Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Jamie Hanshaw joins me to discuss B movies that actually have a meaning and a message – often not what you expect. In this slaptastic conversation, we cover: The Stuff, Demon Seed, Running Man, Ghoulies, Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned. I guarantee you will be surprised what these films actually reveal…
This is the first half of the show, free, while paid subscribers receive full talks for 4.95 a month or 60.00 yearly. Jamie Hanshaw joins me to discuss B movies that actually have a meaning and a message – often not what you expect. In this slaptastic conversation, we cover: The Stuff, Demon Seed, Running Man, Ghoulies, Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned.
Children growing up in consumerist, Western societies are brought up in a culture of cheap conveniences that appease their appetites and starve their cells of living nutrition. Practically every holiday in America is celebrated in the same way: in reverence of candy and junk food.
We have a place, an everyday stake in American culture. Being immersed, we fail to notice what forces feed our culture and how those forces are directed. It just is. That culture is the sum total of ways of living and thinking built up by groups controlling its transmission over time and over generations.
Who has that control and what are they doing with it?
What if billionaires hold fast to bullion as ferociously as those of modest means cling to God and guns? Assuming history survives, what if it turns out America’s permanent legacy comes down to 1) adoration of money and 2) avarice for stuff? No longer the progress that lifts humankind, not heroic confrontations with earth-shaking (climate) challenges, nary a Congressional vote for the greatest good for the greatest number.
"As I travel around America, I’m struck by how utterly powerless most people feel."-- Robert Reich, in a new blogpost, "WhySo Many Americans Feel So Powerless" by KenThe former labor secretary begins with three cases he diagnoses as examples of people feeling powerless:
You and I constitute the very system that we blame for the world’s problems, which is starkly illustrated at Christmas when we rob our fragile earth on the high streets in the name of Jesus. What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ this year than to unite under the banner of freedom and justice, and peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world, writes Mohammed Mesbahi.
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On October 23, 2013, Russell Brand appeared to crash through the filter system protecting the public from dissident opinion.
As businesses increasingly embrace a not-for-profit culture, an end to overconsumption on a finite planet could finally be in sight. But given the huge lobbying power of vested interests, it will remain impossible to create a truly sustainable world until the illegitimate power of corporations is held in check.
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As further evidence comes to light of how our economic systems are decimating the natural world, sharing is fast emerging as the central theme in the discourse on how to ensure prosperity for all within planetary boundaries.
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