Pray for Rain

Jack Willis
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  • CULTURE ET SOCIÉTÉ
  • CHAQUE SEMAINE

Thoughts on culture for people without a team. A drought of sanity. Praying for rain.

Épisodes

  1. -3 J

    Episode 5. Why Everything is Political Now & Mickey17

    Today I discuss why politics has infected every aspect of our lives and why we are worse off for it. Also, why movies like Mickey17 and Conclave sucked when they could have been great.

    28 min

  2. 5 FÉVR.

    Episode 4. Why Biohacking Feels Like the End of History

    Today I explore what's so frustrating about modern health trends. Plus, why Francis Fukuyama may have been right about the end of history and why our extreme comfort has created a crisis of meaning. We’re evolved apes trying to run a digital program on crude meat servers, and the results are getting weird.Chapters00:00 – The 24-Month Health Hype Cycle02:34 – The High Cost of "Proprietary Sawdust"04:22 – Biohacking as Procrastination06:14 – Aging and "Japanese Paper" Skin08:29 – Fukuyama and The End of History09:59 – The Last Man: Stagnation in a Massage Chair11:02 – Plato’s Thymus and the Need for Recognition13:57 – "Victory Has Defeated Us": The Curse of Abundance16:39 – Struggling Against a Just Cause23:43 – Finding Individual Meaning (Without the Metamucil)

    25 min

  3. 2 FÉVR.

    Episode 3. Why There Aren't Any Dentists in Avatar

    In this episode of Pray for Rain, I audit one of the most grating cliches in modern media and look at exactly what James Cameron gets wrong about the Na’vi 0:00 — The IMAX Hallucination 5:28 — James Cameron and the "Noble Savage" Trope 10:39 — Braveheart & Amadeus: Killing the Record 14:24 — Why the Wild West was actually safer than you think 18:25 — The Nuance of Colonialism 31:22 — The 3,000 Statues of Arthur Cotton 37:19 — The Problem with "Presentism" in Film

    38 min

  4. 27 JANV.

    Episode 2. Why Men Are Obsessed With Youtube & The Hidden Secret of the Green Mile

    Today I explore why all my hobbies run through Youtube and why it's so enticing to the male brain. Plus, re-watching the Green Mile for the first time in 15 years wasn't what I remembered.

    29 min

  5. 23 JANV.

    Episode 1. ChatGPT Weddings & Why Modern Architecture Sucks

    Sick of not knowing if someone used ChatGPT? You’re not alone. I ruminate on how to spot the fakes, what we lose with AI, and why modern homes are starting to feel like no place at all.

    21 min
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Thoughts on culture for people without a team. A drought of sanity. Praying for rain.

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    Jack Willis
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