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Remember this feeling.

Today is V-Day for a hope long held… a battle long fought.

Rarely do we see persistence pay off for dreamers against the system, common sense, and naysayers.  So this is a miracle.  The planets aligned.  Providence smiling.  Time to rejoice!

Yet it is impossible to maintain our present elation.  And with victory it is easy to become accustomed, take for granted, and let this sense of the miraculous slip away.  And while the outcome is assured, it’s all too easy to stumble before the finish line.  To forget the miracle and this feeling.

Five twenty.

Remember this feeling… for this and the other journeys of your life

Justice League

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is the tree of life

#520

72 – Grail Knight

coverblack[Recorded April 22, 2020]  Decoding MOS and BvS with the story of the Grail. Parallels between the first grail knight, Percival, and the first superhero, Superman.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Arthurian influence on Snyder and Terrio
  • Joseph Campbell’s love of Parzival
  • Arthur, The Grail, and Percival
  • Chrétien de Troyes adds the Grail
  • Percival, Perceval, Percifull, Parsifal, Parzival, Percivel…
  • Faire Unknown motif
  • Contemporary Story for Contemporary Audience
  • Siege Perilous: Destiny & Free Will
  • Becoming The Red Knight
  • Percival and Superman Kill Only Once
  • Cultures of Acceptable Violence
  • Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow
  • Batman & Superman’s Shadow
  • Shadow Consciousness Or Else
  • Societal Expectations: Silencing Of Natural Self
  • Marriage For Love: Western Spirit
  • Silent Champion From Afar
  • Chrétien’s Unfinished Romance
  • And much more!

To learn more:
Le Mort D’Arthur | Thomas Mallory (Armstrong)
Owning Your Own Shadow | Robert A. Johnson
Living An Examined Life | James Hollis
Myths to Live By | Joseph Campbell
Eternal Chalice | Monica Potkay
Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature | Frank Brandsma
King Arthur: History & Legend | Dorsey Armstrong
The Crusades: A History | Jonathan Riley-Smith
Fantastic Creatures | Juliette Wood
Joseph Campbell: A Fire In The Mind | Larsen & Larsen
Carl Jung: Wounded Healer | Claire Dunne

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“The most rewarding mythological experience you can have is to see how it lives in your own psychological structure.”

“We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all times have gone before us. . . . And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.”

71 – Doomsday Pt.4

coverblack[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019, December 7, 2019]  Defeating Doomsday.

BTS: This pre-recorded episode was assembled shortly after Part 3, but was never happy with it.  While waiting on inspiration, it was decided to stop trying to resuscitate recordings from 2017.   Forewarning, the concluding Part 5 is probably never coming and this Doomsday series is abandoned for now.  Nonetheless as this episode was already completed it’s finally being published.  However, a NEW mini-series is already in production, the first episode will be published Friday.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Why didn’t Batman bring the spear to Doomsday instead?
  • Why didn’t Batman immediately go for the spear?
  • Why didn’t Superman defer to Wonder Woman?
  • And more poor questions…

To learn more:
New York Night Sky Turns Bright Blue | NYT

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70 – Doomsday Pt.3

coverblack[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019, December 7, 2019]  Defeating Doomsday.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Why did Batman leave the spear with Lois?
  • Hindsight Bias
  • Batman’s crashed vehicles
  • Lois Competence, Spear In Water, Falling, and Recover Spear
  • If Onlys, Regrets, Time Travel, & Sisyphus
  • Actual Facts versus Abstraction
  • Critics Who Review Films They Didn’t Finish
  • Edit Bay of the Brain / Nostalgia
  • Literature as Ethical Simulators
  • Eucatastrophe
  • Monsters versus Positive Thinking
  • Demonizing and Redemption
  • Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
  • And much more!

