Compulsion is like a tide whose strength is determined by the number of people who demand or who acquiesce in the process of compulsion. Surge tides, as we saw recently in southwest Florida, are particularly powerful and destructive. Tides exert pressure, tides are unreasoning and irresistible.
There is a reason we use the “tide” metaphor when talking about culture and political events. So why not sign up for “woke” ideology? Or more correctly, how do you not sign up for “woke” ideology when your competitor is? And when window smashing time comes, don’t you want to be seen as being on the correct side? “Would you just like to ’round up’ today?” Businesses began marketing their virtue - not just goods and services. It might be a jar or, more easily, a button on the checkout card reader. The “bell ringers” sit outside the grocery store door during the holidays.Īnd then some stores would give you the opportunity to give at the cash register. The hardware store sponsors the little league. It seems to have started innocently enough - businesses want to be seen in a positive light by the communities they serve. The only question is who is benefitting, how and why.
Ricochet lost worlds full version for free#
As the saying goes in signing up for free social media: if you are not paying for something, then you are the product. And mixing that disorganization with the drug culture zeitgeist and the California social ferment of the time, the concert turned into a deadly and damaging affair.įree is never free. In fact, so disorganized was the actual tour, coupled with the youth of the band members, that concerts “just happened” without any real organizing strategy around them. Accordingly, the organizing of a free concert was more than a haphazard affair. So they were hardly in a position to put on free concerts. While superficially all rock bands of note were making money hand over fist, the tawdry history of band management between the hangers-on, managers, and venue operators, a lot of money managed to disappear, and at the time of the 1969 concert, the Rolling Stones were virtually broke. Somehow, somewhere, they needed to fit in a free concert to maintain their social standing in the rock subculture. And this is where the Rolling Stones found themselves in their 1969 American tour. And once some name bands were doing so, immense pressure was placed on remaining bands to do so. Like today’s corporate woke culture, rock bands were putting on free concerts in the day. The Hells Angels brought their kind of order that more closely resembles disorder until it’s done.Īside from the mayhem, and the reason for this post, is the why the concert happened at all. For reasons Selvin outlines in the book, the concert was a disaster - people died, thousands were wittingly and unwittingly dosed with amphetamines and LSD. It is about the 1969 free concert held at the Altamont speedway in far east Alameda County, California. Or how about a ball that shoots lasers? But there is much more to the game.Mrs Rodin is reading Joel Selvin’s excellent book, Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day. But there are also power-ups that create new balls (not multipliers) and power-ups that change other types of bricks. In the game, you'll find many of the usual power-ups, such as Small/Big Ball, Slow/Fast Ball, Trapper (to avoid losing balls), Multi-Ball, 8-Ball, laser-equipped paddles, and total destruction ball (in this case, the corrosion ball). You can choose from four difficulty levels. Each underworld has 10 levels, so there are 160 different levels to play. The game has four main worlds (submarine, volcano, alien, etc. In the 'Underwater World', for example, the bricks shake in complex patterns, up and down, left and right, and some bricks 'fly' more randomly. The bricks are unique in that they are not only fixed and straight, but also 'vibrate' in some levels (at least I haven't seen this anywhere else). When you eliminate them all, you will pass to the next level. In this game, your mission is to destroy all the bricks. It is a variant of Breakout, in which there is a small boat (paddle) at the bottom of the playing field that initially shoots a ball, which is then reflected on the playing field. It is the successor game to Ricochet Xtreme.
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