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The Perinatal Zeitgeist in Film: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born … Playing Now, in Theaters Near You!

Posted on January 21, 2013 by sillymickel

Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist: Everything You’ve Managed to Forget About Being Born Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Two: Everything You’ve Forgotten About Birth … Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born But Were Afraid to Ask: Birthing Into the Media and the Perinatal Zeitgeist of Postmodern Culture

Posted on September 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Cultural Rebirth Aborted, Changing of the Guard Denied, The Elders on Life Support, and the Abomination Fills the Land: America Since Its “Pleasantville” Fifties

Posted on July 21, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War Chapter Seven: Cultural Rebirth, Aborted It’s a (Not So) Wonderful Life…for the World War Two Generation Compared to Their Boomer Children War Compelled the Dashing of Dreams for WWII Gen Youth – It’s a Not-So Wonderful … Continue reading →

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Becoming Thingified–Modern Birth Tells the Baby, “Welcome to the world, now screw you!”: Perinatal Media, Part 3

Posted on March 22, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Three: Welcome to the world, now go to hell!” – A Baby Becomes Thingified Through Modern Birth Treated Like a “Piece of Meat” This practice of ungentle mouth clearing—performed by hurried or insensitive, and uninformed, medical personnel, … Continue reading →

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America’s Aborted Changing of the Guard and The King Propped Up Mechanically: Since “Pleasantville”

Posted on November 17, 2011 by sillymickel

The King on Life Support and The Consequences of an Abomination: America Since Its “Pleasantville” With these factors in mind, what have we experienced in the last two decades, as the Sixties Generation finally got its turn? As expected, it … Continue reading →