Defoe's eighteenth century classic tells of a young man who leaves home on a sea-borne adventure that sees him overtaken by pirates, kept as a slave, and eventually marooned for decades on a desert island.
A tale of survival, spirituality, and self-reliance amidst the cruelest elements of nature and humanity.
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Every Reality Show Ever
Season after endless grueling season, groups of self-important, horny arrogant brats fight to stay alive in dumbass competitions for the love of money. Yes, money. They don’t really give a damn about the bachelor/bachelorette. They just want to get laid - and to win.
By Cathy holmes2 years ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH7 days ago in Critique
Angry People Click More: The Economics of Manufactured Dissent
(Ideas from the book The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent, Routledge, 2024) Abstract This article examines the formula ‘angry people click more’ as a core logic of contemporary online media and as a structural transformation of propaganda in the digital age. It argues that the defining feature of the current attention economy is not only the circulation of misinformation, but the systematic deployment of openly implausible claims designed to provoke moral outrage and sustain profitable engagement cycles. The analysis links Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year ‘rage bait’ to earlier lexical markers of epistemic crisis such as ‘truthiness’ and ‘post-truth’, and situates this trajectory against the older ‘manufacture of consent’ model of Herman and Chomsky. While classical propaganda in totalitarian and mass-media systems sought ideological unity through censorship and the Big Lie, the emerging Propaganda 2.0 model, articulated by Peter Ayolov, monetises anger by manufacturing dissent and deliberately populating the public sphere with absurd, polarising narratives. The article interprets this dynamic through the allegories of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and Václav Havel’s greengrocer, showing how the move from fearful silence to permanent online rage changes both the psychology and political economy of propaganda. Drawing on Evgeny Morozov’s critique of fake-news moral panics, Frances Haugen’s disclosures about Facebook, and the documentary The Social Dilemma, it concludes that anger has become a tradable asset and that blatant lying has shifted from an authoritarian instrument of control to a market mechanism in a global ‘free trade in slogans’.
By Peter Ayolov5 days ago in Critique
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A wonderful critique. You managed to incorporate the themes so well. This book messed me up when I first read it. I was not really a fan, lol.
What did you think of it? 😁
Perfectly done.
Spot on!
Really nice summary and critique! Nicely done!
Great critique...!
Cliff notes of the cliff notes. Well done.
Concise Synopsis , well done
Haven’t read this one yet, but good work. 😊
I can't recall if I actually read the book or if I just know the events that happen 😅 This was an excellent review!
Wonderful work!
Fantastic 💯❤️📝👌
Well done!
Bravo!!! Your critique is fabulous, my friend!!!❤️❤️💕
Thank you. I haven't read that one. I must check it out.
Great critique on on a great book! My favorite Defoe is Roxanne.
Very insightful :) I love this book!
Very Good Work!! 😊💕
Definitely one of the best critiques I've read, Cathy.
Nice summation!
Honestly, this is a really great description in so few words. Great job.
Haven't Seen this, But Great Job on This Critique❤️💯👌🎬😉😊
Love this novel. Just reread it last month.