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Philosophy, history, and Orthodox Christianity; Home of the Roots of Everything podcast and the main content hub for the work of Zachary Porcu.
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Nicholas Kotar Pt.1: Modern vs. Mythic Stories (opens the original)
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We finally have Dn. Nicholas Kotar on to cap off our series of interviews about storytelling. We discuss how modern fantasy and science-fiction are specifically modern forms of stories, how individualism and transhumanism plays into this, and how myth must necessarily be something different. Read more
Storytelling Ep.6: Afterparty (opens the original)
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Chat asks me for a bunch of takes, and we end up talking about Arrival (2016), old and new anime alike, Power Rangers, 90s Television shows, and the whole conundrum where good movies don’t need remakes but bad movies do. Read more
Storytelling Ep.6: Where are the Good Stories? (opens the original)
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Given the moral framing we’ve established for storytelling, how do we read the stories we tell today? We touch on Star Wars vs. its sequels and prequels, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 90s Cartoons, Anime, Avatar the Last Airbender, Tarantino, It’s a Wonderful Life, and end with a discussion on how the Little Mermaid is just secular individualism. Read more
Jonathan Pageau Pt.2: Our Changing Cultural Stories (opens the original)
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Today Jonathan and I discuss the way that the culture war is a story war, how deconstruction can’t last forever, and what things he’s seeing in current movie themes that show a return to a more stable story for our culture. Journey to Reality is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid su…<input c
Storytelling Ep.5: Afterparty (opens the original)
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A great follow-up to episode 5 in which we get much more explicitly into the way that at the heart of “diversity” in media ultimately has, at its roots, the Faustian morality of the individual’s triumph over nature by willpower via technology. Read more
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