[Previously recorded July 15, 2016 and unaired episode] Who returned the checks? Viewing Wallace Keefe’s protest as abstract art. Insight into Bruce’s blindness and Lex’s patterns of speech and ability to exploit the efforts of others.
Answers, insights, and commentary on:
Conjunction Fallacy
Plausible patsy prerequisites
Why is Bruce and Keefe’s wife also on his Superman Wall of Shame?
Bruce is blind
Audience believing checks are enough are blind too
See MOSAIC Brief 0 for explanation.
Recorded on or before 11/30/17.
Not intended for publication.
The views expressed are unrefined and subject to amendment.
Edited solely for length, no additions or alterations.
Intro and outro music performed by The Mad Mass Revolution.
See MOSAIC Brief 0 for explanation.
Recorded 11/16/17.
Not intended for publication.
The views expressed are unrefined and subject to amendment.
Edited solely for length, no additions or alterations.
Intro and outro music performed by The Mad Mass Revolution.
See MOSAIC Brief 0 for explanation.
Recorded 11/14/17.
Not intended for publication.
The views expressed are unrefined and subject to amendment.
Edited solely for length, no additions or alterations.
Intro and outro music performed by The Mad Mass Revolution.
Illuminated manuscripts as insight into things that endure. An alternative approach to characterization. Literary analysis and criticism.
“Transcendent empathy lets us change the world. The kind of world these films challenge us to make. To create a world that would invite Superman with open arms, hearts, and minds. Through a hard look at ourselves as we are now… and actively taking up the responsibility to change.”
Answers, insights, and commentary on:
I. Introduction (0:00)
Disclaimer Not Didactic Not Idolatry
Religious Influence
Introduction to Man of Steel artbook
II. Illumination (9:16)
Illuminated manuscripts
The first books, the first comic books
Reading a graphic novel versus watching a film
Compared to these films:
Focus on Illumination not text
Focus on specificity
Value without adherence
III. Literary Analysis (42:44)
Four prevailing modes:
Text
Authorial Intent
Context
Response
Slow down: Receiving a work as intended
Deeper meaning from works: insight & complexity
Q: Why we analyze? A: Empathy
Power can reduce empathy
IV. Active Empathy (1:02:13)
Passive and Biological Empathy
Biblical approach to character and narrative
Exercise Active Empathy
Transcendent experience of empathy vs. just adding to the continuity pile
New Hollywood parable: Changing minds
Resisting immediate reaction
Tools to change the world:
Reflection, Responsibility, Active empathy, Challenge
Reflect – Can’t take Truth, Justice, & American Way for granted
Truth – Responsible for what is received as truth
Justice – Actively pursue justice
American Way – Challenge the way things are going
V. After Show (1:50:48)
Endnotes
Indy (Indie)
Nostalgic Blockbusters
Minority to mainstream
Robert Alter on names and parallels
Aslan the Lion (not lamb), Superman the Strange Visitor (not boyscout or paragon)
Worship as objectification
Critical thinking instead of manipulating math by default (criticism in a rut)
[Previously recorded July 15, 2016 and unaired episode] Who returned the checks? Viewing Wallace Keefe’s protest as abstract art. Insight into Bruce’s blindness and Lex’s patterns of speech and ability to exploit the efforts of others.
