Stop frontin! We each have a favorite Disney movie. I actually was also all about the cartoons that were on after my little sister and I came back from school. Remember ‘Duck Tales,’ ‘Goof Troop,’ ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Dark Wing Duck?’ Hells yeah!
Whether you realize or not, or accept it or not, the Disney conglomerate has had a gigantic influence on our culture for generations. ‘Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power’ tries to break down the negative influence that company has had.
The doc primarily focuses on how big the reach is of Disney, distortion of history, negative reinforcement of female self-image, and the reinforcement of racial stereotypes.
Above is the first of the five parts it is broken down on YouTube. Link: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Married to the Eiffel Tower allows us to learn of those that have romantic relationships with inanimate objects.
The two ladies that the doc highlights, speak of all their past relationships in detail. Their ex’s include a bow, a bridge, a building, a fence, an organ, a carnival ride, a wall and obviously a tower. We also see them making love to them, not explicitly (so sfw).
All subjects are convinced that their emotions are reciprocated. Beyond sex, there are many other forms of communications between the human and the object — flirting, breaking up, etc.
Is this normal? I don’t like being the first to judge. But the two women did have a pretty crappy childhood. And one was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Above is the first ten minutes. The entire vid can be seen in two parts at Veoh: 1, 2.
I know I know myself really well. My strengths include being able to pick up languages with ease, patience, and I save most my money for rainy days. By the same token, I don’t have any issue admiting my weak attributes. I have a road rage problem, I am very conscious about having so many gray hairs at such a young age, and I would make a great candidate for a cult recruit.
As smart as I’d like to think I am, I am pretty impressionable. I know I’d drink the Kool Aid. So I emphathize with those that are ‘stuck’ in cults, and are totally brainwashed.
But I honestly don’t understand how this ugly, skinny and weird-talking old dude, Michael Travesser, has so many people eating out of the palm of his hands? The followers gave up all their money to him and he is banging all of their wives!
NatGeo’s Inside a Cult makes no sense. But certainly intriguing.
Wikipedia:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book was broadcast on PBS in July 2005, produced by the National Geographic Society.
According to the author, an alternative title would be A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years. But the book is not merely an account of the past; it attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others, while attempting to refute the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that: the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences amplified by various positive feedback loops; and that, if cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), it is only so because of the influence of geography.
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