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Why is it a “red flag” if someone’s favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye?
- dqpb 5y agoIf you train a transformer (ala GPT3) on narrative content specific to a niche community, I suspect you could generate manifesto-like narrative canons that strongly resonate with members of the community. A kind of “flag generator”.
- lsllc 5y agoInterestingly the writer of Richard Donner's 1997 movie "Conspiracy Theory" [0] used the book "Catcher in the Rye" as a plot device. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/movies/sure-he-s-paranoid-and-with-good-reason.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/movies/sure-he-s-paranoid...
- 1MachineElf 5y agoIt's also a tiny plot device in the main story of first season of the Ghost In The Shell animated series, Stand Alone Complex.
- jeffwass 5y agoWill Smith’s captivating monologue on Catcher in the Rye from the 1993 movie Six Degrees of Separation, itself originally a play from 1990 : https://youtu.be/CRrs_X4OUkU https://youtu.be/CRrs_X4OUkU
- nonameiguess 5y agoThat's pretty interesting and not the answer I was expecting (spoiler: some consider it a red flag because high-profile criminals suffering from mental delusions claimed to identify strongly with Catcher in the Rye). I was expecting it's a well-known "canon classic" but accessible enough that students likely actually read it instead of relying on Cliff's Notes or whatever replacement for those kids these days use. Thus, someone calling it their favorite is a red flag it's the only non-pulp mass media novel they've ever read.
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