just finished reading Red Rising, ty @PrinceVogel I think for the recc
its a YA novel about a kid who goes to battle school. so its got the same basic structure as Ender's Game, that one with Jennifer Lawrence, harry potter etc
well executed, tightly plotted if not literary
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anyway fun book check it out if your into this sort of thing
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one problem is that these books ~never actually grapple with temptation even when they make a big deal talking about it they don't ever show a situation where the hero faces actually difficult temptation
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e.g. Harry Potter -- characters go on about "the choice between what is right and what is easy", but conveniently, the hero is always 100% forced by circumstance to go with "right" -- he never has the option of surrendering and letting evil happen to others
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this is my thing with all media like, star wars fans watch star wars and then live their lives like the force is not with them so many games, tv shows, books, the message is so clear. fckn... odysseus. artists have been trying to tell us for millenniahttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1399347822516871176 …
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Every art movement for the past 150 years has been in reaction to and resistance of the soul-crushing nature of industrialized society, until it is co-opted by industry and the cycle begins anew without alteration.
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idk parenting has resurfaced my memories of a lot of kid fiction that yells at adults and mostly has made me reflect on them as "lol that is fun fiction for kids but also the actual thesis is stupid"
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eg the common idea of "wow the adults sure fucked up the world so why not let the kids have a shot?" it works solely as a rhetorical device it does not survive scrutiny or, especially, exposure to the issues https://twitter.com/lizzzzardly/status/1429862928916881411 …
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In my opinion Consider the idea that people are hanging on by their fingernails to hope. It's a similar thing wrt to religion - why don't the ideals "stick"? Because there are countervailing forces
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I'm sensitive in this area because I have a Pretty Good Idea where my heart would be at if I'd never been exposed to the ideals we're talking about. And absolutely nobody - no adult anyway - would have been like "he needed more love in his life and stories could have done that"
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