model railroad 2018 |
“Do You Love Me?”
Here is the wildly popular video from Boston Dynamics.
It is written by Berry Gordy and performed by The
Contours.
Do you feel they really have personalities?
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model railroad 2018 |
“Do You Love Me?”
Here is the wildly popular video from Boston Dynamics.
It is written by Berry Gordy and performed by The
Contours.
Do you feel they really have personalities?
Grandfather Mtn NC bridge |
“A Date in 2025”, on the DUST channel by Ryan Turner,
presents an appealing young man Daniel (Sasha Feldman), who is goaded by his AI
assistant, which is a little more persistent than Alexa, into dating the young
lady in his mundane online school (like the pandemic never ended).
The assistant tells him he is like a cell in a siphonophore,
a colony whose individual animals die if they don’t connect to others. Without romantic suicide, cold logic will
force him into suicide.
The AI even pesters him about his masturbation habits.
The final date seems like a bit of a proof of concept.
Facebook, 2018 |
“Section 230, Explained” by Jennifer Huddleston, of
the American Action Forum.
The eight-minute documentary contrasts the reasons why
both Trump and Biden want to get rid of Section 230 (of the 1996
Telecommunications Decency Act, with its “26 Words that Created the Internet”.
That parallels the differences between conservatives (who see Big Tech censoring
their speech, currently about the 2020 election) and liberals (who want do
control hate speech and radicalization, which has become a real problem since
Charlottesville).
Huddleston make a real point that a platform (or web
host, which has a very different paradigm from a social media company) does not
“own” your content. Imagine what would happen
if it did.
She does not get into detail as to what would happen
if Section 230 were abolished altogether, but for that go to Electronic
Frontier Foundation’s Elliot Harmon and his Oct 2020 NYTimes op-ed. Many people would eventually be stopped from having their own personal
presence online at all.
There is a good question as to whether earlier court rulings
from the 1990s would provide some downstream immunity protection, or whether a
common carrier law for hosts would be a good idea as a partial replacement.
Feb 2010 blizzard in DC area |
“Whiteout” by Lance Edmands, presents a young couple
driving a deserted road at night in a snowstorm, when they come upon an
apparent drunk man (Patrick Tihany) in the way.
There is a philosophical conflict between the man and
woman (David Call and Sarah Tihany) as
to their duty to help, and they call 911.
They sacrifice the coat that the man and try to help
him.
They get back into the car, and the man charges. They have to drive off. The cops are coming.
The film (from Washington Square Films) was shot in a
single take and was released on another channel in late 2019. It was placed on
the Alter channel a few days ago.
St park in Maryland |
“Haunted Holiday: Gay Ghost Hauntings”, from Rudra
Productions, is an extended fantasy-mystery road trip gay film (33 minutes),
directed by Amit and Mohit Singh, apparently from India.
Two young men and a young woman go away for a holiday. At night they have car trouble, and are led
to a haunted hotel.
In the hotel there are some odd people (one who walks
on all fours), and an enigmatic young man who seems to be gay. So the two young men (Ashkit and Mohay, I think)
are drawn to him, and then discover each other, just as Khushi is trying to get
them checked out the next morning.
Then there is a flash of light and seemingly a medical
catastrophe. Maybe that’s a spoiler.
The film (apparently in Hindi) did not provide
subtitles.
As another note, a channel of gay soft core videos of
men in suits was suddenly taken down Christmas Day by YouTube, called “Gay
Awesome”, also calling itself “The Office”.
Indeed bizarre.
Bronx Botanical Museum, 2014 |
Venture City presents “Timelapse of Future Technology
2022-4000”.
Elon Mush will launch a vehicle to Mars in 2022?
Humans will get tattoos and dermal implants to control
devices and even communicate telepathically. Bioengineering will reduce or reverse
aging.
Late in this century, quantum computers will be able
to create conscious beings that live 5000 years and can even have their own
funerals.
By about 2300 we will be a Type 1 civilization and soon after be able to build a Dyson Sphere
and become more like a Type 2 (Kardashev scale). It will take until 4000 to become a type 3
and control the galaxy and manipulate space-time.
trail in Maryland |
The short film “SOG” , by Jannik Gensler (Dec. 18,
2020), in German, plays on bisexuality.
Two young men are camping in the woods. That is Linus (Daniel Dietrich) and Jonas
(Vincent Lang). They sleep in a tent.
