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Been a student. Been a clerk. Been a salesperson. Been a manager. Been a teacher. Been an expatriate. Am a husband, father, and chronicle.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • I only recommend to follow your interests. Reading the blurbs will ruin nothing. I saw the Power of Nighmares, then found out about Century of the Self. HyperNormalisation came out soon after I finished those. I have so many more to see.

    This was nearing the end of my "predominantly documentaries" phase of viewing films. I was geographically limited in being able to access them as freely.

    Now, I'm piling a lot of information into my head from books. My focus is on Canada's journey toward Reconciliation, the crime of genocide, and the power structures that facilitate crimes against humanity.

    Like, I know I should just read Hannah Arendt, but I havent gotten to her yet.

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  • Favourite? Kondiaronk as introduced to me by Graeber and Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything.

    I have spent 6 years reflecting on the state of European society and I still can’t think of a single way they act that is not inhuman and I generally think this can only be the case as long as you stick to your distinctions of “mine” and “thine.” I affirm that what you call “money” is the devil of devils, the tyrant of the French, the source of all evils, the bane of souls and slaughterhouse of the living. To imagine one can live in the country of money and preserve one’s soul is like imagining one can preserve one’s life at the bottom of a lake. Money is the father of luxury, lasciviousness, intrigues, trickery, lies, betrayal, insincerity—of all the world’s worst behavior.

    Most ... (I don't even know what to say about this guy except to say I'm surprised he exists): Adrian Carton de Wiart

    Just... look him up. Served in six wars including BOTH World Wars.

    YouTube videos have titles including, "The Unkillable Soldier", "The Man Who Would Not Die", "Invincible".

    Actually, here's one quote from the top of his Wikipedia page:

    He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. He was also blinded in his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and ripped off his own severely injured fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."

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  • My friend, an Adam Curtis festival deserves to happen. I'd be down to help make it happen online.

    The views I have done:

    • Hypernormalisation
    • The Century of Self
    • The Power of Nightmares
    • The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
    • Everything Is Going According to Plan (Collab with Massive Attack)

    The views I have yet to do:

    • Bitter Lake
    • TraumaZone
    • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
    • Shifty
    • Pandora's Box

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  • I wish I had the spare $200 for it. Ill have to pick it up used or from collector in, like, 4 years.

    Really, though, my discretionary $200+ spent on a single book — at this point — would go to Le Pater. I dig Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau.

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  • Better than the rest

    • The Wire & Homicide: Life on the Street (David Simon Box Set)
    • Atlanta
    • The Expanse

    Comedy

    • NewsRadio (for Maura Tierney and Dave Foley and Phil Hartman and Khandi Alexander and Vicki Lewis and Stephen Root)
    • Schitt's Creek
    • Ted Lasso (Seasons 1 and 2)
    • Murphy Brown
    • Sex Education

    Sci-Fi

    • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    • Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)
    • Dark
    • Devs
    • Altered Carbon (Season 1)

    Drama

    • The Newsroom
    • Law & Order (seasons 1-8)
    • Succession
    • Severance

    Intense Drama (TV-MA and little levity)

    • Chernobyl
    • Adolescence
    • Utopia
    • MR. ROBOT
    • Luther
    • True Detective (Season 1)
    • Vince Gilligan Box Set (Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad & Plur1bus (has levity))
    • Ozark

    Anthology shows

    • Black Mirror
    • Love Death + Robots

    Animated

    • Rick and Morty
    • Samurai Jack (2001-2004, 2017)
    • Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)
    • Gravity Falls
    • South Park
    • Neon Genesis Evangelion
    • Final Space

    Perpetually on deck for me

    • Fargo
    • Andor
    • Band of Brothers
    • Barry
    • Legion
    • Letterkenny
    • Bojack Horseman
    • Scavenger's Reign
    • Fringe

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  • This show. This has one of the greatest poetry readings in TV history built into it. The build up, the absolute crescendo to the end of this show was a feat.

    Yes. Yes to devs.

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  • Century of the Self should be required viewing. Adam Curtis made the film/series modernity needs.

  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • It's a guilty pleasure of mine, too. I'm not ashamed. I like what I like.

  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • You monster.

    That movie, in my mind, hinges on the premise, delivered by Stanley Tucci: "but what if we could?"

    I know he's not the first and won't be the last, but damn if that didn't annoy me back in '03. It was just so.. gutless as a sci-fi explainer.

  • Recommend shows with Claudia Black

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  • Ok, I'll be the first to recommend it...

    I really like Final Space. I like how much Olan Rogers fought for this show. I thought it was pretty trite until the end of S01. Though, one of the most gut-punch moments in the series comes at S01E06.

    Mind you, that's one.

    It's a show with heart, strong character arcs, appropriate stakes, wit, and a charm all its own.

    Olan Rogers didnt get to finish this as show, but the graphic novel closer just dropped. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick one up used somewhere because I can't justify $175 for a book unless it's for an academic degree.

    Her character doesn't show up until S02. She's a total badass.

  • What sort of personality would you call this?

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  • Friends, sure, and hopefully family, are different. We are a social species. Beyond that, it sounds like you have a lovely child and some wonderful kids in their orbit.

    Below is a long winded way of getting to this point: people stuck at Kohlberg's stage 2 are not behaving maturely, they're behaving like children. This arrested development helps to explain why a person would put people into their phone contacts as transactional arrangements rather than as humans with names. Its jerkyy, childish behaviour

    Notably, however, in an intensely transactional world, such behaviour is REWARDED. As such confers a selective advantage. So does throwing a well-timed tantrum, playing dumb, lying, flattering, and being intensely selfish.

    That said...

