Tom Hank's wife Rita Wilson just posted on social media a video of her reading Ender's Game. More military overtones with connections to Arizona State University (pizzagate)

submitted ago by MercurysBall2

Tom Hank's wife Rita Wilson just posted on social media a video of her reading a book and then herself rapping. (Now I see where Chet gets it from).

If you have Twitter or Instagram you can see the posts here:

https://twitter.com/RitaWilson/status/1241639088442105858

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-BqChYnY6F/

The main take away for me was the book that she was looking at, Ender's Game by  Orson Scott Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers". In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, are trained from a very young age by putting them through increasingly difficult games, including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.

It has become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps. … The U.S. Marine Corps Professional Reading List makes the novel recommended reading at several lower ranks, and again at Officer Candidate/Midshipman.[18] The book was placed on the reading list by Captain John F. Schmitt, author of FMFM-1 (Fleet Marine Fighting Manual, on maneuver doctrine) for "provid[ing] useful allegories to explain why militaries do what they do in a particularly effective shorthand way."[19] In introducing the novel for use in leadership training, Marine Corps University's Lejeune program opines that it offers "lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well ... Ender's Game has been a stalwart item on the Marine Corps Reading List since its inception."

About the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card

A great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, Card was born in Richland, Washington and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Brazil and headed a community theater for two summers. 

Brigham Young? That's interesting because I only just wrote about him a few days ago in this post : Tom Hanks, the face of coronavirus and 'Philadelphia' - some wild speculations... indulge me for a minute.. Before Hanks took off for Australia he have a bizarre speech when he received a Cecil B. DeMille award.

Cecil Blount DeMille (/ˈsɛsəl dəˈmɪl/; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker. Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history.

DeMille's legacy is maintained by his granddaughter Cecilia DeMille Presley who serves as the president of the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation, which strives to support higher education, child welfare, and film in Southern California.[299] In 1963, the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation donated the "Paradise" ranch to the Hathaway Foundation, which cares for emotionally disturbed and abused children.[86] A large collection of DeMille's materials including scripts, storyboards, and films resides at Brigham Young University in L. Tom Perry Special Collections.

More about the author: of Ender's Game:

When Card was one month old, his family moved to San Mateo, California so Willard Card could begin a sign painting business. However, when he was three years old, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah so his father could finish his bachelor's degree. The family moved to Santa Clara, California when Card was six; they stayed there for seven years while his father completed his master's degree and was a professor at San Jose State College. .. In 1964, Card and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona where he participated in mock debates in junior high school. In 1967, the family moved to Orem, Utah where his father worked at Brigham Young University (BYU). 

Interesting family. His father Willard is mentioned in this 1967 document by Columbia University: 8MM FILM-IN EDUCATION- ITS EMERGING ROLE. - https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED010115.pdf

A BROCHURE HAS SEEN PREPARED WHICH COMPLEMENTS THE MOTION PICTURE l 8MM FILM IN EDUCATIONTS EMERGING ROLE, .PRODUCED BY THE PROJECT ON EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF THE HORACE MANN- LINCOLN INSTITUTE. .. MEMBERS OF -THE PROJECT TRAVELED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND TALKED WITH EDUCATORS HO WERE WORKING WITH 8-..MM FILM

[Page 5] Arizona State University - VERNON S. GERLACH, ASSOCIAT PROPSSOR OF EDUCATION .. Professor Gerlach, whose research interest is in new learning techniques, writes, "Technological developments invariably suggest new solutions to old problems. At Arizona State University this phenomenon has manifested itself in the development of a new kind of laboratory for the basic audiovisual education course. The technological development is the 8mm loop (cartridged) film and projector. The problem is the development of a self-instructional system for teaching skillfinvolved in A-V equipment operation and basic materials production."

The students are guided by a dittoed manual for each topic studied, while the teacher in the film, Mr. Willard Card moves about the classroom, giving assistance where it is needed.

Professor Gerlach and Willard Card worked in Research and Development within the Educational Technology field. Gerlach's papers are cited in this military training session at the Orlando Naval Training Center https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a024526.pdf

We know that university has many interesting connections, including the military. You can read about some of them here: https://searchvoat.co/?st=comments&t=arizona+state+university+military&b=on

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MercurysBall2 ago

I had a look at the trailer for the film, and thought it was total crap.. but the pushing and careful grooming of millenials by Deborah Brix which we can see here and here is interesting.

Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military

Troops are being trained with military technology inspired by an iconic science fiction novel

..I’m in a convention center in Orlando, Fla., at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, the largest military simulation conference in the world. And I’ve just experienced the Army’s most lifelike training simulation yet: the Dismounted Soldier Training System which, after two years and US $57 million in development, will arrive at bases this year.

Yes, it’s the stuff of science fiction, most notably Ender’s Game, the best-selling 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card that has whiz-kid cadets fighting an alien space fleet through a video game (the book was based on a short story by Card of the same name, published in 1977 as Analog Science Fiction and Fact). Among military geeks, the book—which is being officially released as a $100 million film starring Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley on 1 November —has been a blueprint for the future for years. As Michael Macedonia, the former director of the Army’s simulation technology center, told The New York Times in 2003, “Ender’s Game has had a lot of influence on our thinking. The intent is to build a simulation that allows people to play in that world for months or years, participate in different types of roles, and see consequences of their decisions.”

..The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a U.S. government–funded research and development organization in Playa Vista, Calif., that makes some of the most convincing military simulations around. According to ICT, one of its training tools, the Joint Fires and Effects Training System...

..The use of video games for military training began in 1980. Battlezone, a popular arcade hit that pitted players against three-dimensional (albeit wireframe) tanks, was modified for the Army to school Bradley Fighting Vehicle gunners. But when he was writing the Ender’s Game short story and novel, Card didn’t find much in his neighborhood arcade to inspire a vision for the virtual warriors of the future. “None of the games I had seen were remotely useful in preparing soldiers for either combat or leadership,” he says.

..The Army has just begun rolling out its most ambitious mission simulation project yet. Costing $27 million to develop and $490 per system to deploy, the Integrated Training Environment is a suite of government off-the-shelf hardware and software tools that allow a commander to combine virtual humans and real brigades together in what Blake calls a “blended environment.”

[*“blended environment.” - the same technology already being used in large scale music events..]

Beyond Ender’s Game

To get a glimpse of where our war games are going in the future, I head to the Mixed Reality Lab at the ICT. ..

MercurysBall2 ago

On Deborah Brix :

We Are Being Played Who exactly is handling the Corona Virus Task Force in the US? I look in to the back ground of Debra Birx which leads us to PEPFAR, which leads us to Bono and Bill Gates and the swampy depths of the Frankenstein Medical Industrial Complex.

Metalmonkeybaby ago

Thats interesting that name Caris, wasnt that on the instsgram of ping pong guy

Lansing-Michigan ago

After the American people get their Pittance Checks and the gigantic slush fund is established for the corporations, watch for the corona virus scare to be over. Rand Paul went to the senate gym to work out after a staff member was diagnosed with the virus. They weren't scared.......Just us peons have to stay away from crowds.

MercurysBall2 ago

It's quite clearly the destruction of the middle class.

In the UK, a large proportion of the population is ignoring calls for 'social distancing'. It will be interesting to see the disease numbers compared to other countries over the next few weeks.