Xiran Jay Zhao is a writer living in Canada. But it was Disney who brought her to make a YouTube channel, the remake of “Mulan” to be exact. She was disappointed by this movie and everything it did culturally wrong. Let’s take a look at what she has to say:
Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide.
When cars were first introduced to the American public they were portrayed as the new, exciting, invention of the future. Quickly, the world seemed to be built around them with roads popping up everywhere and sidewalks being dismantled to make more room. But, what seemed like it would be a futuristic utopia has turned into a nightmare. No one walks anymore, we are more isolated from each other than ever before, and driving has become a dangerous and tedious task.
Our live is all about stories, so have you ever wondered what is probably the oldest story we know?
Long before the Epic of Gilgamesh, before the Proto-Indo-Europeans, before the last mini-ice age, before the well-known Australian aboriginal stories, before that our ancestors were hunter-gatherers and told stories about their lives, what caused them to try the understand the world around them.
So what is the oldest story ever told? Well, one story was so popular it still exists today, and researchers call it the Cosmic Hunt. This video explains how we found out that this is the oldest story in the world, how it evolved and varied around the world, and how we can recreate it. A history that we can date with some accuracy, given the time scales, and that has produced many variants in Eurasia and America. It’s probably the oldest story we know, but that doesn’t mean an older one couldn’t be reconstructed, and that’s what will be touched upon.
There is a body of good research on the subject, some of which I have mentioned below, with stories of a hunter or hunters tracking down a large animal before something happens that affects the cosmos and the night sky.
Welcome to a world where humans eat birds, mammoths, gods and heroes, and welcome to the cosmic hunt!
Crecganford is a channel from an academic producing videos discussing Indo-European mythology, history, and culture. From the Vikings to the Vedas, from Zeus to Zoroastrianism, and from Sacrifices to Spirituality. We talk about Europe’s earliest people, the farmers, the Proto Indo-Europeans, and the cultures and religions that followed.
The main publications he refers to in this video are:
The Cosmic Hunt: Variants of a Siberian-North American Myth by Yuri Berezkin
A cosmic hunt in the Berber skies: a phylogenetic reconstruction of a Paleolithic mythology by Julien d’Huy
The Constellation of Orion and the Cosmic Hunt in Equatorial Africa by Vincent Vieira
On the Cosmic Hunt in North Eurasian Rock Painting by Enn Ernits
Scientific American also published an article by Julien d’Huy in December 2016 which is easy to read, although there is a fee to do so.
Gender critical, aka TERF, views are a pipeline to more radicalization issues, and transphobia is being weaponized to stoke authoritarianism, so we need to discuss it.
In this we combine four videos from Jessie Gender, where she talks about Transphobia in direct reaction of statements by JK Rowling and later William Shatner. In the first place the statements were Tweets, then an essay Rowling wrote. Around the same time Shatner made his statement. The videos are about two years old, but nothing has changed since then. If there was any change, it was to the worse. We fear that all this comes up somewhen soon, so here are Jessie’s views:
This series was also last mentioned by Jessie Gender: Join Maggie Mae Fish, as she dips her toe into the Snyderverse, which is like the regular universe with all the fun sucked out. In this first video, she gives an explanation of what cinematic language/grammar is, and we talk about Superman a bunch.
The second video in the mini-series The Enforcement of Hierarchies. Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, we need to confront what patriarchy is and what patriarchy is not. This video will explain the basics in clear, unambiguous terms, and the next video will be about Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights.
Renegade Cut is a video essay series about news, politics and popular culture. A series of videos from Renegade Cut was last mentioned by Jessie Gender. So we present them in this place. And we have to realize that there are a lot of important voices out there.
Social hierarchies rank groups of people, grant superior status to some, and oppress others. In this mini-series, these social hierarchies will be examined, criticized and exposed. My hope is that this mini-series will be helpful to beginners and experts alike. This video serves as an introduction. Subsequent videos in this series will be much longer, and each will focus on a specific social hierarchy. With the escalating reactionary movement in the culture, the streets and the Supreme Court, an education in the topic is more critical than ever.
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