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56 Seconds for all you ‘Portlandians’ (specifically), but really anyone … I just love his YouTube channel. Has anyone been?
Slavoj Žižek Is A Complicated Dude
Earlier this week a friend introduced me to Slavoj Žižek - and specifically, he referenced The Perverts Guide To Cinema. I started watching and suddenly realized that it was over 2 1/2 hours long. I saved to ‘watch later’! Seriously - watch the first 5 to 10 minutes - you can’t just stop and never return … BUT … life does have a limited duration!
I commented on this to my friend … he responded …
I had no idea it was that long! There is not enough alcohol in New Zealand to get you (let alone two of you) through 2.5 hours. This six-minute piece is more than enough to convey Zizek’s characteristic mannerisms (mental and physical). And he neatly endorses the critique of “the fetishism of action” by reversing Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach: “In the 20th-century we tried to change the world too quickly, it’s time to go back to interpreting it.” Big Think
I haven’t watched it yet … still trying to understand my friend’s reply 😂
Running … Up That Hill
I recently had a good email exchange with Nick Milo (LYT) after a newsletter he wrote that depended a lot on Running Up That Hill.
As a private exchange, I am not going to reveal the conversation, but rather make the observation that Kate Bush’s Running Up The Hill not only gained renewed momentum in the UK/US Music charts …. It also seems to have pushed Kate back into the limelight.
Kate will turn 64 years old later this month … it is never too late.
Beyond that, clearly, something else is going on. Detailed below are just three of many more links that I have read recently. Articles by writers I read regularly that each in their own way have latched on to the phenomena.
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William Gallagher - always a good read gave us; Seeking out strange new worlds, and liking them..
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Rick Beato - with a 10 a minute breakdown of the original song.
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The Brisbane choir - always worth a watch have their take on the song.
Trust, Autonomy, Identity, Privacy and Agency.
It’s 30 seconds long and nails it.
🎶 It’s a cover of Alan Parson’s Eye In The Sky.
… a very good cover - and with just two people performing.
You will only be disappointed if you don’t like the original to begin with.
Try and watch without at least smiling, probably chuckling and maybe even joining along!
Lore - What Is It Good For?
Apparently - absolutely everything, (with apologies to Edwin Star). That said, a really GREAT series of articles by Venkatesh Rao on ‘Lore’ The Index To The Series
This is Part 7 of 7 : 🔗 Towards Management Metamodernism , from which I quote;
Just as Wallace noted, in 1993, that literary writing was increasingly substituting TV-watching for observation of life (which, as he pointed out, was understandable, since life itself was about sitting on a couch watching television), by 2007 or so, on the threshold of the global financial crisis, “external reality” to leaders meant the output of the literary-industrial complex.
💬 Venkatesh Rao - Ribbon Farm
(My bold reminding me of the UK series Gogglebox - an entire show where we the viewers watched other viewers watch television!)
Ezra Klein talking to Dan Olson.
🔗 The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I’ve Heard.
🔗 Bonus Video from Dan that I haven’t (yet) watched - but now in the queue after listening to the podcast.
.. and then 🔗 there’s this, which is a piece in Time where a crypto expert responds.
Interesting watch
🔗 Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? - YouTube
The real and unadulterated truth? This might be it - I just don’t know.
But if it is … well I wouldn’t be surprised.
Andrew Yang … Pay The F$#^*ing Artist
Wasn’t he the dude espousing UBI in the Dem run ups?
I guess we are going to need it if people like him maintain this story that we need to work for free to raise our exposure … payment be damned.
The artist should pay attention to Harlan Ellison
Werner Erhard on Happiness .. and I know it’s wrong - but as I read it - 🎶 🎵Ken Dodd kept surfacing in my mind.
Buying some bread rolls - or at least buying some bread rolls if the real world behaved like the internet.
Experimenting With Footnotes
🚧 I wanted to write this post as a permanent test of applying ‘footnotes’ on my blog.
Here in the time line it is almost certainly going to look weird if there isn’t a title - but the idea is to improve the reading experience on the site - and then of course explore what it might look like in an RSS feed.
Post Posting
The footnotes aren’t coming through hyperlinked. YET!
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📺 What Is Truth?
I recently watched the TV series of Fargo seasons and came to realise that the ‘True Story’ theme of Fargo … where none of it is true … is itself a theme throughout.
It explores what different characters believe is their truth … and who are we to judge?
Example Scenes
Final Scene - Part One - of Final Episode of Series 3 of Fargo
Final Scene - Part Two - of Final Episode of Series 3 of Fargo
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
Albert Camus
Side Note
The actor who played Varga in Series 3 ( David Thewlis )has just popped up in a new series - Landscapers with another favourite of mine - Olivia Colman.
Landscapers is a true story - not like Fargo truth - real truth! Proving that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Web 3 - Whatever That Is!
To understand what I mean - you might want to check out this earlier post. Meanwhile, on my personal thoughts microblog, I have been collecting a series of links - you can find them here.
Meanwhile, I was thinking that it probably makes more sense to include them on this blog. Thus we have a new living post, starting with that list and expanding - as I find then - below.
Probably the most important blog that relates to this post is
Web3 Is Going Just Great
Added March 11th
World’s ‘First NFT Vending Machine’ Didn’t Work And Neither Did The NFTs
Original Links
Why Web3 matters - by John Henderson - The Idea Exchange
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs - YouTube
So … what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Group’s Jarrod Dicker - Recode Media
The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Startups
The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content - by Li Jin
Web3's Instant Rush to Centralization
Matt Birchler summarizing Moxie’s piece
Via Doc Searls ...
10 flying cars by 2025youtu.be/mt3bT6GN6…)
It’s a 2020 video - so I suspect that the target date has changed - but still - am I the only person to see a problem?