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It’s All Geek to Me - New York Times - Neal Stephenson Reviews '300'
Topic: Technology 1:06 pm EDT, Mar 20, 2007

The Spartan phalanx presents itself to foes as a wall of shields, bristling with spears, its members squatting behind their defenses, anonymous and unknowable, until they break formation and stand out alone, practically naked, soft, exposed and recognizable as individuals.

The audience members watching them play the same game: media-weary, hunkered down behind thick irony, flinging verbal jabs at the screen — until they see something that moves them. Then they’ll come out and feel. But at the first hint of politics, they’ll jump back behind their shield-wall, just like the Spartans when millions of Persian arrows blot out the sun, and wait until the noise stops.

It’s All Geek to Me - New York Times - Neal Stephenson Reviews '300'



 
 
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