Comments on: “Check out the movie Mad Max, only imagine it hotter” http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/ Science served wet and salty Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miriam Goldstein http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/#comment-487 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:50:30 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/#comment-487 Danny: I appreciate your enthusiam for polar cities, but posting the same post three times smacks of spam. I have deleted the other two.

Re: Mad Max – that movie is not so appealing if you were Mel Gibson’s wife and child. I’m unduly attached to not being raped or killed at whim. I like civilization, because in a society where might makes right, women don’t have a very nice life.

]]> By: Danny Bloom http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/#comment-480 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:38:55 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/#comment-480 Said another poster: “What’s the problem with Mad Max? I’m totally for “Sound the alarms.” But the Mad Max future was kind of, ahem, cool. Many of the characters it brought out were more appealing – on both the good and not-good sides of the ledger – than those who currently fill our public life. Those movies are more celebratory than cautionary, more about humanity finally coming through even in what, roughly outlined, should be the direst circumstances.

This is a note on rhetoric. Saying “Mad Max” may put a scare into some, as intended. But to many others that’s not the worst of possible futures – and to those less favored in our current socio-economic order, even has appeal.”

]]> By: Danny Bloom http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/#comment-475 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:41:29 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/12/31/check-out-the-movie-mad-max-only-imagine-it-hotter/#comment-475 Apoca-lit, yes. Good post, sir. Have you heard or seen my polar cities blog. Look here or google the term “polar cities” . Maybe blog about the idea, pro or con, later, with images from website? Permission granted. DANNY

said one MSM reporter who declimed to interview me for two reasons: to wit:

Danny -

You’re correct about the local angle. But even if you were local, the
main reason for not doing a story is that your idea hasn’t passed a
“seriousness” test – that is, being taken seriously by someone who could
place it on a path to fruition.

Cheers,

MSM reporter

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