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Carefully structured and informative documentary on TK including a segment with Gelernter: THE NET (Daz Net) (2003) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0434231/ https:

by _wire_ 8mo ago

Carefully structured and informative documentary on TK including a segment with Gelernter: THE NET (Daz Net) (2003) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0434231/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0434231/ Summary from iMDB: //Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck's THE NET explores the complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber.// YT link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU

_wire_ 8mo ago
The Epstein scandal is being managed to create a state of hysteria, which chaos seems to be serving Trump by impugning so many others that his culpability disappears into the noise.
- red-iron-pine 8mo ago
  nah. everyone continues to know how bad he is. the revelations are that there are so many other terrible people in that circle including ones we didn't know or didn't suspect. and it's clear there is far, far more damning stuff about Trump yet to be leaked.
  - _wire_ 8mo ago
    Everyone has somehow forgotten Hugh Hefner and Playboy being a cultural and business masthead in a media empire built on the same principles of fetish and control as Epstein's little Deutchnyland. Where did Epstein learn his ways? The term "survivor" is generously espoused when remarking on "victims" of Epstein's network in the midst of 500 years of an enormous overwhelming elite class war, which at this moment in history is manifesting, again, via enormous funding for centralized domestic policy of jackbooting and human trafficking capping a foreign policy of literally blowing people up to preserve narrow ideological and monied interests. By every measure, Epstein was a modern, well-loved and accepted central figure in the business network that manifests in policy of wrecking lives and we all take pride in this network. The Epstein outrage might be understood as justice if it were in any way related to these larger abuse networks, but it cannot be understood this way. It's instead sequestered to an Epstein-island of hysteria that's being carefully managed by the same policy makers and media complex that runs the war networks. Even when we denounce Epstein we're still taking pride in this system. The needed awareness of this could not be closer to home than here at YC, but like Chomsky, everyone thinks s/he is above and beyond the horror.

by _wire_ 8mo ago

_wire_ 8mo ago

The Epstein scandal is being managed to create a state of hysteria, which chaos seems to be serving Trump by impugning so many others that his culpability disappears into the noise.

red-iron-pine 8mo ago
nah. everyone continues to know how bad he is. the revelations are that there are so many other terrible people in that circle including ones we didn't know or didn't suspect. and it's clear there is far, far more damning stuff about Trump yet to be leaked.
- _wire_ 8mo ago
  Everyone has somehow forgotten Hugh Hefner and Playboy being a cultural and business masthead in a media empire built on the same principles of fetish and control as Epstein's little Deutchnyland. Where did Epstein learn his ways? The term "survivor" is generously espoused when remarking on "victims" of Epstein's network in the midst of 500 years of an enormous overwhelming elite class war, which at this moment in history is manifesting, again, via enormous funding for centralized domestic policy of jackbooting and human trafficking capping a foreign policy of literally blowing people up to preserve narrow ideological and monied interests. By every measure, Epstein was a modern, well-loved and accepted central figure in the business network that manifests in policy of wrecking lives and we all take pride in this network. The Epstein outrage might be understood as justice if it were in any way related to these larger abuse networks, but it cannot be understood this way. It's instead sequestered to an Epstein-island of hysteria that's being carefully managed by the same policy makers and media complex that runs the war networks. Even when we denounce Epstein we're still taking pride in this system. The needed awareness of this could not be closer to home than here at YC, but like Chomsky, everyone thinks s/he is above and beyond the horror.