I'm from Syracuse, NY, and live about ten minutes away from Syracuse University. This past Sunday, Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, and it's sequel, Assholes Finish First, was at Syracuse University for a book signing! Here are a few links to the event, from Syracuse University's news site, 'The Daily Orange':
"Author Tucker Max brings quick wit to Follett's book signing"
And a video!
This is a link to the trailer for the MOVIE version of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.
Also, in light of recent events regarding cyber bullying in virtual social areas such as Facebook, the screenwriter of 'The Social Network,' a movie based on the creation of and drama around Facebook, is an alumnus of Syracuse University. Here's a link to an article in 'The Daily Orange' about that! And here's the trailer. It came out in theatres last Friday, October 1st. The movie puts the creator of Facebook in a negative light, and in hopes of combatting that negative image, he has recently donated large sums of money to charity.
So, as you learn these things and think about them, does it change your perspective on either the book or things technological? What is the role of money/donations to charity to make something acceptable? It's a question that was raised about some of the great industrialists of an earlier era (the robber barons). They treated their workers horribly then endowed public libraries or museums. Your comment puts the founder of Facebook in that same realm potentially. Does the shoe fit?
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the movie, so I don't really know HOW the movie portrays him negatively, I just know that it does. I guess I am glad that if something good came of his negative actions being made public, it was that his wealth went to something genuine. Other than that, I don't really think about his moral soundness.
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