Ender’s Game- E’ving Obvious - Twin Fake
Posted in Let’s recall an old article, and some book recommendations. Starting with Ender’s Game, an important blue print.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor Books): Ender Wiggin battles it out with the Formics in this Hugo-Award-winning novel that is perhaps the quintessential guide for the new blogging metaphor. Pay special attention to Peter and Valentine as they control the nets through alternate personas. Make special note of the protagonist’s psychological development and monitoring by the “Mind Fantasy Game.”
…”they control the nets through alternate personas”…pretty bold.
- Identity Case One: involving a fake Google Project Manager promising an Apple scoop.
- Identity Case Two A fellow incredibly pulls off months of being a fake Steve Jobs, going as far as creating a unique pysche during the narrative and nicknames for Gates and Google Execs. Sad it will go…or will it? Fortuanately we have the “real” Steve Jobs hanging with us at Twitter- and RL Steve Jobs has no interest in the fake steve- kind of old school.
While fleeting examples this is important. The first didn’t get far, the second- did “something” and this goes on all over. Not trite little message board posts, but on far grander scales. Remember, unless identity is authenticated, you really don’t know.
Blue prints are guides…I wrote about the Ender’s Game blogging metaphor at Revenews long ago, and one person had even keener observations into Ender Wiggen, note our thoughts are in parrallel and we never knew each other. He found me, by paying attention to the same details, same instinct, and went even further with a keen eye. So people are paying attention…You must battle the many distractions…you will have to earn it. A little attention can go a long way and quality counts, but quality is RELATIVE.
I know some of you have written in asking what the hell this means… and one person offering an interpretation (Send Them in). Yes it is intentionally charged and loaded with symbols and memes from very minute details to big strokes. Some I didn’t realize until after I put it together (subconsciously?) and others that well- it is so Ev’ing Obvious…
What does it mean for you?
What could it mean to you?
Pay attention if it intrigues you because in some cases every detail is important and while I am no artist you should be able to get major themes. This is good- it helps you think- it helps me think.
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Ender’s Game is great. Another point, Valentine and Peter engage dueling mock personas. They don’t just impersonate one person they impersonate both and then debate with each other (and if I remember right at some point one debates the mock personas against each other by themselves). Though maybe this stuff takes place in Speaker for the Dead.
And that effort is not to have the mock personas win or lose directly but rather through the public debate shape the way real people think and view issues in a way that Val and especially Peter want.