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Maybe I've become too cynical, but with the movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter recently coming out, I can't help but think of Paul Graham's essay "Submarine".

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... I don't understand. What's your complaint here? Is it somehow a bad thing for them to write a topical article that adds context to a current piece of media? I had no idea about these details of Bram Stoker's Dracula and it's interesting finding out more about it. I didn't realize The Last Voyage of the Demeter would be about dracula until seeing it and it's fun to read more about it.

So yeah, be less cynical. Some of us want to learn more about the world around us. Sometimes it's really tiring reading the comments here. Nothing but bitter old men yelling at clouds.

Bitter? No. Old? Getting there. Yelling at clouds? Not even once, even though live in Oregon.

What's my complaint? Not really a complaint but when you realize that National Geographic is owned by Disney and DreamWorks used to be under Disney's umbrella, it's not a big stretch that there may be people at DreamWorks who have connections at Disney and can get a story idea planted. I'm not even sure that's cynicism. I think it's just an understanding of how the world often works.

But how does that understanding help you in this case? I just see somebody who's deciding not to give any further thought to Dracula, Bram Stoker or how the story was written, instead aiming for the low fruit of "corporate capitalism bad". Like, there are so many ways you could've guided the conversation into a more productive, interesting direction that's actually relevant to the topic in the article while not necessarily pandering to the underlying/implicit PR priming.

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