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Wednesday 18 November 2015

Bitcoin and The Hunger Games

My sister, an LA stylist, writes off The Hunger Games as hollywood junk. She might be right, the last movie felt like a bit of filler and did have a distinct lack of face burn. Still I'm looking forward to the final, Mockingjay Part 2.

It is the social concept in the story which I think is inspired. I wonder what Suzanne Collins, author of the original books would think of bitcoin and the prospect of some kind of crypto hyper-community culture in the future. She might find it quite scary.

Mokingjay portrays a world 'Pan America' where districts are enslaved in a communistic way by 'The Capital', a large flamboyant but morally ambivalent city of the future. Though the people of The Capital are rich, money and transactions never seem to feature in their daily lives. Something I think most of us would appreciate.

Could these directors, fluffers and 'Game Makers' be collecting their credits via dogerain? Maybe, you never know what might happen looking at the news and the terrible events in Paris, there is some risk that the world could turn into a kind of Hunger Games like hell. There's got to be a way to make a better world than this. I'll be looking for ideas at the theatre. Hopefully it has a bit more fire than part one.

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