mekka okereke 1d ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116290338892571761

🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind.

Why is everything like this?

The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why?

Why was that necessary?

Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@mekkaokereke I guess it was important to show people that even though it resembles a great story it just has no depth, the author has no spine, and he lacks the intellectual ability to live in the present moment.
Show threadDana Fried
@wronglang @mekkaokereke that sounds like he's fucking with the interviewer, but maybe I'm giving him too much credit.
Mar 28 at 1:19pmWeb
Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@tess @mekkaokereke I mean there's many ways to read it and I read the transcript rather than listening to the interview, but he seems to be really into the interviewer, so I'm getting fawning vibe
Show threadmekka okereke 1d ago

@tess @wronglang

I wish that were true. It's not, but I wish it was.

Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@mekkaokereke @tess I'm ok with mourning this loss and moving on. It's become such a common pattern and I hope he doesn't go full jk Rowling but that's up to him.
Show threadDana Fried1d ago
@mekkaokereke @wronglang it's wild. What self-respecting author would ever say, "No I don't use themes or symbolism. I don't think about what I'm writing at all."
Show threadargonaut1d ago
@tess @wronglang @mekkaokereke perhaps i worked too long in advertisement, and i’ve seen too many AI responses, but that to me is textbook promotion-savvy sycophancy: take the point and explode it using as much formulaic bromide to support it, flood-the-field-style.
Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@argonaut @tess @mekkaokereke I'm not sure I understand this, would you mind clarifying a bit?
Show threadargonaut1d ago

@wronglang @tess @mekkaokereke
interviewer: “you dont shove identity politics into it”

interviewee: “yes, i think like you (identity matching), i don’t shove politics (confirmation), or meaning (widening), or symbolism (broadening), or politics (again), or symbolism (again), i add *nothing* (full escape) but pure banality.

Show threadargonaut1d ago
@wronglang @tess @mekkaokereke
(now compare to a culpable person asked if they’re culpable and you’ll find similarities in the amount of “not culpable, really, swear it, would never do it, like at all” explanation they’ll go into)
Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@argonaut @tess @mekkaokereke thank you! Yeah I see that.. I think the downside is as an author you have to live with the words you put into the world so that's why it's getting a negative reaction here.