Next day, Jonas, who is supposed to be straight and is conspicuously male, twists
his ankle. That provides the trigger for
intimacy.
BLM sign in Arlington VA |
Patrise Cullors (a founder of Black Lives Matter)
talks about “How to Be an Ally”. This is
a recent video, today, Dec. 21, and would go along with a recent
YouTubeOriginal series of videos called “Resist”. "Allyship" has become a trendy word, of what is expected now.
She talks about the concepts of ally, accomplice, and
co-conspirator.
Sometimes an “ally” only shows up when it is
convenient.
She also says that privilege is a matter of what you
have not been forced to deal with as well as what you have been given.
San Francisco Market St 2018 |
Eduardo Sanchez-Ubanell treats us with another short, “Straight
Friends vs. Gay Friends” (6 min).
The music (an upward scale) is certainly coy, and sets up a lighthearted mood in a troubled time.
It’s filmed in his pod perch in San Francisco, and is
pretty much a display of “manliness”.
I can remember a time when, in the 1980s, teachers would play "don't tell" by saying "I have gay friends".
I wish gay YouTubers would tell us what is going on in LA and San Francisco. Everyone I know is staying healthy. Yet the media reports a mass death event, especially in Los Angeles. What is going on?
NYC |
“The First Contact”, from Yangon in Action, June 14,
2020, is a 2-minute microfilm showing the first two minutes of an alien
invasion over what may be Lima, Peru.
There is a huge spherical ship looking like a Christmas
Tree ornament, and then some other daughter puff balls. The mother ship spews out lightning, probably
zapping electronics was with a microwave flux or EMP attack.
So the film is a bit of a warning. It does remind me of "Independence Day" (1996), but without Bill Pullman as president and without a hive-mind alien.
Minneapolis Nicollet Mall 2019 |
Clooney became ill with pancreatitis recently after
losing twenty pounds to be in a film “Midnight Sky”, about a scientist (in
Iceland) trying to contact a space crew after a global catastrophe, as explained
in Eton Online.
Timcast IRL discusses and has fun with Clooney’s “demands”
from the Congressional stimulus hearings.
Christmas show, VA |
Rafael Dufour presents the micro sort film “Line 21”
for Artfx, May 2020.
In 2184, the rich people live above the clouds (in separate
high rises, reachable by a super elevator) and the poor people live in barrios
on the ground. It sounds like “Elysium” (Aug 10, 2013).
Actually, middle class people don’t live well
either. When a young woman attempts to
get on a tram to take her to the sky, a robot stops her.
Then we learn that the robot, driven by AI, has
emotions and is aware of itself.
The last minute of the 4-1/2 minute film is taken up by
snazzy credits.
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Wren building |
“Truth or Dare” with male couple R. J. King and Charlie
Knepper.
I’ve seen this kind of thing before, on Eduardo’s
channel, and on Fear Pong.
King doesn’t get to keep all of his leg hair, as there
is a tribunal in the middle.
But later there are some bad table manners with bananas, and we all know what they resemble.
knick knacks |
Juan Sebastian Valencia presents “Magico”, which seems
like a compressed gay version of “The Prestige’, perhaps, posted in November
2020.
Luke (Aaron Evans) is going to audition for a troupe
in a magic show. A bisexual swaggler Carl
(Sam Street) enters the picture, ambivalent about what their relationship may
be.
But the tension stirs Luke to develop his skills,
which do become supernatural.
There is a somewhat intimate scene in the middle
section. They take off their own shirts
(why not let them do it to each other) and the total count of chest hairs is zero.
The film has won awards in numerous LGBT film
festivals.
flying over Utah, 2018 |
“The Art of Photography” offers a video “How to Get Your Film on Netflix”, with filmmaker Brett Culp.
He started out working in wedding photography (like a film I remember from 2002, “Married at the Mall” in Minneapolis), and came up on the idea of kids (often with medical issues) overcoming adversity with a “#WeAreBatman” idea.
He went on to make a film “Legends of the Night” (2013), based on the idea of storytelling on hero characters to lift people up. Later he made “Look to the Sky” (2017).
He talks about the “passion in your heart” with “what the world needs”. We get selfish, “I will do it for me.” (Like finish Bruckner’s Ninth?).
This question could apply to how to sell to Amazon Prime or to YouTube Original. YouTube seems to want to be a little more like Netflix, with all its censorship.
condos near the 405 in Los Angeles, 2012 |
“Out”, directed by Greg Michael Blanchard.
