Stokes presents a blunt discussion about how movies, particularly childrens’ movies, are melding our children, and society in general, in a negative way.
Category: Viewing
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Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs
Rowe shapes a humorous story of castration and enlightenment as he argues that we, as a society, have waged a war on work. We try so hard to avoid work when it is work that allows us to experience “anagnorisis” and “peripeteia” (a great self-discovery of personal identity and a reversal of behavior caused by that discovery).Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs -
Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating
Webb discusses how she found that the the online persona presented through online dating sites often do not match the persona of the real person. She also shares several funny stories.
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Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun
As the highest commander in the Netherlands armed forces, Uhm shares his motivation for choosing a can to promote peace. He suggests that the armed services efforts are invaluable to achieving and maintaining peace world wide. -
Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil
Zimbardo addresses the “why” of evil behavior. Contrary to most thoughts, evil behavior, he suggests, stems not from the individual but from a system that allows an individual to be evil.