Decoding Culture (5-6-24)

01:00 Where does culture come from? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/terry-eagleton/where-does-culture-come-from
02:00 Literary critic Terry Eagleton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton
06:00 My favorite songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_xDytEB1Q&list=PLhQp0uq1786ISg586sYF7k8cDug1-avU0
12:00 American Hearts by Air Supply
15:00 Work sucks - what could salvage it?, https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/work-sucks-what-could-salvage-it
28:00 Simon Kuper: Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?, https://www.ft.com/content/4e319ddd-cfbd-447a-b872-3fb66856bb65
32:00 Christians vibrate to the word 'love' while Jews vibrate to the word 'law'
38:00 Almost all of our thoughts and feelings come from society
40:00 Culture vs politics
60:00 Non-Americans Are Revealing The Ways They Can “Spot An American Tourist From A Mile Away”, https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/weird-things-american-tourists-do-gd
1:06:15 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about tipping and Facebook marketplace
1:09:00 Dublin, CA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California
1:13:00 Elliott's encounter with a woman with lobster claws for arms
1:29:00 My Tiktok, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford613/
My analysis: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154961
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-criminal-law-not-apply-to-college-campus-protests/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/walter-kirn/678187/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/pen-america-writers-gaza-israel/678272/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/a-generation-of-distrust
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-02/online-sleuths-rush-to-identify-the-men-who-attacked-ucla-camp