Christopher Breitinger plays a teen with an appealing boyfriend
played by Steven Brogan. He tells (implicitly) his mom (Lauren Henning) that he
is gay, and his dad(Doug Mears) insists “you don’t make decisions like this at
your age”.
But then the boyfriend is gaybashed near the home and
shows up at the front door.
Seems to be filmed around Los Angeles.
This is a well paced short with a basic philosophical conflict
– deciding v. being.
The film is an “Aldo I. Gallinar” production.
Key West FL 2017 |
A channel called “The Take” has several videos on the
1994 movie “The Truman Show”, directed by Peter Weir, written by Andre Nicol,
from Paramount Pictures (mini review here). This video (July 30, 2020), is called “The
Truman Show Tried to Warn Us.”
Truman Burbank is an insurance salesman living in what
looks like Florida. But his whole life
is contrived for him to be the center of, for one long reality television
show. The entire southeastern United States
is placed under a bubble just for Truman.
Truman is a kind of “protagonist” who gets out-of-proportion
attention drawn to him by the whole world, as if it care about nothing else.
Carrey manages to make himself likeable enough.
I wonder if that’s what the protagonist ‘Bill”
accomplishes on the spaceship and O’Neill cylinder world, in having three
backstories shown just for him, with a dedicated cadre and cast of “actors”
ready to become other people to survive a plague on Earth. Such it is with my script “Epiphany”.
James Button acts and directs in “Road Rage”, a new
short film from Dust.
A young man, driving a sedan in Wales, asks Alexa to time travel with a common idiom, and the software starts duplicating him at different points in time, and even his car, and putting them on the road at one.
Picture: Bishop's Palace in Cardiff, wikipedia embed, click for attribution
spire, DC Wharf |
The Dust channel presents “Alone”, directed by William
Hellmuth.
A woman, Kaya Torres, alone in a space pod, finds herself
circling a black hole, getting closer to the Schwarzchild radius.
She finds a male companion “online”, and he may be a
hologram. But she finds her way to a doomed planet, where she may have a chance
to become that “hologram” for a while to guide other lost or doomed travelers.
Nevada, 2012, my trip |
“Dominant Chord” is a new gay short film by Jeremy Leroux (website).
Adam Charles (Clayton Chitty) is married to Brian (Sean Proague), and is a country-music star. When gay-bashed in the streets, his record label gets concerned about him and his “brand” (a kind of perversion of the idea of trademark). The company (Jolene, Caitlyn Stryker) wants to send him on a paid trip to Mexico pretending to be straight with women in sexual situations.
Obviously, his husband feels this is an invitation to cowardice.
In these days of woke politics, I doubt any major record
label would really find it good business to behave this way.
Andrew Neighbors has directed his first short film, “Wetstone”
(11 min), based on a short story by Sean Campbell (Dead I Productions)
Theo (played by Andrew, of “Andrew Goes Places”) finds
an unusual rock when hiking with a boyfriend, and maybe others in his pod. (They all seem to be doing well personally during the pandemic, according to various other videos from California. It helps to behave smart.)
He brings it home, and finds if he squeezes it, all
the plumbing in his condo starts to leak.
(And can repair people come during a pandemic?)
Then, yes, somebody wants it back. Eve (Julia Black) is the intermediary to an
ancient curse.
In another matter, Warner Brothers has announced that
in 2022 it will stream all its movies the same day of theatrical release (even
of the size of “Tenet”), on HBO Max (which you can get on cable if you pay for
it explicitly, or which you can join on the site itself). Hollywood Reporter discusses the “criticism” from struggling AMC Theaters.
The Armchair Historian presents “Life in German-Occupied
France”, which seems to have a game manufacturer as a sponsor.
The channels seems to have several animated films
showing the effect of war on civilians.
The video explains the split between Vichy France and
Occupied France, and then (after a brief introduction showing a family
scurrying in Paris backstreets) and then shows the impact on civilians. There was rationing of food, which caused some
starvation. The French laborers were
conscripted as slaves in order to return political prisoners from Germany to France.
The history of the effect of war on civilians is
always important, and the moral questions are sometimes parallel to those of
the pandemic.
Wikipedia embed of Invalides defense museum, Paris, click for attribution
ParaLight Worx presents “Six Minutes of War”, a German
film by Adrian Martin, Hans Holt, and Ludwig Bachman, presenting a typical
insurgence in a forest during World War II from the German side.
