The Salt Path people's big mistake was not just doing an Interestingly Bad Thing but doing an Interestingly Bad Thing which is nested inside two other Interestingly Bad Things (autobio porkies & 'natural' remedy grifting) so that everybody talks about your Interesting Badness for days
When something is too good to be true, it usually is. They need to own up and pay back (adjusted for inflation of course) the money they embezzled and stole. youtu.be/UY2ivdm9obY?...
I'd gathered some questions had arisen about the Salt Path story, but figured it was run of the mill stuff. Then I read the Observer story. Damn. It's just (alleged, I suppose) lies all the way down.
Stumbling into being a multi-level Omniwrongun lol
And if your Bad Thing lets the English grads of Bluesky talk about things like the nature of reality and redemption arcs and misinformation in the simulacrum of postmodernism oh baby you are *fucked* haha
I mean if only they'd held back to make a film about the real story. It's SO fascinating and resonant
They still could! And it could have Anderson and Isaacs in it. I’d watch that.
Could be the best sequel ever.
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I'd watch a postmodern take on its making like Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in The French Lieutenant's Woman.