    Watch your children closely. Mind their interactions. The more people they know, the more they realize they dont know everyone, and as they see more interactions and develop a wider array of desires, some people will become a means to an end.

    Taking Kohlberg's view, children are pre-adolescent. The next stage of moral development takes place during adolescence. For some it'll be earlier. For some, later or never.

    When your 5-year old, or 15-year old, hates you and screams at you for not being the means to their achievable end, that's stage 2. Same when a 45-year old berates a server for getting their drink order wrong. Or, when people are reduced to their functions: If they're using you for your pool and trampoline, and refuse to learn your name, that's stage 2.

    Keep in mind also there are overlapping theories of development, some of which describe behaviour better than others in similar situations. Hence, "theory" and not "law." Eric Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, Lev Vygotsky's theory of social development, and more are out there.

    As the parent of two kids under 10, as a teacher to approximately 5000 variously-aged children in the past 19 years, and as a former sales and customer service rep, all people are capable of behaving like "ones who are not psychologically, physically, socially, or legally mature enough to be held responsible for their own actions." There are adults with diminished capacity, or who can be held not criminally responsible under this definition. However, for the most part, it will serve.

    • Psychologically mature: ability to regulate internal emotional states while simultaneously interacting with exterior stimuli including others' psychological states; affected by physical, social, and emotional conditions moment to moment.
    • Physically mature: let's go with 21 for this one. For legal reasons. 24 for Montessori reasons. 25 for insurance reasons.
    • Socially mature: able to let go of the "main character" perspective and recognize that society is made of many main characters. Sonder, as defined by the Dictionary of Obsucre Sorrows, is not a problem for socially (and psychologically) mature people.
    • Legally mature: follows from most of the above, but still affected by the previous statements about "diminished capacity, or ... be[ing] held not criminally responsible".

    Any of these immaturities can be problematic. All of them together is the license we give children as they develop. If, by adulthood (25 at the OUTside), they're really struggling to exhibit maturity in more than one of these, I'd wonder what happened in childhood to cause that. Anti-social or asocial? Sociopathy risk. Psychologically immature? Risking psychopathologies.

    This is a long winded way of getting to this point: people stuck at Kohlberg's stage 2 are ... wait, I moved this section up top. But the next part bears repeating:

    Notably, however, **in an intensely transactional world, such behaviour is REWARDED. As such confers a selective advantage. So does throwing a well-timed tantrum, playing dumb, lying, flattering, and being intensely selfish. **

    The world is broken we just live in it.

    They are using people as a means to an end; **selfish narcissists with diminished capacity for empathy, responsibility, and reason who want what they want when they want it **— and will kick, scream, cry, yell, and engage in spite until you give in and they give nothing in return. Like a newborn would. We don't blame newborns.

    (And, I don't really think newborns engage in spite. It's just funny to think it. After the fact, of course. Because, as you know, when you have a newborn, you might think they pooped three times in three diapers in three minutes, and once on the floor, out of spite. You'd be wrong. But you wouldnt be faulted for the thought.)

    The first book I ever read about psychopaths and narcissists is still my favorite. My partner struggles with her narcissism. She gave me the book. It's probably why we're still together. It bugs me, still. But, since I'm an introverted masochist who has first-daughter tendencies (exampled by this very post), challenge accepted.

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  • This is how children see the world.

    Usually, people develop beyond this and see the utility of having relationships that are defined by their social depth, shared experiences and values, and aesthetic qualities.

    Look also at Kohlberg's stages of moral development. (Sorry for the Wikipedia article link. But, still, it's a start. If I can find a different resource, I'll edit.)

    The people youre describing are stuck at stage 2.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Yeah, true.

    But it's VERY pretty. Like, extraordinarily pretty. Zack Snyder pretty.

    Vapid, sure. But, so nice to look at.

    Sometimes, you go for eye candy.

    Hiro Murai, Tom Ford, Denis Villeneuve, and Jordan Peele do smart and pretty. At least, their directors of photography support the smart with pretty.

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  • Try out Brick (2005). Mystery and set in a high school with fun, noir-specific language. Same guy wrote and directed the Brothers Bloom (2013) and Knives Out (2019 and 2020), which is some fun mystery.

    Nope (2022) and Get Out (2017), Parasite (2018), the Prestige (2004), and Primal Fear (1994) are all great thrillers.

    You might also like Shane Black's movies. Funny, some action, The Last Boyscout (1991) and the Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) are guilty pleasures he wrote. Links are fun samples.

    Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) and The Nice Guys (2018) are quite solid later work that he wrote and directed.

    Romcom/ light sci-fi? Her (2015)

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  • Give us a few to go on, OP.

    i.e. Sci-Fi

    • Arrival
    • 2001
    • Dune (2021)

    i.e. Crime

    • Heat
    • Sicario
    • Brick

    i.e. Non-Blockbuster Comic Book

    • Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    • Comic Book Villains
    • Dredd (2012)

    i.e. Beautiful/Painful international

    • Dancer in the Dark
    • Incendies
    • La Vita e Bella

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    Colbert, Only in Monroe, undeniable.

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  • Good eye, thanks!

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    Colbert, Only in Monroe, undeniable.

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  • This thread deserves Dancer in the Dark. Another film that I love but cannot recommend.

    Set up your depression-treatment space beforehand. You're going to be there a while. Beauty and tragedy so tightly bound that it feels monumental.

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    eightpix @lemmy.world

    Which of Gossip Goblin's "The 13 Cycles of Humanity" do you think we are trending toward? TW: body horror, AI generated video (think, Terry Gilliam).

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    What X-mas themed things do people who hate X‐mas like?

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    Request: An image or animated zoetrope that shows the corpo-media-police industrial complex.