>>Everything except for the record that breaks the record player. They cannot coopt and profit from things which are destructive to capitalism itself. <<
Actually now that I think of it...might there be a way to hack a society where you disguise the record long enough for most people to pick it up, and then it activates? Examples:
- cell phones, so useful that even the most privacy-minded people don't complain about carrying around a tracking chip and recorder on our persons
- Christianity in Ancient Rome, where people kept getting arrested and converting the guards
for a fictional example, wouldn't this have been the logical conclusion of the Yeerk invasion in Animorphs? I mean, you drop a bunch of body-snatching soldiers from a culture that makes the Soviet Bloc look cheerful into 1990's America with all the emphasis on freedom and personal indulgence, and a bunch of them are going to want to party it up. Also factor in that the mind-to-mind connection of the body snatching and the need for a stealthy invasion (which requires pretending to be a member of the local culture)...I am surprised there were not more attempted defections. Plus, at least in some cases, the human host might actually befriend the Yeerk (there are two examples in the books but there would have had to be more.)
I'd actually like to see that story: "Yeah, so, y'all don't need to blow up the planet. We already stopped the alien invasion with TV and pot brownies." And then you invite the Andalites to the barbecue and watch them flip out over chocolate and barbecue sauce.
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Date: 2023-09-05 08:25 pm (UTC)Actually now that I think of it...might there be a way to hack a society where you disguise the record long enough for most people to pick it up, and then it activates? Examples:
- cell phones, so useful that even the most privacy-minded people don't complain about carrying around a tracking chip and recorder on our persons
- Christianity in Ancient Rome, where people kept getting arrested and converting the guards
for a fictional example, wouldn't this have been the logical conclusion of the Yeerk invasion in Animorphs? I mean, you drop a bunch of body-snatching soldiers from a culture that makes the Soviet Bloc look cheerful into 1990's America with all the emphasis on freedom and personal indulgence, and a bunch of them are going to want to party it up. Also factor in that the mind-to-mind connection of the body snatching and the need for a stealthy invasion (which requires pretending to be a member of the local culture)...I am surprised there were not more attempted defections. Plus, at least in some cases, the human host might actually befriend the Yeerk (there are two examples in the books but there would have had to be more.)
I'd actually like to see that story: "Yeah, so, y'all don't need to blow up the planet. We already stopped the alien invasion with TV and pot brownies." And then you invite the Andalites to the barbecue and watch them flip out over chocolate and barbecue sauce.