The music score is taken from the game “Day of Infamy”.
It’s not exactly light night infiltration in Basic Combat
Training.
One soldier finds an Allied soldier down and gives him
water.
AaapScience explains “Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn’t See Blue”, posted Nov. 24. 2020.
Very few objects in nature are blue (bird with blue
feathers are so because of reflective subtraction, not pigment). So ancient minds tended to perceive blue as
without color, a kind of gray.
Our brains learn to see color because we give them
connation. Crayon boxes present brown as
a separate color, and we don’t perceive it as a dark orange. Likewise, our brains
perceive pink as a separate color from red.
Our actual experience of color is socially constructed.
Facebook uses the color blue because its founder is
partially color-blind.
Imagine making a movie called “Color” in black and
white. Only a nitwit would do that.
On Oct 15, 2008 here there is discussion of the three
colors trilogy by Kiewslowski.
Wikipedia Blue Jay picture, embed, click for attribution.
Mohammad Solei presents “Deep Dive”, a 6-minute
partially animated film for the DUST sci-fi channel.
A young woman arrives in Los Angeles and is issued
unusual contact lenses, which mediate and screen what she sees.
Then she is surrounded by colorful underwater images
created by animation, as if she were in an underwater Deep Dive.
This reminds me of “Blade Runner” a little bit.
Zachary Denman has a number of other dystopian soliloquies
as he walks through an apocalyptic London.
Now he offers us “Cashless Society”.
But what he describes is a social credit system, where your comradeship is stored on the blockchain, after all your accumulated assets were taken away from you and redistributed to the needy.
China isn’t quite there yet.
Journeyman Pictures presents an Aljazeera report, “Why Families in Europe Are Sending Elderly Relatives to Care Homes in Thailand” (26 min), posted Nov. 16, 2020.
The report must have been filmed in late 2019 however
as it makes no reference to the coronavirus pandemic.
The film focuses mostly on families in the UK. The families say that costs are much lower in
Thailand and they think the (assisted living) facilities are more luxurious (mostly
individual little cottages, one level), in splendid tropical surroundings, and
the actual care is better.
However the families are much more separated from
their relatives (usually with dementia, sometimes not even that old). It would sound like they would have to be
locked in to their cottages at night to prevent wandering.
The film finishes with an external visit of the old
home in rural UK that the relative had “lost”.
The film was punctuated with excessive ads from
YouTube. Two of them were from Tyler
Mowery’s Practical Screenwriting (in the same presentation). I actually take that. Sorry, but for the sake
of time, I had to exit out of it!
Thailand has had “free speech” and other political
freedom issues with respect to(and for) the monarchy.
Wikipedia embed: Red Shirts protest in 2010, click for
attribution.
PBS POV has assembled a program of two shorts that it
calls (together) “Uniquely Euro”.
The main offering is “All Cats Are Grey in the Dark”,
by Lasse Linder, 15 min (German, subtitles).
In Austria, an elderly man has a female “Marmalade”
impregnated by a Russian cat Katyuska, takes care of the couple, and nurses the
mommy cat when she delivers the kittens.
There is a scene early on where he simply allows the
cats to be together in a playroom, and the tomcat goes right to it.
The second film is “Kachalka”, directed by Gar O’Rourke (9 min, in Ukraine). The film depicts an outdoor gym in Kiev,
filled with very heavy metal. There is a
shot of sparse chest hair filling the screen made to look like an alien
landscape. Later there is some very physical massage. There are women there, too.
Here is a related video.
I hadn’t even heard the stories that forced sterilization
of women (often PoC) go on in prisons, especially California’s, but Erika Cohn
laid it all out in a documentary, filled with interviews, aired Monday Nov. 23,
2020 on PBS Independent Lens, called “Belly of the Beast”m PBS link.
NPR has a useful historical link on the practice, which continued until at least 2010.
The women talked unashameably about their prospects for love again. And they describe not knowing they will be sterilized, for “eugenics”.
You could imagine connecting this to Bryan Stevenson’s
work on wrongful convictions (“Just Mercy”).
The film seems to be related to or inspired by the
book “In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison” from Vintage Books by Jack Henry
Abbott (1991).
The prison is located near Chowchilla, in the Central
Valley along I-5. I’ve been in the area
twice, in 2002 and 2018.
The film was followed by a brief QA where the director
talks with several former prisoners.
