The Social Network by Aaron Sorkin -the creator of Charlie Wilson’s War and other great motion pictures, reviewed on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link. - 9 out of 10

 

The Social Network by Aaron Sorkin -the creator of Charlie Wilson’s War and other great motion pictures, reviewed on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.

 

9 out of 10

 

This was not just an entertaining movie, it works as an educational material as well, both in terms of what we should do to be successful, and what needs to be avoided, a lesson in what not to do, and how unlikeable tycoons can be

 

It will be a subjective note, so you could, maybe should stop right here, for I am really angry with Zuckerberg and hence, I will try and push him to the floor, the mosquito trying to get at the elephant or hippopotamus

 

-          The boss of Facebook has decided to bend the knee in front of Orange Jesus

 

He is not alone, alas, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires feel they have to gain from being servile to this ridiculous buffoon, contributing millions to his inauguration, attending this disgraceful event, and humiliating themselves for riches

It does not take more than the blink of an eye https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html to see what this Orange Jesus is, a con artist and a symbol of how little humanity has progressed

 

-          If this is the leader of the free world, I am sorry, but we are fucked

 

It does not have to be all that calamitous, even if nothing ‘really catastrophic’ happens, the mere fact that the ‘greatest democracy’ in the world elects the epitome of fraud, stupidity, braggadocio, self-aggrandizing

 

-          It is an omen

 

To say a few words about The Social Network, with hindsight, we can look at what Zuckerberg did and have the seeds for what he shows now – callousness, greediness and abjection, at least in my mind, albeit I am subjective

Nexus https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/nexus-by-yuval-harari-one-of-greatest.html is a phenomenal book by Yuval Harari, and among the many things you discover in this fabulous work, you have a look at

 

-          Facebook

 

They have algorithms that are meant to encourage engagement, they want people to spend as much time as possible online, and on their platform in particular, so the Artificial Intelligence is working to get results

The trouble is that a mild post does not get people excited – there are some conditions for Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html - users want violence, hatred

 

Thus, in Myanmar, where Facebook is seen as the internet itself, hateful posts have been shared and the algorithms promoted them exponentially, with the result that many were killed there, in part because of the gentle

 

-          Mark Zuckerberg

 

Another country where Facebook has had a major impact is Brazil, where Bolsonaro came from an almost unknown figure to the one who became president, and then spread his cocktail of lies, conspiracy theories

He is a replica of Orange Jesus and far right leaders are emerging to take power in various parts of the world, including the European Union, places like Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Austria most recently and maybe even here

 

We have had our very own idiot, a smaller Trump, who came top at the recent presidential elections, pushed up by TikTok, and illegal intervention from Russia, so the elections have been annulled, and hopefully, this fool will be disqualified

 

-          He had a series of diatonic claims, such as ‘Pepsi has nanochips’

 

Still, because of this misinformation, the fact that so many are stupid, and choose the likes of the Orange Clown and copycats, makes it a perilous time to live in, look at what the leader of the free world did just lately https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-look-at-charlie-wilsons-war.html

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.html  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

 

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