To learn more:
Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell
Choiceology: Knew It All Along | Katy Milkman
Hidden Brain: Looking Back | NPR
Empire Podcast| Empire
Imaginary Worlds | Eric Molinsky
Public Health Ethics | James Wilson

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“Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.” – Joseph Cambpell

69 – Wonder Woman ’84 Trailer 1

coverblack[Recorded December 8, 2019]  Wonder Woman 1984 Trailer reaction.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Almost nothing!  No time!
  • Blue Monday “How does it feel?” – Emphasis on emotion again
  • Trash can scene indicates a reprise of Fish-Out-Of-Water

To learn more:

Wonder Woman 1984 Official Trailer | WB
Blue Monday Cover | BBC

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#HowDoesItFeel?

#ReleaseTheSnyderCut

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Adapted from my Introduction to the ForSnyderCut.org site, drafted December 2017 and published January 2018.

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68 – Doomsday Pt.2

coverblack[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019]  Defeating Doomsday.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Temporal Frame of Reference
  • Superman’s Decision-Making
    • Danger to Self / Selflessness
    • Learning and Rational Choices
  • Stakes: Threat to Superman’s Life
  • Doomsday’s Intelligence
    • The Primal Zombie
  • Super-Jumping “Flight” Physics
  • Doomsday’s Genitals
    • Triploids / Lex’s Genetic Contribution
  • Size Strength Bias
  • Bioluminescence
  • Solar Flare Substitute For Evolutionary Power
  • Why Take Doomsday to Space?
    • Why Not Keep Going?
    • Lack of Astronomical / Cosmic Intuitions
  • Why Didn’t Superman Fly Faster?
  • Fantasy User Interfaces (FUI) Canonicity
  • Is Tracking Superman a Plot Hole?
    • Novel Tech
    • Mutual Regard, Competing Interests
    • Consent / Stealth Powers
      • Plasma Stealth
      • Force Field Absorption
  • Time to Thermonuclear Launch
  • Why Didn’t Superman:
    • Dodge The Nuke?
    • Let Go of Doomsday?
    • Return Doomsday to Space After The Nuke?
    • Take Doomsday to the Ocean?
  • Nuclear Strike Reveals Nature of Superman’s Powers
    • Invulnerability – Force Field not Composition
    • Muscle Mass – Biological Default not Built By Exercise
      • Myostatin
    • Regeneration – Two Types
      • “Undead” Genes
  • And much more!

To learn more:

Threat of Ancient Mesopotamian Zombies | STBYM
Boeing AH-64 Apache | Wikipedia
Projectile Use By Non-Human Organisms | Wikipedia
Light On Earth | David Attenborough
Spontaneous Photon Emissions From Humans | Kobayashi
Electric Life Forms Live On Pure Energy | New Scientist
Draper Point | Wikipedia
Cut Travel Time To ISS From 2 Days To 6 Hours | Engadget
Superman Space Suplex | Superman: Doomsday
Man of Steel Spoiler Special | Empire
BvS Fantasy User Interfaces | Perception
Designing Fantasy User Interfaces | PixelHub
Plasma Stealth | Wikipedia
To Launch A Nuclear Strike | Bloomberg
Muscular Baby | New York Times
Thantomicrobiome | Peter Noble
Undead Genes Come Alive Days After Death | Science AAAS

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67 – Doomsday Pt.1

coverblack[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019]  Defeating Doomsday.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Real World Ethics vs. Thought Experiments
  • Why Trinity Didn’t Use Lex to Stop Doomsday?
  • Criminal Liability For Conversion of Extraterrestrial Specimens
  • Thad Roberts and “Sex On The Moon”
  • Valuation of Moon Rocks
  • Liability For Power Grid Disruption
  • And much more!

To learn more:

Theory of Mind Deficiencies | Wikipedia
Sex On The Moon | Ben Mezrich
Where Does NASA Keep Moon Rocks? | Smarter Every Day
Projectile Use By Non-Human Organisms | Wikipedia
Spontaneous Photon Emissions From Humans | Kobayashi

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66 – East

coverblack[Recorded August 8, 2019] Learning from Eastern thought. Seeing much more detail and connection. Comparing high and low context communication. How Superman’s silence can be seen as sophisticated. The Problem of Evil in the East. Harmonizing Batman and Superman.