Wikipedia embed shows the prison from the air (click
for attribution). The film shows
various shots of downtown Sacramento (visited 2018) and the Capitol (my pic at night).
Zachary Denman offers “The Great Reset”, the fifth in
his series of dystopian science fiction films.
Maoism came back
Kain, an attractive young man now (he has a strong cellular immune system and survived without ever getting sick but infected a lot of other people going to circuit parties), walks though empty streets in a city,
but he knows he will be grabbed soon and taken to the countryside to take his
turn living in the Stone Age, and being resurfaced to look like everyone else, a mere cell in a colony, like a siphonophore. It will be a new, just kind of "survival of the fittest". Ironically, you have to reproduce.
Tracy Kleeman has a short film “Housekeeping”, from Lucy
Kat Productions, and a hit at the LA shorts filmfest and in New Hampshire. The film dates to 2019 (pre-pandemic).
A housekeeper (Kate Boledian) starts developing a
relationship with an extended stay guest (Hank Amos), who is quite assertive and full of himself. The room does leave some interesting clues behind, like a mini chess set, card games, and drugs. The room looks more like a furnished
apartment than a hotel room (full fridge, full kitchen, etc)m separate bedroom. I once had a place just like this in
Charlotte on a business trip!
The film makes it look like the plot will be driven by
gear left missing in a room. What if I
left a smart phone in my room? In
Minneapolis, I once left a UBS drive that had my backups and passwords. I think it wound up in a landfill, but yet I
changed all the pw’s when I got home (and discovered I had forgotten it).
The film has the plot device of doing “one week later”
several times.
Hotel workers are generally required to be able to
clean 12-15 rooms in an hour, I thought.
V101 Science presents
The dwarf planet is the largest known object in the Kuiper
Belt. The surface is relatively new, and is occasionally graced with methane
snow when it is retreating from closer approaches to the Sun (which can be
closer than Neptune). The surface has areas of white, black and dark red,
because of the ultraviolet hitting the methane.
There may be a subsurface ocean in some areas, which could
conceivably have life.
The documentary shows how large the similar moon Charon
looks in the sky.
Triton, a moon of Neptune, is similar to Pluto.
Wikipedia embed of NASA image of Pluto, note the crimson color, click for attribution.
“3QuestionKnow” looks at “Scientists Discover What Happens after Death: Soul
Goes to Another Universe”
The video looks at biocentrism. There is a view that
souls are instances of consciousness, and when a baby is created, the microtubules
in the brain link to one such instance.
After death, the instance travels to another universe
and repeats the cycle.
There are records of NDE’s after brain death, where
the consciousness seems to have been mirrored in cells of the body, enabling
resuscitation.
Think about when you doze off, and start a dream,
which you can’t remember but which you know you “experienced”, almost as an
alternate reality.
In some animals or organisms, the logical equivalent
of “microtubules” is dispersed throughout the body in varied ways.
You consciousness could also be viewed as a box in
space-time, of all the information content of your lifetime, which could be
reviewed. Maybe it could be stored on
the surface of a microblackhole and transferred to someone else to read.
It could matter how you die. If your brain is incinerated by a shotgun, maybe
the consciousness cannot be preserved.
Cosmic microwave background, NASA. p.d., Wikipedia embed (click for attribution)
“A Lost Youth? Do Teenagers Sacrifice Their Youth for
the Health of the Elderly?”, DW News documentary (11 min) from Nov. 6.
The film shows scenes with teens in Greece, Poland,
and the UK. There is mention of a secondary
fallout on GLBTQ youth.
Generally, teens and college or university age kids
are giving up inclass school and normal social activities and sports, allegedly,
in some accounts, to protect the elderly and people in nursing homes (?)
because the elderly are much more vulnerable to COVID-19 – but the cavalry may
be on the way with at least two vaccines.
But students are kept under almost dorm detention and
told not to party because of the bizarre nature of the pandemic.
It’s important to remember that some young adults have
died, and some do have severe disabilities, and a few have gotten a post-COVID
severe shock (autoimmune) syndrome. One
18 year old died of cardiac arrest in Ohio after apparently mild COVID.
“Mr. Clinton the Cat”, computer repairman Louis Rossmann’s
companion, has to be one of the most charismatic pets on YouTube. (He has several videos of Clinton, this one is typical.)
Clinton will jump in Rossmann’s lap during videos, or
try to play with the mike when Rossmann is about to make a video.
