Tag: Politics
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Encanto: The Anti Lion King
May you live in interesting times. ~Ironic Chinese blessing (apocryphal) The hardest thing to realize is that there is a conflict in the first place. You watch a movie and this movie divides the world into nice, tidy groups: right, wrong, good guys, and bad guys. By and large, the distinctions between these groups are not…
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The Social Construction of Reality by Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann
The question at hand is how does what passes for “knowledge” and “reality” within a given social situation or context achieve this status? How do groups of people come to share an agreed upon “reality?”
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The Problem with Ben Cremer
I first found out about Ben Cremer a few years ago when some mutuals on Facebook started sharing his posts. Then, as now, he was (following in the footsteps of the likes of John Pavlovitz) growing his platform by posting woke “Christian” takes on everything from abortion to BLM. As it turns out, that is…
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The Ego Economy: “Why Should I Care?”
I’ll typically check my social media between sets when I’m at the gym. It’s a bad habit, I know, but it’s harder to quit than smoking. Today, I’m training back and some boomer moron who probably watches CNN every night and hasn’t read a book in fifty years is calling me a “dumb kid” again.
The Barking Years 