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[B Williamscraig @bdwc]

Burwell Aikido will host an international online class with @bdwc devoted to @aikido2pt0 and @ConflictWell this Thu 1/28, 1900GMT Join us?
https://t.co/hBXPnZkVNx

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

"Idea" (really belief), "propaganda", "cult" suggests a reading that has yet to name its genre: myth. Not false, because there is power there, but profoundly and specifically limited by the overall narrative worldview (mythology) in which it lives.

[. @GregTSargent]

1) The idea that Trump's base possesses a kind of limitless power, reach and depth that still remains untapped is a central feature of Trump's propagandistic depiction of his own political invulnerability.

This notion is central to the Cult of Trump.

https://t.co/gS1WnyMp6v

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Technically false but essentially true.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

San Francisco just passed a resolution calling the NRA a 'domestic terrorist organization" https://t.co/6IPWlBmaZ6

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

@washingtonpost Technically false but essentially true.

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Golden Boy. Stone Babe.

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Outright lies aren't always subtle, as "spin" implies. "Congressional Republicans recently circulated talking points on gun violence that falsely described the El Paso massacre and other mass shootings as 'violence from the left.' ”

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

The future of the future.

[Keaton Patti @KeatonPatti]

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page.

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Just the city? Monarchical? Cthulu? Hydra? Images can't help but bring vivid options to the surface.

[Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller]

The 2020 GOP convention logo per the RNC:

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Definitely worth checking out.

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Excellent hought provocation from the Joseph Campbell Foundation

[Joseph Campbell Foundation @jcf_org]

Campbell discusses the differences in the way we perceive morality depending on our cultural and religious context in an especially amusing audio clip titled The 3rd Function of Mythology from the lecture Origins of Western Mythology. Listen now at https://t.co/Mg1XUPIliI.

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Revisiting "great myths" through photographic image.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

With “Liberty Theater,” her fifth monograph, the photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon revisits her uncanny excoriation of the great myths of the South: https://t.co/6HuClJ9Dj1

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Because myth often gets at true expression more precisely than dry statements of fact. https://t.co/95IHg51iO3

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

#girlpower #MythWin https://t.co/plEK83bsUb

[Daily Kos @dailykos]

11-year-old girl: 'We're not animals, but if I was, I would be black panther fighting racism' https://t.co/BRFte6pHxG

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Who owns the conscience of the Athlete-Hero, and the citizens that support or withhold same to vote for a particular future? Freedom of the individual to #dissent vs Control by Powers. Would you want to be able to #TakeAKnee to protest #racist #Violence ? https://t.co/vFjBeKaCOj

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Couldn't be a more obvious battle over a #mythology - a fight for belief through competing narratives, despite the #racism at the core and suppression of #dissent being obvious. https://t.co/aT7yYTzOq1… image by Joe Nicholson/USA TODAY Sports

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Couldn't be a more obvious battle over a #mythology - a fight for belief through competing narratives, despite the #racism at the core and suppression of #dissent being obvious. https://t.co/aT7yYTzOq1… image by Joe Nicholson/USA TODAY Sports

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Gotta study how mythologies (belief systems) work, a bit, before you can decide what to do about it. https://t.co/f8Spyfg4LT Illustration by Sabine Formanek

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Fiction is a doorway to understanding the real. https://t.co/LM283QXZpb

[Kevin Bankston @KevinBankston]

An even more interesting than usual post from @doctorow (and that’s saying a lot) about the relationship between #scifi’s fictional futures and our very real present. https://t.co/BDwBSn2Kct

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Myth tools! What will you use them for? https://t.co/nkFvoRPhxj

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

The Joseph Campbell Foundation's myth resources: https://t.co/1ckWGPN5yI #myth #story #narrative #framing #systemsthinking #processarts @bdwc @jerrymichalski @fer_ananda @LivLarsson1 @tomatlee

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

@neilhimself on Story for humanity https://t.co/qxkxb3HGut

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.”

@neilhimself on how stories last: https://t.co/aNUb0RrPtS

[B WilliamsCraig @DoctorMyth]

Narrative intervention. https://t.co/FE9ZJTU4kM