He also can open catfood treats when Rossmann is
out. There are many videos of Clinton.
Clinton is very talkative. Cats typically have a set of sounds that they
relate to the owner. A talkative cat may
want to maintain dominance over the other cats in commanding his human.
See mention of Rossmann’s business in NYC on Oct. 28,
2020, IT Jobs blog.
I know of one person who got Covid as a grad student,
and when he returned home from the infirmary, his female cat would not let him
out of her sight. She knew something had
happened and would not let him leave the house. Females may believe they should
be “motherly” and seem to understand that human kids take much longer to grow
up than they do.
Picture: Wikipedia embed, cat kneading its owner, click for attribution
Paul Trillo presents the short film “Until There Was Nothing”,
on the DUST channel (Aug 2020), 5 min.
The Earth approaches a black hole, and objects on the ground (buildings and mountains and sand dunes) are spaghettified. It is as if gravity itself failed.
The narrator says you have to understand nothingness to have
something.
From Wikipedia embed: "Black hole lensing", gif, click for attribution.
In each case, there was a heart transplant and the
recipient took on some of the memories of the donor. All of the donors were young adults who died
of auto accidents or gun fire.
The idea is that every cell has a memory of one's consciousness. (Such ideas have the imagined for octopuses, whose brains are distributed to arms which can grow back.) That would imply that your consciousness is itself "quantized".
In one case, the donor was a (black) violinist and the
recipient started to like classical music.
In another case, the donor had been bulimic, and the recipient
became so.
In two cases, the recipients could relive the moments before
the deaths of the donors.
In my novel, Angel’s Brother, a virus is capable of
transferring parts of souls, and giving the donor (who dies) periodic
resumption of point-of-view consciousness in one “infected” person.
In the screenplay for “Epiphany” a consciousness-imprint
is transferred by a two-step special ritual called a “tribunal”. it will tie into the William and Mary embedded backstory.
Atlas Pro presents, “The Rarest Element on Earth”.
The most common element in the Earth’s crust in Oxygen,
locked into oxides and various mineral compounds. Carbon is one of the most common. Iron is the most common in the core.
Hydrogen, outside of water, is relatively uncommon
since it evaporates into spaces, as does Helium (a noble gas).
The “rare earths” are actually more common than
silver, gold, and platinum, and platinum is more plentiful than gold.
One of the rarest is astatine, which is a halogen (in
the same family as fluorine and chlorine). It is one of the most unstable,
created only by radioactive decay, but would look like a powdery black solid if
enough could be accumulated.
The element is mentioned in my novel manuscript (“Angel’s
Brother”). I speculated that inside a virus (which turns out to be like the
coronavirus with spike proteins), it could be stable and enable the formation
of micro black holes to store information from people’s souls for future
immortality inside the bodies of “angels”.
The real coronavirus has become so bizarre that I am starting to wonder if
my “science fiction” will come true. I
remember the existence of the element came up one time when I was substitute teaching
a high school chemistry class. The class had a project to make a short film
about a fictitious element, which it named after its regular teacher (out on family
leave). The kids actually dressed in
costumes representing subatomic particles. The rarest element on Earth is
surely “reltonium”.
Attribution link for picture of astatine-iodide,
Wikipedia, p.d.
“The Clue”, directed by Judie Fenstra, from
Chaos2Love, on Miss Robslyn’s channel, Jan. 2019, 10 minutes, with many festivals
and awards, presents a kind treasure hunt.
The old Howdy Doody puppet show in the 1950s had a
treasure hunt one time. The title of the movie, of course, invokes the board
game.
The picture is of a falls near Route 61 near Lake Superior north of Duluth MN, mine, Oct 1, 2019
“American Psychosis: Chris Hedges on the US Empire of
Narcissism and Psychopathy”, on the UMN channel, directed by Amanda Zackem (15
min).
Well, he talks about the culture of the self, or of
self-aggrandizement, that it is all about you (remember Rick Warren).
The title reminds me of the 2000 series “American
Psycho”.
He talks about the “failure to think critically”, yet critical
thinking can turn inward too much (in fighting “critical theory”).
When you don’t get what you want, you become
vulnerable to a “savior” to seize power. Remember, as David Pakman often says, "they voted for him" (71 million votes for Trump).
He says that poor PoC are worth more to the state (and
companies) as prison labor.
“A life of attainment comes through service”. Jimmy Carter said that in an evening service in
1995 at FBCWDC.
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