Episode 34 - Hope I'm Funny
Added 2024-06-25 23:16:20 +0000 UTCWelcome to the Lewis Variety Hour. It is just me for this episode so you better all be nice to me.
0:00 - 15:02 Sport as the last great communal spectacle/Insular culture bubbles/England as a failure
15:02 - 34:20 A pre and post-9/11 world/The narrative lies in the mundane
34:20 - 55:43 The philosophy of shocking images/The validity of discovering things through the fringes/The occasional enjoyment of trash
55:43 - 1:05:46 Letterboxd reviews are abysmal
Comments
The one sentence meme reviews are annoying, especially when they overshadow other in-depth purposeful reviews. I still post my own reviews on there as it's a community that will (ostensibly) see it and read it. In regards to the topic of extremity I see what you mean about violent images. One is explicitly violent while another is psychologically violent. Additionally I think exposure plays an important role. When someone sees a beheading video, they're most likely going to be disturbed and not seek out anything like that. With a tik tok video, society is indifferent to people binging that crap every second of their off time. In small doses it appears harmless, but no one is considering the long term effect. I will however have to disagree on the statement that online content is more harmful than reality TV. I think both are harmful but I guess I need a deeper explanation.
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2024-07-02 01:35:08 +0000 UTCI like how one of the topics is "England as a failure" just in time for 4th of July!
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2024-06-29 02:36:23 +0000 UTC
