Here’s a short clip, because we needed some Joseph Campbell today. You can read the full transcript of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘The Hero’s Adventure’ (episode one) here: http://bit.ly/1bhqY02
Category Archives: Humanities
FINE ARTS – SKAGEN REALISM/ IMPRESSIONISM PAINTING: “Peder Severin Kroyer: A Collection of 92 Paintings (HD)” ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Chuck Todd: Bernie And Bannon Are The Same” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur ☮
Chuck Todd thinks that Bernie’s Medicare-For-All bill is the same as Steve Bannon’s racism.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Signs Hillary Clinton is Having a Mental Breakdown” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano, and Ron Placone ☮
ETHICS: “Equality vs. Equity” ☮
h/t:Thinking Art
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH – NEUROSCIENCE: “A Very Hard Question for Religious People” ☮
In this short video Vilayanur Ramachandran describes experiments with split brain patients, people who have had their corpus callosum cut. It is very interesting when he describes what happens when the question of belief in God is posed.
SUPERSTITIOUS SNOWFLAKES: “Ad Featuring Religious Figures Triggers Fundamentalist Snowflakes” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN HYPOCRICY: “Ted Cruz Gets Crucified! Porn Scandal!” / Cult of Dusty / Dusty Smith ☮
The internet destroys Ted Cuz after he accidentally post porn to his twitter.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “White Teens Lynch Biracial Eight-Year-Old Boy” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮
The local police chief said, “These people need to be protected.” He was referring to the lynchers. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “The Great Flood” / truthdig / Chris Hedges / 09.10.2017 ☮
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving behind vast coastal dead zones? Will we retreat even further into magical thinking to cope with the fury we have unleashed from the natural world? Or will we respond rationally and radically alter our relationship to this earth that gives us life?