With 15 minutes left, she’s invented something new: standup tragedy
Many were surprised by the poignant, personal sharing of experience by Gadsby in the final 15 minutes. She brought the laughter to a grinding halt and left many in the audience in emotional pieces. She particularly described an experience of hers being sexually assaulted in her hometown and how the men who violated her essentially acted like animals. https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611?source=35
Martin Scorsese’s ‘‘The Last Temptation of Christ’’
Scorcese mentions the disdain the catholic church had for this film of his in a roundtable discussion with fellow directors. The film was pulled from many theaters at the time but is now considered one of Scorcese's most challenging pictures: https://youtu.be/4iLtjMwkOlg
Though he has yet to return to the subject in earnest since 1976’s The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins remains a specter over discussions of internet memes. The study, in which Dawkins extends evolutionary theory to cultural development, has been elaborated upon as well as critiqued in the three decades since its publication, spawning the field of memetics and drawing ire from neurologists and anthropologists alike. In The Selfish Gene and in memetics at large, “memes” are components of culture that survive, propagate, and/or die off just like genes do. Memetics in general is uninterested in why these components survive, or the contexts that allow them to do so—and much as individual persons are considered unwitting actors within the gene pool at large, so too are our intentions deemed irrelevant when it comes to the transmission of culture.
paragraph where Jackson does some good describing, thus where I will extract my poem from.
League of Nations.
It is true that while many flaunt the famous saying "don't let history repeat itself", in many ways with regard to world peace and order... we have. We are running into the same issues that spawned WWI and WWII with the LoN. The only difference is the countries that are failing to comply and the name of the "world peace ensurer". It's now just called the United Nations. And the US as well as the commonwealth are largely being just as passive as they were in world war times. Instead of appeasing a volatile Germany, it is now China that is being allowed to get away with murder as long as they don't go to war with the world. So there is some truth to Forster's reference here. While this explanation has little to do with the wider intention of the essay, I believe it's important to know the contexts to some of the author's references.