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The Thieves of Our Attention
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now this was good, not because I know anything about Mr. Beast other than he's somewhat popular, but it does make some good arguments regarding his rather baleful influence. The opening claim of "Watched 1000 Hours SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO" impressed me, and it articulated a few things I've long realized to be true and recognized in myself, and hopefully should force me to act in a manner a little more in line with my integrity.
Now - while this video takes issue with the inanity of Mr Beast and the final summing up of how many years humanity has spent watching him count (1 inane video - 102 - YEARS!!! - imagine the sum of all his videos taken together). While I agree with the "Turn Away and give it none of your attention" philosophy, whether you watch him or not - he's symptomatic of a very much larger problem - this theft of our attention takes us away from people, humanity, community - and - were we all to do something with the time we waste on this nonsense we'd get - individually - great things done - as a society we'd be building pyramids daily.
Think of how much time we waste upon the internet, Facebook, Reddit - 99.9998 of any time spent there is wasted. The same with Instagram, Tik-Tok, etcetera. And the algorithms are designed to keep us "engaged" - although, in reality, they're keeping us stunned and numb when we should be righteously morally enraged at the antics of these "influencers", "Content Creators", etc.
Don't get me wrong, the internet can still be an interesting place - if you go there with something in mind. Go there looking to fill your head or waste some time and it will too readily oblige with the worst of all possible content.
17th Century Polish Coin Hoard found by Metal Detectorist
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Exactly what it says. A clay jug from the 17th Century filled with copper coinage of the era. Unfortunately Archaeologists had to be called in because metal detecting relics in Poland is illegal.
Which means - a lot of finds go undiscovered or unreported.
Link: https://www.livescience.com/17th-century-century-hoard-brimming-with-1000-coins-discovered-in-poland
The Vindelev Hoard
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A 1 Kg gold hoard containing the oldest know reference to "Odin", unearthed in Vindelev, Western Denmark in 2020. Approximately 1500 Years old.
Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/08/oldest-known-reference-to-norse-god-odin-found-in-danish-treasure-trove
RRR
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Saw this on NetFlix, gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised. Hindi/Bollywood, India under the British Raj and and the British are portrayed much as they like to portray the Nazis, basically the same, and - really, English Colonialism was every bit as savage as French, Belgian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish Colonialism. So they're not far off.
It's about 10 X better written than any American film, with a lot more depth, nuance and complexities to the plot. That's not to say it has a lot, just more. And it's nice to see cultures represent their own history - as opposed to us doing it. Even if it's clearly a ridiculously over-the-top fiction. The dancing was fun, the jumping with the tigers and torches, brilliant, I mean - Hollywood's problem is that they feed us utter rubbish - Marvel Movies, for example - and they try to keep it a bit "Grounded" by slight attention to the laws of gravity and such, this - they don't fucking care. Turn it up to 11...no, no, 12...fuck it, all the way up to 100!!!! Nobodies supposed to believe it, just be amused.
Anyways, I've had a few Bollywood movies on my list and now I'm inspired to try and see a few more...
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