![]() This is a work by people who understand comic book storytelling, not a forced marriage between a serious author and the best available illustrator who can meet a deadline, as you can often find from prose publishers trying to cash in on the graphic novel boom. Words and pictures work together harmoniously. The art choices for each story, though different, represent the kind of highly-polished work you’d see in a Marvel title rather than the less slick and commercial cartooning styles prevalent in literary graphic novels. There’s no faulting the professional execution of the project. “I’ve written op-ed pieces, but wanted to take on these topics in ways that are more accessible, using the power of comics, which rely so much on the visuals.” “I wanted to write five different stories in an attempt to give people tools to shatter that spell of what my colleague Samar Ali and I call the hate industrial complex,” he said. Though Hurwitz’s diagnosis of the problem isn’t unique, he wanted to bring his skills as a storyteller and his academic background in psychology to bear on a solution. ![]() There’s an enormous amount of money to be made driving our outrage, fear and resentments, and encouraging us to dehumanize various groups.” These social media companies have “teams of addiction specialists working with deep AI and machine learning to target exactly where your focus is and what you’ll find most salacious and upsetting, to trigger your continue reliance on it. ![]() Rather than pointing fingers at individual extremists, Hurwitz sees the real villain as the hidden interests who profit from division and hatred, by monetizing the views and clicks of a riled-up public.
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