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Harmony------
Liked this quite a bit more than genocial organ, mainly because it isn't as centered in militarly stuff.
The book is a science fiction novel where (simplifying a lot) society basically almost nuked itself out of existence and then some dude went like "hey what if we make sure that doesn't happen again", and created a program that you can inject into your biology to prevent those type of behaviours
that program basically prohibits anything that is dangerous for yourself or for other people, not just stuff like drugs, smoking or drinking. But stuff like watching violent films has been banned. Not only that, but everyone infomation is public to everyone at all times, so, privacy only exists for sex
The novel explores the consequences of watchme existing, there is no morally grey here IMO. WatchMe and the other thing that gets added to the story midway through are like bad, really fucking bad. If you've never really been exposed to pain, you cant develop a tolerance for it.
There is a scene in the book that I really like, this concepts gets repeated a lot of times during the book but this was the part where I really thought about it. Very early in the book, the protagonist is talking about ancient human history (so like current age), and they were talking about the act of knocking the door. How you didn't know who was behind the door. If the person behind the doors says "I am x person", they could just be lying, you have no guarantees. In their current society, due to watchme you always know who is behind the door. And they went like, "damn, how could you even open the door in the past when it could be dangerous?"
all of that is true, hearing someone knock and opening the door is dangerous. It's a fact that someone could just lie, but, how often does that really happen in real life?, while they get the facts right about the act of knocking the door, they completely miss the nuances for it. Yeah, technically speaking, no one is preventing you from going to some strangers house, claim that they're whoever and when they open the door murder them or something. Yet, that doesn't really happen IRL, mainly because there are consequences. You can do it, but we all know that you shouldn't, and even if you did, then you have stuff like the weight of the law, and even if you didn't murder that person, your reputation is important, if you lie, you will be known as a liar
The characters in this novel only know the fact, because those little elements that we take into consideration in our real life are things that they have never been exposed to.
Now, watchme is just a program, a really effective one, but it's not fullproof, you can spoof it and live without it. Not every single human person is under the influence of watchme. If someone doesn't have watchme, and someone else does have it. The person who doesn't have it can exploit the watchme person very easily. That person may have encoded that violence = bad, but that other person may not.
Society wont ever be completely objective, chaos is a part of human nature. All of this is science fiction, but you can extrapolate these ideas to stuff in our current world. We do not live in a vacuum.
Then, the book introduces the idea that the way to fix all those problems, and completely live in harmony (hence the name of the book) is to just delete that part of human nature, delete conciousness. And that is what ends up happening near the end of the book. No conciousness, everyone just follows an objective morality for the rest of time. And I don't think I have to explain why this is a bad thing
I think this is a really good book
Placed in A tier
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hatoful boyfriend ----
I beat this game in like an hour, it's a otome game with pigeons. The game gave you the option to show human portraits but I said fuck it and played the game the way it was intended. I ended up dating a pigeon who resulted to be a ghost and they disappeared by the end. after that I was happy and I closed the game, 10/10
it's a funny meme game, they also say "nobirdie" instead of "nobody" which I think it's pretty funny. I have nothing else to say
placed in c tier because it's kinda funny
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