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Good point . Early 20th century Delta blues is an important influence for much late 60’s rock(Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Elect...

Those are the main ones I can think of, although do you remember his small but hilarious role in Foul Play as a pathetically horny conductor? Bedazzle...

As was his Ordinary People, in my opinion. He gets slighted as an actor because he tended to shy away from dark or complicated characters, but I thoug...

Dudley Moore seems to fit in with this crowd. I see you left out Judd Apatow and work by his crew (Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Jason Segal, Jay...

This is certainly true, but let me make some arguments in favor of something else at work these days as well. In my own case , I keep coming back to m...

The pace of cultural change is an accelerative curve. If one lives in a culture which belongs to the slower changing portion of that trajectory it is ...

I dont think authenticity and originality can be separated. One doesn't have the urge to create unless what one is conjuring expresses something new f...

What do you think of Peter Greenaway? His films are among the most painterly I’ve seen.

Many pop artists fight against the opposite pressure. The public expects endless regurgitation of the old product and style , while the artist is hell...

If your authentic music is great music, you don’t think it can find its way to a large audience? I do. I think we dont hear great breakthrough music o...

This prompts the question, why does an art form fail to speak to an audience? It can do so if it is lacking in originality, if it is considered boring...

Great score by Leonard Cohen in that first one. What did you think of Brewster McCloud?

Maybe they were right, and the phenomenon has gotten progressively worse. If you google cultural stagnation, you will find dozens of articles on how t...

If it is, I don’t think that formulaic songwriting is the cause so much as a symptom of a decline in originality. If you want to see originality in po...

Everyone has a soft spot for a particular type of movie. The movies which had the biggest impact on my life were made between 1965 and 1973. These wer...

I tend to agree with you about the older Westerns. They upheld the moral values of the times, which the 60’s did their best to overturn. That’s why I’...

No list of classic Woody Allen comedies is complete without Sleeper. https://youtu.be/t0LTTyImnJg

I had the same reaction to Night at the Opera. If you liked those you probably also loved the Court Jester (The Chalice with the Palace has the pellet...

Good list. I would add Stagecoach My Darling Clementine The Wild Bunch The Ballad of Cable Hogue Butch Cassidy ( and so much more!)

Honorable mentions in various categories: All About Eve Whatever Happened to Baby Jane American Graffiti The Year of Living Dangerously The Last Wave ...

Social conservatives would argue that the past 50 years has seen a concerted push to de-masculine males. Men are told to “cry more” and “to let-go of ...

Here ya go: The Last Picture Show Harold and Maude Five Easy Pieces Night of the Hunter Citizen Kane A Thousand Clowns Rear Window Who’s afraid of Vir...

As I mentioned to MU, we lie to each other in situations where there is a lack of trust, intimacy and mutual understanding and often the lie is an att...

Is lying, deceiving, creating a false front animalistic, a base instinct? It’s true that animals and plants have evolved various strategies of decepti...

As you have pointed out, there is much research pointing to a positive association between depression , loneliness and other emotional difficulties, a...

You should be if you want to understand feelings and the dissolution of the hard problem.

And yet the concept of number would be incoherent without the prior construction of the concept of a multiplicity , which itself implies the concept o...

Except that Davidson’s anomalous monism is a non-reductive physicalism, leaving open an explanatory gap between mental events and the physical propert...

You may be familiar with a new breed of psychological and philosophical work on the origin of ethical values that divides the realm of subjective emot...

Pleasure isnt such a simple concept from an enactivist perspective. What constitutes a reinforcement is not determinable independently of the normativ...

Subliminal advertising is a technique that has been explored by marketers from time to time. Some image or text ( or audio stimulus) is displayed on a...

Hilary Putnam makes the argument that if the basis of our valuative, ethical judgements is an evolutionary adaptation shared by other animals then it ...

Yes, I was thinking something similar. Fine begins the essay with “ The concept of essence has played an important role in the history and development...

You are a moral realist. What remains to be determined is whether your universalism concerning this aspect of human nature grounds itself on an evolut...

Maybe no one wants to be a slave, and the concept of slavery is today universally condemned as morally wrong, but that is a recent development. For mo...

And you’re first on the list.

But it seems to me that not only what the dimensions, magnitude and form of the problem are , but whether there is seen to be a problem at all, is det...

I think you’re a natural-born Pragmatist.

There is no such thing as a ‘stimulus’ in some objective sense, as if there were packets of generic meaning floating around the universe just waiting ...

This view seems to rely on agency as knowledge. But this misses the pragmatic nature of interpersonal relations, which have to do primarily not with e...

I agree that Kastrup and Hoffman have points of disagreement with Kantian Idealism. Kastrup, as I read him, is closer to Hegel , and even more so to S...

We need to add a third option. 3. The existence of mental events is conditional on the right kinds of natural events taking place, but to understand h...

I agree with you that if the only options were 1 though 3 this topic would not be very interesting to me. A 4th option , on the other hand, offers an ...

So then it is the eternal return of the same. I’m aware of that. I think Heidegger’s thinking goes beyond Foucault’s , Deleuze’s and Nietzsche’s. Sinc...

I would say that rational egotism is a cultural ‘meme’ that is widely shared within a society rather than being forced upon people in a top-down fashi...

Previously on this thread, I contrasted your analysis of the relation between the self, identity and social conditioning with writers such as George K...

Epiphenomenalism asserts that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, which they have no effect on. It can also apply to a distincti...

The Dawn of Everything , a book by anarchist anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wengrow, claims that the above received wisdom is wro...

A popular thread in anarchist thinking today is that humans are evolutionarily adapted for pro-social behavior, and the Hobbesian assumption that we n...

Hard determinism has worked well for the natural sciences , but it isn’t such a great fit for elucidating psychological processes such as intentionali...