Burwell Aikido will host an international online class with @bdwc devoted to @aikido2pt0 and @ConflictWell this Thu 1/28, 1900GMT Join us?
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"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.
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.
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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.' ”
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
���Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.”
@neilhimself on how stories last: https://t.co/aNUb0RrPtS