Notes from the Wired
This is a website where I write articles on various topics that interest me, carving out a bit of cyberspace for myself.
You shouldn't believe anything I talk about — I use words entirely recreationally.
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Aug. 29
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Gangster movie set in England in the 1980s. It was alright; there was nothing that really annoyed me. The heavy use of music in the first 10 minutes was interesting—in a film nowadays, this probably would have been much more suppressed. But besides that, the reason why I wouldn’t rank it any higher, there was nothing that really excited me about the movie. 6/10.
Aug. 28
Player of Game
I liked this way more than the previous book in the series. I liked the narrative, the story, and the setting—all very fun. But I do wonder what the bigger theme or overarching point of the book was supposed to be. Why did the drone show the protagonist those torture videos? What changed because of that? Why was the protagonist participating in these hunts and then the kills were described in such a cruel way, as if the protagonist was participating in something negative, but then it results in no charcter change? The empire is also really stereotypical: “Oh yeah, we like torturing people. Why? Because it’s fun. We are so evil, muahahaha.”
Aug. 26
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
Can be read as an introduction to idealism, which, alongside empiricism and rationalism, was one of the major philosophical debates from the 17th to the 19th century.
