Comments on: Little Brother http://wongablog.co.uk/2008/08/13/little-brother/ like balloons, but with dancing Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:29:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sara http://wongablog.co.uk/2008/08/13/little-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-5201 sara Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:44:43 +0000 http://wongablog.co.uk/?p=3173#comment-5201 Interesting analysis of the book! Did you not feel that the ending mitigated the government=evil thing at all? I had some of the same feelings that you did, but I felt somewhat better that in the end the CA gov't stood up for him, closed the prison, etc. and that the end solution that seemed acceptable to all was civil trials rather than anarchy/just letting everyone go. (Of course, the gov't doesn't come out perfectly here, with the release of the torturer woman, but it's definitely not portrayed as 100% evil either, at least in my opinion). I was actually more taken aback by the first epilogue, in which the writer was basically telling kids to go out and fuck up security systems (how would you get a weapon on a plane?) and sort of sings the praises of phishers and other internet criminals (hello, just because it's online doesn't make it edgy and non-illegal!--then again, I am 25 so perhaps should not be trusted...). I'm not a huge fan of airport security either, but I personally think it goes a little far and makes the whole book seem a little less sympathetic. But overall, I did really like it and I agree that it really made me think about things! Interesting analysis of the book! Did you not feel that the ending mitigated the government=evil thing at all? I had some of the same feelings that you did, but I felt somewhat better that in the end the CA gov’t stood up for him, closed the prison, etc. and that the end solution that seemed acceptable to all was civil trials rather than anarchy/just letting everyone go. (Of course, the gov’t doesn’t come out perfectly here, with the release of the torturer woman, but it’s definitely not portrayed as 100% evil either, at least in my opinion).

I was actually more taken aback by the first epilogue, in which the writer was basically telling kids to go out and fuck up security systems (how would you get a weapon on a plane?) and sort of sings the praises of phishers and other internet criminals (hello, just because it’s online doesn’t make it edgy and non-illegal!–then again, I am 25 so perhaps should not be trusted…). I’m not a huge fan of airport security either, but I personally think it goes a little far and makes the whole book seem a little less sympathetic. But overall, I did really like it and I agree that it really made me think about things!

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