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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

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

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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Evolved Parenting Results in Authenticity Rising and Defeat of the Body Snatchers: “The Awakening” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville”

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Six: “Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory To Follow or Not Follow “the Script” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville” “Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory: Thinking for Oneself Gets You “Colorized” Not So “Pleasantville” The film, “Pleasantville,” is … Continue reading

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Through the Looking Glass Into Parallel Universes…But “There’s No Place Like Home”: Perinatal Media, Part 6

Perinatal Media, Part Six: Through the Looking Glass Into Parallel Universes, But “There’s No Place Like Home” Origins of Parallel Universes But this idea of something coming through the walls, membrane walls, is both fascinating and telling in the extreme. … Continue reading

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Authenticity’s Last Stand: Will the Internet Fend Off the Zombie Apocalypse? … The King’s Gotta Die Sometime!

The King’s Gotta Die Sometime! Prospects and Dangers in the Post-WWII-Generation World However much we cannot know the future, and despite the seeds of WWII Generation values left incubating in the minds of Eighties and Fifties Generation members and emerging … Continue reading

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Aborted Changing of the Guard, Abortion of Cultural Rebirth: The King Refuses to Die

Abortion of Cultural Rebirth, Aborted Changing of the Guard – The King Refuses to Die The American Tienanmen Square—Culture War The events in China’s Tiananmen Square more than twenty years ago so affected and still affects some of us here … Continue reading

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Abortion of Cultural Rebirth Always Begins With a Conservative Backlash by The “Religious Wrong”

A Conservative Backlash by The “Religious Wrong”‘ Attempts to Abort the Generational Changing of the Guard in America’s “Pleasantville” “You Can’t Legislate Morals” With the support of the Chamber of Commerce, we know Big Bob has the power to do … Continue reading

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The Prince Is Always Exiled and Older Males the Last to Wake Up in America’s “Pleasantville

The Hundredth Monkey: Good Old Boys Are Always the Last to Learn in America’s “Pleasantville” The Sixties Generation Arrived It is significant that the protagonist of change in the movie “Pleasantville” would be a young male, Bud (David). This is … Continue reading

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To Love Uncertainty: Revolution Is Not a Tea Party…We Need to Stop Bemoaning the “Messiness” that Comes with Freedom

What It Is About Change… Revolution Is Not a Tea Party (But It Can Be a Tweet Party) The “Messy” Scenery of Healing “Love My Uncertainty” One reviewer described the ending of the movie as “not at all easy and … Continue reading

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Pleasantville” and “Yellow Submarine”: The WWII Generation World of “Blue Meanies” and “Nowhere Men” vs. “The Awakening”

“The Awakening” in a WWII Generation World of “Blue Meanies” and “Nowhere Men” … “Yellow Submarine” … “Pleasantville” Blue Meanies The 1998 movie, “Pleasantville,”thematically, is remarkably akin to the 1968-released movie “Yellow Submarine” put out by the Sixties Generation rock … Continue reading

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