For a certain generation, The Transformers: The Movie (1986) is a traumatic and horrible experience that defined childhood forever. Consider the opening: https://youtu.be/4lo7JPLJUUU We are in space. An eerie, haunting theme plays as, from between two suns, a distant object approaches. It grows closer, and we see it is a large grey sphere, surrounded by spikes, and [...]
I watched Star Wars with a group of teens, most of whom had never seen it before. Here are some of their questions and remarks: --Is Yoda in this movie? --Does anyone read that? (referring to the opening crawl) --Is this one A New Hope? (we were watching the Silver Screen edition, which doesn't have Episode [...]
Jordan Bernt Peterson was born in 1962, holds a B.A. in political science, and a PhD in psychology. He teaches at the University of Toronto. Like a lot of smart people, he was a very successful and interesting figure in his own field, who then decided to branch out and start bloviating about other fields [...]
Something that has existed since, well, probably forever (even though this paragraph originally started 'Something that's become more and more of a problem...', it's almost certainly been an forever), is the problem of intellectual laziness. If you've only glanced at a complicated topic, something that people have doctorates in, have written long books about, have [...]
Literal Machines 