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Did you like Antimemetics Division? I saw the Short video with Jasika Nicole (Astrid from Fringe), and it felt like a mix between bad sci fi that took itself too seriously and a dumb joke.
I did like the book, it's not a 10/10, but it's fun and I like weird fiction. I think both SCP and the Remedy Connected Universe are delightfully mysterious.
I hadn't watched that short yet, just did. I see what you mean, but it was relatively true to the first chapter of the book. It's really had to do this genre justice in video form I think. Partly due to budget, but partly because what you didn't like about it is a perfect description of the entire SCP universe: a giant, very serious conspiracy theory that fans swear is completely true and "THEY" don't want you to know about it...while obviously being a absurd work of fiction. It's like 80s horror, you have to embrace the campiness to enjoy it.
The notion of an anti-meme is interesting to think about too. Not really in a supernatural sense, but in a sociological/anthropological one. Are there things in this world that people have trouble wrapping their head around, things we can't seem to pin down and understand and assign an easy-to-proliferate name to, but nonetheless hurt us?
Demon Haunted World is very timely
Always has been :(
I had put off reading it because I assumed it would be mostly preaching to the choir, but there are some challenging chapters to think about.
Ex. the idea that all the people who believe in aliens, and reject vaccines, and wear tinfoil hats, they're all doing the first step of science: which is to doubt. The problem is that people are generally untrained on what to do next.
The question is whether this modern era of science is an anomaly, or if there's something about the scientific method that gives it an advantage. If we fell completely into a dark age, is it inevitable that we find our way back? Or was this time period just a fluke?
It notes that throughout history, the dominant nation has always been the one who wields science most effectively. And the US wouldn't be the first to fall because it failed to.