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  • Exactly this.

    I know how to make all kinds of bombs and illegal weapons and chemical combinations that can harm dozens or hundreds of people.

    I also have credit cards. I could go to a gun show in an unregulated state and buy all manner of firearms and just walk around shooting people until the cops take me out.

    I don’t do that because I don’t want to do that.

    If I wanted to do that, then I would do it regardless of what knowledge I had.

    You can kill people with a knife. You can poison their food. You can run them over with your car. There’s all manner of ways if you wanted to go and hurt people, you could hurt them.

    Having the knowledge does not incentivize or disincentivize the actor, but making it forbidden knowledge causes it to become tantalizing.



  • It’s kind of like dynamite

    Thanks to Dynamite, we have the Nobel Prize. We’ve been able to achieve amazing works of construction and mining, and have generated probably a hundred trillion dollars in wealth thanks to the power of Dynamite.

    But, people have been killed by dynamite. Dynamite has been used as a weapon. It has been the foundation of grenades and bombs and other methods of war, and probably millions of people have died thanks to dynamite, if not tens of millions.

    As long as you’re using the technology for constructive good purposes, then it is what it is.

    Guns can be used to save lives. They can also be used to take lives. They can be used to protect people. They can be used to harm people. It’s all in the wielder.





  • And if you wanted the story to take a dark turn, Paul Giamatti could have arranged for a woman to sleep with Truman and then steal his semen so that the new Truman would actually be the original Truman’s genetic child, and that could be revealed towards the end of the movie for that one last twist of the knife as they come to the grand conclusion of whether you should escape Plato’s cave when you know the cave exists.


  • If you got today’s Jim Carrey to do a sequel where he’s disenfranchised by the world, where Truman has had his coattails ridden by porn stars and politicians and celebrities all alike, because he’s the most famous man on the planet, until they all got tired of him, and just left him alone in a strange world that he’s completely and totally unprepared for, having been raised in a 1940s nuclear family-esque society his entire life…

    Then Christoph’s successor, Paul Giamati, comes and finds him in a bar one night and says, we’re doing the Truman Show again. Do you want to come back and be the new Truman’s father?

    The whole show comes from Truman getting to re-experience everything that he went through from the other side, and figuring out how to rationalize that and make the best of the situation as he guides his child and protege through life in the Truman Show universe with Elan, then it could be a very good movie.

    There’s a lot of allegory that it could rely on as well, Plato’s allegory of the cave, what it would mean to go back in the cave once you’ve seen the light outside, what it would mean to intentionally be an actor, creating a false reality for an innocent person to experience.

    And what would happen if the new Truman, at the age of 19 or 21, suddenly realizes the truth of the situation, and everything goes off the rails again, and the original Truman is forced to decide whether to help his protégé either escape the show, and go through the same experiences that he had gone through outside of the dome, or to somehow convince him to stay, because now, with 30 years of experience, the original Truman knows better.

    It could also play on the idea of older people with more experience knowing things that younger people do not, even though the younger people feel right and true and convicted of their convictions.

    In short, I’m saying it might be worth a try. It just depends on the quality of the writers and the vision of the story.



  • I get like that when my blood pressure drops very low, but I have abnormally low blood pressure unless I take insane amounts of salt to counterbalance that.

    Next time it happens, try tensing your abs. That will raise your blood pressure, and if it counteracts your blurring out, then it might be a blood pressure issue, instead of some sort of traumatic brain injury, like you’re afraid of.