Wake Up Dead Man with Mark Hansher: Radicalization, Control & Countercultural Faith

The movie's over. Let's talk about the priest.Lyndsey and returning guest Mark Hansher dig into Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man — and it turns out there's a lot more going on under the surface than a whodunit. Father Judd might be the most quietly countercultural character either of them has ever seen on screen, and they are not done talking about it.This one goes places: how keeping people afraid and angry is a deliberate power move, what radicalization actually looks like up close, the neuroscience of why triggered people can't think straight, the women who were first to question Wicks and why that's not an accident, what happens to creativity when it gets absorbed into a control-based system, and the moment Benoit Blanc learns something from a priest.Also covered: Christian rock, liberal arts education, the hand model of the brain, Thanos casting as intentional cultural commentary, and why the truth is a lot more durable than we've been led to believe.Topics: religious deconstruction, radicalization, power and control in institutions, countercultural faith