War and Peace - Critique
“All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky.” - Prince Andrei. Written by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Humans’ search for meaning,
All is futile,
One can’t fight history,
Napoleonic wars,
Chronicling two decades,
Pierre’s profound quest,
Andrei’s heart-breaking demise,
Natasha wanted Boris to kiss her doll - such simpler times,
Yet now a beautiful woman, unlucky in love -
One of the greatest writers that ever lived.
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Grz Colm
Film and TV reviews, 🎞 as well as short stories and free verse poems.
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 LAYTH5 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 Ayolov3 days ago in Critique
Comments (15)
Well done!!!❤️❤️💕
Can't believe I missed this, Miss seeing you in the notifications! 🥲😅
I actually don't think I've ever read this... You did such a phenomenal job summing it up, maybe I don't need to. haha! Another great one, Grz!
Never read this book but sounds like a good read
I cannot remember if I actually read this. Have to revisit. War? What is it good for, absolutely nothing. Huh!
I really should read this 😁
I just love how you write poems for your reviews! They're always so amazing!
To quote Sam Malone, "There's a movie!!!!!?" Towering writer.
I commend anyone who tackles this book :)
So, I have not read this but would love to. On the strength of this critique, it will definitely happen. If a career comes for a critiquer(?) of 50 words exactly, you must consider it.
You tackled a giant and did it perfectly! Well done Grz!
You nailed it. I was going to take this on but didn't know how I could do it within the word count constraint. You have done it perfectly.
I really like the style you use for this critique. It feels like it’s so much longer than the word count! Same with your last one actually! 🥰✨
Have a new trans to read...
I’ll have to read this!