EPISODE · May 7, 2024 · 1H 32M
Decoding Culture (5-6-24)
from Luke Ford · host Luke Ford
01:00 Where does culture come from? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/terry-eagleton/where-does-culture-come-from 02:00 Literary critic Terry Eagleton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton 06:00 My favorite songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_xDytEB1Q&list=PLhQp0uq1786ISg586sYF7k8cDug1-avU0 12:00 American Hearts by Air Supply 15:00 Work sucks - what could salvage it?, https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/work-sucks-what-could-salvage-it 28:00 Simon Kuper: Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?, https://www.ft.com/content/4e319ddd-cfbd-447a-b872-3fb66856bb65 32:00 Christians vibrate to the word 'love' while Jews vibrate to the word 'law' 38:00 Almost all of our thoughts and feelings come from society 40:00 Culture vs politics 60:00 Non-Americans Are Revealing The Ways They Can “Spot An American Tourist From A Mile Away”, https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/weird-things-american-tourists-do-gd 1:06:15 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about tipping and Facebook marketplace 1:09:00 Dublin, CA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California 1:13:00 Elliott's encounter with a woman with lobster claws for arms 1:29:00 My Tiktok, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford613/ My analysis: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154961 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-criminal-law-not-apply-to-college-campus-protests/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/walter-kirn/678187/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/pen-america-writers-gaza-israel/678272/ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/a-generation-of-distrust https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-02/online-sleuths-rush-to-identify-the-men-who-attacked-ucla-camp
What this episode covers
01:00 Where does culture come from? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/terry-eagleton/where-does-culture-come-from 02:00 Literary critic Terry Eagleton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton 06:00 My favorite songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_xDytEB1Q&list=PLhQp0uq1786ISg586sYF7k8cDug1-avU0 12:00 American Hearts by Air Supply 15:00 Work sucks - what could salvage it?, https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/work-sucks-what-could-salvage-it 28:00 Simon Kuper: Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?, https://www.ft.com/content/4e319ddd-cfbd-447a-b872-3fb66856bb65 32:00 Christians vibrate to the word 'love' while Jews vibrate to the word 'law' 38:00 Almost all of our thoughts and feelings come from society 40:00 Culture vs politics 60:00 Non-Americans Are Revealing The Ways They Can “Spot An American Tourist From A Mile Away”, https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/weird-things-american-tourists-do-gd 1:06:15 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about tipping and Facebook marketplace 1:09:00 Dublin, CA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California 1:13:00 Elliott's encounter with a woman with lobster claws for arms 1:29:00 My Tiktok, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford613/ My analysis: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154961 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-criminal-law-not-apply-to-college-campus-protests/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/walter-kirn/678187/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/pen-america-writers-gaza-israel/678272/ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/a-generation-of-distrust https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-02/online-sleuths-rush-to-identify-the-men-who-attacked-ucla-camp
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