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The redemption of HAL-9000 in 2010 makes textual sense because the computer's psychosis was explicitly described in the book tie-in to 2001. Kubrick, however, wanted to emphasize HAL's megadeath contamination by the power elite. It's power that pissed me off, too. Hyams was conscious of how the computopians were swinging their dicks around because it was Their Turn. No good for us since we can't go off fossil fuels. We're more like the 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦́𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦 today and don't know nuthin' about such transitions. Spoiled rotten.

But don't get me started on Marxism. Xitter has resurrected him. The Russkie mindset has this odd obsession with finding the Key to the Universe. Their trouble starts with disagreeing about what that One Key is. After the murder and mayhem, it was the theory of surplus value from labor. This is why their products are so brutal and shabby. My ex really loved the spaceship in 2010. I think she was a contrarian.
Mao's zeal to prevent any vested interests from emerging was what made him a vested interest himself. He wanted to institutionalize the Cultural Revolution. It was part of his Immortality Project. (We all have one!) Out of the hugger-mugger came the good sense to imitate the East Asian developmental state model. Japan? South Korea? Vietnam, for Godsake?? Or was it a combination of Rostow and Carey? It'll be fun to find out.
Or was it Veblen? He was influenced by Pragmaticism. Deming took this to Japan, which is how it kicked our ass until the Money Power put a noose on its nads. Japan is retaliating by killing whales. Symbolic nationalism.
Perverse how the Goncourt Bros adored the 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦́𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦 while hating the emerging middle class. Napoleon III was completing Bonny's work. The first Napoleon finished the French Revolution by giving France its long-lost never-born national sovereignty, still mired in medieval survivals. III reared back and let the bourgies industrialize France. Meanwhile Victor Duruy completed his interesting book about the Middle Ages, a study in power and when it petrifies into a vested interest.

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