001 About

On This Page:

  • Welcome to The Hunger Games Notes!
  • About Me …
  • About My “futuristguy” Content Blogs …
  • … and My Media Notes Blogs

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Welcome to The Hunger Games Notes!

The more I read The Hunger Games books and watch the film adaptations, the more deeply I see that Suzanne Collins understands power dynamics, how trauma happens, forms of resistance against evil, and the range of ways people respond to surviving abuse and undergoing recovery. She offers us a wealth of characters, events, and themes that help us identify different kinds of systemic abuse and oppression. She also gives us examples to consider ways we can intervene in systems of abuse when needed, and prevent them when possible.

And while many of the items I’ve collected and show images of on this website don’t seem to have much to do with that directly, I believe they do help us grasp the overall context of a dystopian society in which Hunger Games could occur.

In launching this site, I hope you’ll find something of interest that leads you deeper into understanding authoritarian cultures of control, and finding ways to resist.

~ Brad/futuristguy

NOTE: As with most of my media case study sites, I have launched when the structure is close enough to what I think it should be, and I have enough details and images for it to be worthwhile for those who are interested in the subject matter. I will complete the site as time allows. As posting progresses, my page titles may change but the links will likely remain the same.

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About Me …

I’m known online mostly as “futuristguy,” and I’ve been blogging since 2003. This is something like my 16th blog during that time (not all of them are even available anymore as, sadly, my favorite blogging host from the mid-2000s was irreparably hacked and eventually folded). As I noted on my eBay “About Me” page, I have four unusual amateur “professions” that I pursue as pastime activities:

I am a strategic-foresight futurist, helping everyday people create a better future, not simply survive into the future.

I am a media culturologist, studying films, print and digital materials, and toys to create fun learning exercises that train leaders.

I am a social activist, helping create a sustainable world with a “quadruple bottom line” approach that benefits people/community, the planet/ecology, profit/economy, and personal and social change/spirituality.

I am an organizational ecologist, helping people: (A) figure out their organization’s “DNA,” (B) discern what it has the potential to become, and then (C) strategize a healthy trajectory to get from starting point A to fulfillment point B.

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… About My “Futuristguy” Content Blogs …

My “futuristguy” blog is the main one dealing with thoughts on those four topics. I have been writing about them for at least 20 years, producing about 300 to 500 pages of material per year – articles, reviews, simulation games, other kinds of immersion learning exercises. I’ve been blogging more intensively about these topics since the mid-2000 decade and, more recently, boiling those thousands of pages of primary work into a curriculum.

That forthcoming training curriculum is the subject of my Futuristguy’s Field Guides blog (curriculum and blog both still under construction). Its purpose is provide “Resources for designing holistic social transformation with a systems perspective, intercultural paradigm, and interdisciplinary processes.” I’ve designed it with enough flexibility for use by teams in non-profit or business settings, collaborative partnerships across organizations, and short- and long-term social change projects.

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… and My “Futuristguy” Media Notes Blogs

My series of futuristguy media notes blogs is mostly a fun hobby for me. But it’s also a way I can source some serious media materials to train the next generation of leaders interested in the future, culture, social justice, and sustainability. (You’ll find hints of the practical how-to aspects on the blogs, but the workbook sections in my Futuristguy’s Field Guides curriculum contain far more on how to use specific media elements as training materials.)

As time goes by, I plan to add other “Media Notes” blogs for other books, films, and media. The links will show up in the sidebar blogroll when I do. Also, I plan to keep on adding information and images to many of the media blogs I’ve already created. So, if you’re interested in updates, subscribe to them!

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