It was written within the context of the author being outed as a professor due to political pressure.
Contextually, some Argentinian political history and the author’s background are required, but as a standalone story, it’s a wonderful bit of supernatural horror.
can you link?
I was daydreaming about this recently. Assuming the content wouldn’t be removed or suppressed (it would), what kind of information could be spread of platforms that would make the majority, most or even all people stop wanting to use it?
How do we liberate even the most captured consumers of the most terrible platforms?
Unfortunately, the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
Maybe constant new outrage bait “content” drama has caused people to emulate it in real life at scale unconsciously?
Then hit the law school!
How about no encryption for civil servants?
Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?
This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.
The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.
This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.
This is because they are not self sufficient, at all. They are parasites.
I took an interest in this post and story, which I read, and found that while I appreciate the sentiment, there’s actually a lot of misinformation in the post itself.
Casa Tomada*
Brother and sister*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Tomada
Cortázar was not living abroad in 1946 when this was written. He wasn’t in France until 1951. In 1946, he worked at a university as a professor of French literature in Mendoza, Argentina, and was being outed by political pressure - this is more specifically what the story is probably about.