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The irony that a UK `spy agency` is hosting with a foreign provider born out of selling books like "The Catcher in the Rye" is a level of humour nobody expected

by Zenst 5y ago

The irony that a UK `spy agency` is hosting with a foreign provider born out of selling books like "The Catcher in the Rye" is a level of humour nobody expected.

etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
The UK considers the USA a strong ally in intelligence and doesn't view it as a threat.
- secondaryacct 5y ago
  They aren't losing the game, they don't even know they're playing it.
- yonaguska 5y ago
  Ironically, it was UK (former) intelligence, not Russians, that had the most impactful attempts at meddling with our 2016 elections. See...Christopher Steele.
daniel-cussen 5y ago
"The Catcher in the Rye" is a terrible, harmful book. I have no pretenses that that book is the romantic, rebellious, subversive story it pretends to be. What it is, is a stereotype cartoon of being mad (this is the proper, polite term, euphemisms like "mentally unwell" are insulting). The outcome, is when you hear about a patient with a disagreement with his psychiatrist, you always take sides against the patient. So that you never accept the testimony of that patient. The moral of the story of "the Catcher in the Rye" is contempt. Readers of that book treat any imperfection in your mental health---for instance, side effects of a pill a patient is taking against their will, such as temporary brain damage, which can easily make said patient seem off kilter---as a plot twist, like "oh, he's not 100% sane like I am, it's like in the Catcher in the Rye, my favorite book, in the end you find out it was all lies, and that's what this is." Factually, in the Middle Ages, fools (the mad) were considered more truthful, and their testimony more reliable, than that of the sane. Recall the saying, "only a fool can speak the truth in court." In part this is because they had a harder time keeping their lies consistent, so they had to just tell the truth. I would burn "the Catcher in the Rye."

by Zenst 5y ago

The irony that a UK `spy agency` is hosting with a foreign provider born out of selling books like "The Catcher in the Rye" is a level of humour nobody expected.

etaioinshrdlu 5y ago

The UK considers the USA a strong ally in intelligence and doesn't view it as a threat.

secondaryacct 5y ago
They aren't losing the game, they don't even know they're playing it.
yonaguska 5y ago
Ironically, it was UK (former) intelligence, not Russians, that had the most impactful attempts at meddling with our 2016 elections. See...Christopher Steele.

daniel-cussen 5y ago

"The Catcher in the Rye" is a terrible, harmful book. I have no pretenses that that book is the romantic, rebellious, subversive story it pretends to be. What it is, is a stereotype cartoon of being mad (this is the proper, polite term, euphemisms like "mentally unwell" are insulting). The outcome, is when you hear about a patient with a disagreement with his psychiatrist, you always take sides against the patient. So that you never accept the testimony of that patient. The moral of the story of "the Catcher in the Rye" is contempt. Readers of that book treat any imperfection in your mental health---for instance, side effects of a pill a patient is taking against their will, such as temporary brain damage, which can easily make said patient seem off kilter---as a plot twist, like "oh, he's not 100% sane like I am, it's like in the Catcher in the Rye, my favorite book, in the end you find out it was all lies, and that's what this is." Factually, in the Middle Ages, fools (the mad) were considered more truthful, and their testimony more reliable, than that of the sane. Recall the saying, "only a fool can speak the truth in court." In part this is because they had a harder time keeping their lies consistent, so they had to just tell the truth. I would burn "the Catcher in the Rye."