S1 E11: Halle Berry Did Nothing Wrong

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S1 E11: Halle Berry Did Nothing Wrong

 
 
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Michael Jones is back again. Get ready for feels, collapse wokeness, Extinction Rebellion, violence ethics, the alienation of frozen pizza, whatever the eff acid communism is, the Green New Deal, questioning the tragedy of the commons narrative, The Left Behind series, and seeking answers to Roy Scranton’s “We’re Doomed, Now What?”

Also plus additionally: His Dark Materials: now with 100% less Sam Elliot. But what we lost in Sam “Eagleton Ron” Elliot, we gained in Lin Manuel “Lin Manuel Miranda” Miranda.

Speaking of Sam “Not Lin Manuel Miranda” Elliot, A Star is Born. Speaking of tragedies, Halle “Neither Lin Manuel Miranda Nor Sam Elliot” Berry’s Catwoman. Speaking of magical weirdness, John “None of the Aforementioned People” Dee and Protestantism and the apocalyptic death cult, and speaking of that, the Left Behind series, and speaking of Left Behind, garbage, by which I mean utter waste.

Enjoy all the tonal incongruity and self-indulgence. I know I did.

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Hey, here’s some stuff I didn’t completely make up: Left Behind >The Kids<, which was a real thing, which was really stylized that way with those dumb angle brackets because the late 90s I guess, and which really was 40 books long (and they planned 8 more, because Christian cocaine was all the rage back then, I can only assume but cannot prove, but come on).

Hey, here’s some more stuff I didn’t completely make up: all the other books and articles I mentioned, which were:

That anthropologist I vaguely alluded to via Derrick Jensen’s A Language Older Than Words? That was Ruth Benedict. These are some of those words:

Ruth Benedict’s question: Why are some cultures “good” and others not?

Benedict found that good cultures, which she began to call “secure,” or “low aggression,” or “high synergy cultures,” could not be differentiated from “surly and nasty” cultures on the basis of race, geography, climate, size, wealth, poverty, complexity, matrilineality, patrilineality, house size, the absence or presence of polygamy, and so on. More research revealed to her one simple and commonsensical rule separating aggressive from nonaggressive cultures, a rule that has so far evaded implementation by our culture: the social forms and institutions of nonaggressive cultures positively reinforce acts that benefit the group as a whole while negatively reinforcing acts (and eliminating goals) that harm some members of the group.

Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words
which I literally just said but ok there it is again

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