Every paragraph is just 
Bees, for those unschooled in entomology, are broken into three subsets: “Workers,” who build the hive, prepare the honey, and clean each other; “Queens,” who eat the honey and live in opulence; and “Wasps,” who fight wars at the queen’s behest and defend the hive from bears. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it should. It is nearly identical to the social structure that we as humans employ.
See how the worker bee corresponds fluidly to the human laborer. The queen, by contrast, could be mistaken for a member of our ruling class: Presidents, CEOs, publishers. The wasp is analogous to a soldier or boxer. Bears, in this case, can stand in for themselves, as they pose a grave threat to both species.
That shit was so funny in the show, stood out as laugh out loud moments for me when the innie characters are reading this and finding it moving and profound and subversive because they have nothing to compare it to.
Wasps are a type of bee… truth nuke
Damn they made the thing for real?
If you have an iPhone you can get it for free as well as the audiobook on Apple Books, otherwise: https://annas-archive.org/md5/59a6dd38e78ee052e816f5f01c424dde
I wonder if they used an LLM to generate this
I highly doubt it. The satire is very textually rich and you can tell they’ve put a lot of thought in - stuff like him throwing “publishers” onto the list of ruling class members in the excerpt I posted.
It would have been written by a heavily exploited ghost writer so it’s not surprising they’d throw some swipes in at the publisher when they can get away with it. There is an entertaining section of this video where the host both commissions a ghost written book and then later himself writes a self-help slop book under similar conditions to how this tie-in book would have been produced.
Ehhhh, I’ll watch the video later, but the joke is pretty clearly that Ricken has struggled with getting his books published, and is extrapolating the power they have over him to a society-wide class hierarchy.
Perhaps there’s a double meaning but if so the ghost writer obfuscated it to the point that I’m pretty sceptical.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
In the center of industry is “dust”
The plot line of the book was totally abandoned on the middle of the season without any conclusion. Why they even added it? To fill space on the begging of the season?
I think it only existed to show how detached and malleable the innies are. Outside people easily see the book as pretentious gibberish. Innies see it as the most profound words they’ve ever read.
I’m talking about the rewrite of the book by the writer guy and the Corp lady. The last scene of the plot line was him and his wife fighting because she couldn’t believe he was selling off to Lumon, but after that the book was never mentioned again.
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I think the book’s purpose was to wake up the innies and give them the drive to find their “true selves” and rebel.
The part about him selling off to Lumon was to show 1) Lumon was working behind the scenes on damage control to ensure nothing like them breaking out ever happens again 2) show that the wise theorists behind inspiring works are also humans who can easily be corrupted against their stated values.
It did seem like they could have extended that subplot a bit by how they were setting it up but it also served its purposes
just saw this after making my comment, I’m pretty sure that happens later in the season, I’ll go back and check nowit’s from S02E03 at 34 minutes, you’re right
I thought the stuff they read during the ORTBO was what Ricken wrote
I could tell it was the same TV writers but the voicing was very different, a lot less pompous pseudo-academic and more like scripture. It was Kier’s diary, right?
I think the text is written from Keir’s perspective but I just assumed that was a literary framing device that Natalie suggested when they were discussing how to make the book more suitable for innies.
I just thought they would pick that back up in season 3
I thought you were talking about the first season and was about to write a very civil reply, but yeah I was really disappointed in how they dropped it in the second (as well as Ricken’s character, one of my favourites).
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Last episode? Are you sure? I remember that they meet about that, but not in the last episode.
I think I’m wrong, I’m checking through the S2 episodes now for it
EDIT: yeah found it @34mins in S02E03
the perils of binging the whole thing I guess
the excerpt makes me wonder if Jack Handey’s Deep Thoughts were the inspiration for Ricken and his book
