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By: They Live « The Tar Pit

They Live « The Tar Pit — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:07:07 +0000

[...] b. leaving aside the poor artistic representation, it gets it somewhat, and in a deeper sense than other dystopias managed to. And also, I confess, because I enjoy the red-pilled [...]

By: Squid Game « The Tar Pit

Squid Game « The Tar Pit — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:01:18 +0000

[...] how I've got a few of similar items on my blog: there's Brazil, Player Piano or We, for example. They all follow the same recipe, namely that at the end of the day the hero's journey [...]

By: Life during the time of covid the Great « The Tar Pit

Life during the time of covid the Great « The Tar Pit — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:59:40 +0000

[...] homes for a good while", is that how the story goes? What words will your kids read looking at the mother-state-issued pieces of paper labeled "history book"? I for one am convinced that "the time of covid the [...]

By: Brazil « The Tar Pit

Brazil « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:16:39 +0000

[...] seemingly paradoxically, makes it your average dystopia, as previously described by authors such as Zamyatin, Huxley, Orwell, Burgess, Vonnegut, Dick, Kafka and many others. So what's so special about it, [...]

By: A declaration of war on the HTTP of Shit « The Tar Pit

A declaration of war on the HTTP of Shit « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:51:34 +0000

[...] give? Or let's say Alice and Bob's keys are generated by the Department of Key Generation in the Socialist United State: this reduces to PKI, which reduces Alice and Bob to cattle, but what formal guarantees does this [...]

By: Let's find out why most educational institutions yield graduates that make dumb (or otherwise unknowledgeable) people « The Tar Pit

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:39:58 +0000

[...] roots, where course matters in humanities consisted mostly of useless Marxist shit dictated by the Well-Doer, while the rather difficult matter in sciences was dictated by Party politics in order to raise [...]

By: Freedom is Slavery, or how and why everything costs « The Tar Pit

Freedom is Slavery, or how and why everything costs « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:28:57 +0000

[...] have a right when some controlling entity such as the State allows you to do stuff. So for example We tells the story of a place where people have no freedoms, but they do have certain rights, such as [...]