Episode 288 – Kabuki Theater

Well, we keep getting fooled again and again. Why do we even believe anything in the digital realm?

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Referenced in the Podcast

• Semiquincentennial – look it up
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Days of Thunder
• Day After Tomorrow
• 2012
• Greenland
• Earthquake
• Gell Mann Amnesia
  • Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. — Michael Crichton
• CJ Hopkins – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Normal Reich
• Michelle Stone
• New Guide to Help Implement September 6 Class Schedule Changes

Hebrews – Christ is outside (ἔξω, exo, outside, without) the camp:

Hebrews 13:10-13 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.