Recent Media Diet: Breakfast Of The Champions, In Addition To The Messiah

Breakfast of the champions

I similar Ted Chiang picked upward this costless volition together with fate subject together with does beautiful plow over off this.)

Somehow this book, the Cixin Liu's terminal book, Death's End, of the Three Body Problem trilogy.

Kurt Vonnegut deals alongside real nighttime content inwards this book. An underlying subject is over again costless will, but this fourth dimension woven roughly the "human condition" together with misery. His lite style makes this darker... He weaponizes satire together with sarcasm real effectively. He drops a duo references to how meaningless is life causally together with moves on alongside his sarcastic freestyle writing. He drops a rape reference causally, together with moves on. That is cruel. That is many times to a greater extent than brutal than discussing these longer together with acknowledging their existent weight. The agency he makes passing remarks of injustice, bad, pain... is real depressing.

The writing inwards Breakfast of the Champions got every bit good heavy for me real quickly.  I couldn't complete the audiobook. I gave it up, but over again picked upward after a week, because his writing is genuinely good. He is a master copy of words. But peradventure his books should come upward alongside trigger warnings for people who are prone to low together with suicidal thoughts.

The Messiah (with a spoiler at the real end)

I don't sentinel real picayune TV or Netflix. Last matter I watched was The Good Place (highly recommend it!). I yell upward I came across The Messiah inwards a Netflix preview, together with had fourth dimension to kill, hence watched the get-go episode. But together with then I kept watching together with binged through the present inwards 2 days. Crazy...

I liked it a lot. It is a real engaging show. The primary lesson from the present is that it is tardily to manipulate people. We are real gullible, together with the arrangement nosotros built, called the modern world, is genuinely quite fragile, together with things tin give the axe accept a olfactory organ dive quickly.

The agency things are going these days, alongside interesting/upset elections, style to motion towards totalitarianism inwards many countries, increased friction inwards Middle East, viruses, marketplace position crashes, all it takes to brand things unstable is some data warfare together with psychological operations. If yous tin give the axe convince people of an apocalyptic future, yous tin give the axe manipulate them.

I am peculiarly concerned virtually this alongside the prevalence of social media manipulation. Disinformation operations are real. Many social media strategists together with bots manipulate tidings together with perceptions skillfully, together with not-so-skillfully. people larn radicalized on the web, aided past times the click charge per unit of measurement maximizing algorithms feedback.

Lerner also divides psychological warfare operations into 3 categories: 

1. White propaganda (Omissions together with Emphasis): Truthful together with non strongly biased, where the rootage of data is acknowledged.
2. Grey propaganda (Omissions, Emphasis together with Racial/Ethnic/Religious Bias): Largely truthful, containing no data that tin give the axe survive proven wrong; the rootage is non identified.
3. Black propaganda (Commissions of falsification): Inherently deceitful, data given inwards the production is attributed to a rootage that was non responsible for its creation.

Lerner points out that grayness together with dark operations ultimately possess got a heavy cost, inwards that the target population sooner or after recognizes them every bit propaganda together with discredits the source. 

The finally judgement made me snort. This sounds hence naive now. In my mind, I heard the algorithmic motorcar order "hold my beer, Lerner".


SPOILER virtually the show:

Here is my gauge virtually the show.

The get-go flavor is done. I gauge that inwards the side past times side season, nosotros volition encounter Cibril emerging every bit the existent Messiah. That volition brand a flavor that tin give the axe survive every bit interesting every bit the get-go season.

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