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   Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 01:33:59 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓

   “You’ve got to get mad!”

   This iconic scene from “Network” is has been relevant every day between the day it was released and today, though it seems even more relevant now.

   Highly recommend the #movie if you have not seen it. It’s excellent and has aged very well.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RujOFCHsxo

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 01:35:22 JST Robert Link

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     @OGjester Like so many iconic moments, this one would be forgotten if not for the end of the flick, which we hide from ourselves by focusing on this iconic moment. Dude was murdered for profit on air, right? Isn't /that/ the point of the movie? Ratings are king, and look what happens when you get "mad as hell"? Your rage will feed their profit.

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     Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:47:05 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral I guess everyone is entitled to their own takeaway. I am simply opposed to not getting mad.

     Robert Link repeated this.
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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:47:31 JST Robert Link

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     @OGjester "22. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant." --Sun Tzu https://www.gutenberg.org/files/132/132-h/132-h.htm

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     Pat (patrascan@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 04:09:28 JST Pat

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     • Robert Link

     @OGjester @phaedral to your point, Jester: my takeaway is that the overarching and most prescient theme in this film was not about getting mad. The main theme warns of the danger of turning straight news reporting into programmed entertainment, complete with giggling talking heads posing as news anchors, Sybil the Soothsayer and her sidekicks. Take a look at TV and other news media today-- I rest my case. Or, I should say, Paddy Chayevsky rests his case.