Next week the DoD Film and Deviance Group will screen “The
Hunger Dialectic.” Set in the early 21st
century land of Normal Philosophy, this dystopian tale focuses on the mad
spectacle of the Hunger Dialectic, a contest in which young tributes are
conscripted into an artificial environment (called “Blog”) in which basic
empathy, order, and human decency must be abandoned. Young tributes are given perverse incentive
to decline all solidarity with their peers and instead struggle to kill and
maim each other verbally in an effort to survive or at least look more clever
than others. In a plot element that will
come as a surprise to no deviants, the kids in District Unranked have it
hardest, having the fewest resources and being the most distant from the fabled
capital of Secure Employment and Peer Respect.
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