Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”

Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ... by _carbyau_ on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:39PM (#26059572)

Wow.

I haven't even read 3bp but it surprises me that even a significant amount of praise/charity for the CCP is an issue.

There is so much glorification of the US Government in so many Hollywood movies it has simply become a thing to filter out. When I do read it, I expect this will hit the same filter.

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Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ... by webmaven on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:26PM (#26060783)

> There is so much glorification of the US Government in so many Hollywood movies it has simply become a thing to filter out.

There is almost as much vilification of the USG as there is glorification.

For example, a stereotypical USG Agent Gone Rogue character can just as easily be the hero as the villain in a Hollywood blockbuster (with the rest of the agency, or at least it's leadership, serving as the opposing villain or hero as needed). I don't know enough about Chinese cinema to say for certain whether the equivalent is true in that context, but the superficial impression I have is that it is not.

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Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ... by free_rms on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:48PM (#26060897)

In the book we're discussing, the Cultural Revolution is presented as a catastrophe where the heroes are well-meaning scientists who's neutral observations of nature are twisted into being counter-revolutionary.

The book covers the Cultural Revolution like US films cover Vietnam: not favorably.

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Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ... by cambalache on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:17PM (#26060377)

"Do what I say not what I do" is a universal mantra, very common of course here in HN.

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