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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      And the unfortunate implications of who Scrooge ended up becoming That because he was forced to live a life where all his emotional support and validation was internal, abstract, imaginary relationships he made up in his head It set up that cute kid to evolve into Old Scrooge

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      That's what Scrooge is actually about, is someone who's become untethered from real life, from what actually matters He lives in a world of abstractions, powered by his own imagination, and as his own power of imagination fails as he ages that world collapses into a black hole

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      The same superpower of imagination that allowed him to blot out his shitty school dorm and replace it with a world of fantasy adventure is the *same* power that lets him ignore a beautiful woman in love with him as being less real and relevant than a number on a bank statement

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      It feels... very, very relevant to a world that is increasingly mediated by technology and defined by fiction *glances at wackjob Bitcoin fanboys and other get-rich-quick schemes' overlap with weird cloistered nerd culture*

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      But, you know, even dropping the political angle That first scene tells you all you really need to know about who Scrooge is Someone who spent his most vulnerable years developing a coping mechanism for being alone "I'm fine, I don't need anyone, I can take care of myself"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      And over time that shit if left unexamined and un-dealt-with mutates and festers "I don't need anyone" becomes "I don't WANT anyone" "I can take care of myself" becomes "I MUST take care of myself"

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      If I were gonna do my own modernized adaptation of the story I'd make Scrooge a Gen X latchkey kid from the '80s One of those nerdy, lonely kids whose first love was his NES and his Apple IIc his neglectful parents got him to keep him out of their hair

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      I'd go meta with it, like he gets defensive when he sees Christmas Past has brought him back to his childhood home "What do you think you're gonna show me? Mom and Dad never came home from the office, jocks shoved me into lockers at school, girls made fun of my braces?"

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      "I know that I've dealt with it I'm over it, it has nothing to do with me anymore" And the Ghost just shrugs and says, "That's not your past, Ben, this is your past" And just shows this time-lapse of Young Scrooge up till 2 am playing video games

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    10. Winter Maiden  😷‏ @Winter_Maiden 28 Dec 2020
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      Except for the video game, this is a lot like Bill Murray's Scrooge, although I never before really connected his identification with TV shows to the book's invocation of Ali Baba.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020
      Replying to @Winter_Maiden

      Right, Bill Murray was a Boomer who was in his prime in the '80s, so I'm pushing us forward another generation

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