February 3
1h 12m

Episode Description

We sneak into Brad Pitt’s “Troy” and discuss:

  • Cinematography, scale;
  • Story & Writing, themes, war, love, immortality;
  • and other such stuff and things and stuff.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. – John Steinbeck

Notes & References:
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Bastiat’s “That which is seen and that which is unseen” / Broken window fallacy (not to be conflated with “broken window theory” about policing) – Bastiat.org
Parable of the broken window (wiki) – illustrates why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society

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This Week’s Recommendations:

“Take Me Back to Eden” by Sleep Token / “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton (Amazon)

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