Based on the research of Dr. Richard E. Nisbett and his book, “The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • East Asians less inclined towards Fundamental Attribution Error (00:04:40)
    • Dr. Richard E. Nisbett (00:07:40)
  • Objects vs. Context (00:17:45)
    • Nouns vs. Verbs (00:18:30)
    • Facial Expression (00:25:11)
    • Michigan Fish Test (00:32:44)
    • High & Low Context (00:36:17)
    • Superman’s Silence (00:48:37)
      • Thinking and Speaking (00:51:03)
      • Counter-Intuitive Wisdom (00:58:02)
      • Modesty and Bragging (01:06:35)
  • Analysis vs. Holism (01:08:49)
    • Comparison (01:09:30)
    • Logic & Paradox (01:15:00)
    • Dialectical Reasoning (01:25:03)
    • Retcons / BvS Critique (01:25:55)
    • Existentialism (01:28:45)
    • Embodied Knowledge & Wisdom (01:43:40)
    • The Problem of Evil (01:57:24)
  • Applied to Batman v. Superman (02:03:24)
    • Lex’s Bad Faith Dilemma (02:07:00)
    • Dialectical Synthesis of Batman & Superman (02:10:55)
  • And much more!

To learn more:

Press
Placing the Face in Context: Cultural Differences in Facial Emotion | Takahiko Masuda
The Michigan Fish Test and the Middle East | Sheena Iyengar
What Does The Michigan Fish Test Say About You? | io9
Eastern and Western Cultures See Emotions Very Differently | University of Alberta
Japanese More Sensitive Than Westerners To The Big Picture | Wired
This Mistake We All Make | Richard Nisbett | The Guardian
Are You A Holistic or Specific Thinker? | Erin Meyer | Harvard Business Review
East & West Part Ways in Test of Facial Expressions | NYT
Zack Snyder’s Superhero Life | Bloomberg
East Versus West | Forbes

Books
Geography of Thought | Richard Nisbett
The Culture Map | Erin Meyer
You May Also Like | Tom Vanderbilt
Hit Makers | Derek Thompson
The Misinformation Age | Cailin O’Connor
Heaven & Earth Are Not Humane | Franklin Perkins

Media
West and East Cultural Differences | EBS
EAST or WEST: Which mindset do you have? | Off the Great Wall
Eastern Philosophers vs Western Philosophers | Epic Rap Battles
Logic & Reasoning | VSauce2
Batman v. Superman: By The Minute
DC Cinematic Minute
Reality | Invisibilia | NPR

Images
Population Perspective | Our World In Data
Population Density | Our World In Data
Interpersonal Trust Attitudes | Our World In Data

Population Perspective
Population Density
Trust Attitudes

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65 – Differ

coverblack[Recorded July 12, 2019] Why do reasonable minds differ? On movies? “Did we even see the same film?” On justice? Why do Superman and Batman always differ? Psychologists weigh in.

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Answers, insights, and commentary on:

  • Naïve Realism
  • Study on Motion Picture Appraisal
  • Correlation with critics
  • Illusions: The dress, shoe, Yanni / Laurel, etc.
  • “They Saw A Game”
  • Moral foundations and affiliations
  • Cultural differences lend perspective
  • The missionary and anthropologist
  • Linguistic effects on cognition
  • Fundamental Attribution Error
  • Disposition versus circumstance
  • Depiction is not endorsement
  • Judging others as disgusting
  • Public Irrationality Thesis
  • Philosophy and Psychology on Character
  • Clark & Diana as role models (combat FAE)
  • And much more!

To learn more:
Strikingly Low Agreement On Movies | Pascal Wallisch
You Are Not So Smart Live | David McRaney
“They Saw A Game” | Hastorf & Cantril
The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt
Through the Language Glass | Lera Boroditsky
This Is Water | David Foster Wallace
Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang
The Culture Map | Erin Meyer
The Character Gap | Christian Miller
Christian Miller: Character Gap | Philosophy Bites
The Callout | Invisibilia
YANSS 157: Pluralistic Ignorance | David McRaney
You May Also Like | Tom Vanderbilt
Conversation with Ross & Nisbett | Think 101
Hit Makers | Derek Thompson

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