A Hikkikomori StopGap

Hackers Wanted Documentary

“Wish you luck, hope you don’t end up in a prison jail.”

“Well…if I do, I’ll make sure to make an experience out of it.” - Adrian Lamo

Hackers Wanted is a very basic documentary. I don’t mean this from a knowledgeable coder point of view but from an average internet surfer knowledge level.

There’s really nothing in this documentary that would shock or surprise people who have a basic understanding of what hacking means (as a dictionary term, not the actual act)

Even the details you might not have heard of won’t give you any nitty gritty insight into the daily grind of a hacker.

You could compare this torrent to many of those Pro-Piracy torrents that get seeded by tons of people but really only containing a clean image ideology of the subject they’re talking about.

That said, this documentary is particularly notable because of the premise behind it:

From Wikipedia:

Hackers Wanted is an unreleased American documentary film.

Directed and written by Sam Bozzo, the film explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo, and contrasting his story with that of controversial figures throughout history. The film is narrated by Kevin Spacey.

Originally named “Can You Hack It?” The film failed to get a conventional release because of alleged conflicts between its producer and others on the team. On May 20, 2010, a version of the film was leaked to BitTorrent. Adrian Lamo has stated that he had no involvement in the leak.

“It’s ironic that a film about overcoming barriers, about new technologies, about thinking differently, had to come to the public eye by being hacked out of the hands of people who, after making a film about the free flow of information, tried to lock away that information forever. The truth tends to itself.” -Adrian Lamo

According to an insider, the latest version of the film contains additional footage and is significantly different from the one leaked online.[citation needed]

How does this relate to Hikikomori?

Torrent link: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Hackers-Wanted-2008-DVDRip-MP4-LKRG/419660c1473a8e6d6756dca7951ed5c87ab7c3d105f3

Warning! I don’t understand codecs but even when viewing it with the latest K-lite codec pack, the video will auto-mute around 48:32 of the video. If you move forward past this section, the sound doesn’t go away as long as you don’t have the video playing around this point.

It relates to Hikikomori because the hacker ideal is very similar to being isolated from the outside world only Hackers don’t isolate themselves in a room and many of them actually mingle outside.

Again, from a knowledge point of view, it’s not really that shocking but it’s still a perspective average Hikikomories would want to check out.

Of course for those actual talented Hikikomories, the documentary is kind of obvious if not optimistically portrayed but it’s still something Hikikomories would want to check out in case they never thought through Lamo’s perspective of the world.

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There will be in the next generation or so … a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel — by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

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Aldous Huxley, 1961 (via poortaste) (via emptymoments)

Note: 3rd reblog. I actually discovered emptymoments’ tumblr from his comments/notes on the socialism reblog and he was one of the few who was anti-that post so at first I thought: “Hmm… I really didn’t want to comment on that reblog because it was more wit than substance… but hmm… this guy posted something closer to my views…”

“tick tock” “tick tock”

In the end, I decided not to post his notes because it wasn’t really much substance either (basically just a rebuttal) so I thought I’d just follow his blog and this turns out to be his latest post/reblog at the time and once again, I had the same feelings of not reblogging… Felt this comment was too “quote-ish” and does no justice to Aldous Huxley but then unlike his notes for that reblog, this one did mention Aldous Huxley and the guy is just understated outside of certain niches.

Hell, I think most people who accuse us of being parasite singles by default don’t even know that there is a whole gamut of political texts that give good reasons why we as a society are heading towards the path of leeches “beyond” the confines of just living off of our parents’ means.

I even think that there is probably a good proportion of these people who when introduced to these texts would still rationalize that the parasite single is leeching off worse than what people who are mindlessly leeching off society is doing if only due to the fact that they’re so focused on the “poor parent” (who is often willingly promoting this behaviour and isn’t as poor as they think they are) rather than the actual effects of the actions being done.

…but, that said, arguing for this from any man’s point of view is challenging because it’s not only the separation of parasite single and welfare brainwashed people that’s “the” factor but also separating Hikikomoris from parasite singles and then combining it to factor those Hikikomoris who are both Hikikomoris AND parasite singles.

Never an easy argument because the defender of this theme cannot afford to be ignorant of politics, parenting, parasite singles, welfare and facts …and then needing to mix this with Hikikomoris. That’s why I’d rather not focus on that issue for now and instead reblog this instead.

I’m not using Aldous Huxley’s writings to serve as my revisionist foil and pretend he said something to defend us Hikikomoris but until the day comes when I or some other Hiki has the tools to state the parasite single argument in a satisfactory quality that would make the dissenters second-think their brash and biased opinions, sharing the name Aldous Huxley doesn’t seem to be a bad enough thing, insufficient quote or not.