Stupid Anthropology has birthed from the ashes of The Right Can’t Read. We have leapt from the desiccated skull like a weird zombie Athena to sometimes ask stupid questions, sometimes our stupid ideas, sometimes our stupid screaming into the void. Join Aaron, Robert, and Jonny as we explore whatever diseased questions pop into our collapsing brains. Questions such as: What’s the deal with selling out? Who are the worst people that came on Oprah’s show? What’s the deal with airline food?
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Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
The gang talks about 1984 author George Orwell, wonder why our culture is so susceptible to short stories, and discuss why James Bond should be thrown onto the trash pile of history.
Digressions include:
Dune is not open source
One Clever Trick to Avoiding the Mile Run
Fireside Chats about USB
Fireside Chats about Bach Cantatas
Music by Daniel Griggs.
Reading List
John Molyneux Animal Farm revisited: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/molyneux/1989/xx/orwell.html -
Gordon Beadle George Orwell and the American Conservatives: https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=suscholar
Louis Menand - "Honest, Decent, Wrong:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/honest-decent-wrong
Ron Charles - "Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian" https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/orwell-1984-conservatives/2021/01/11/e80ce30e-5446-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
https://libcom.org/article/orwell-quotes-right-wingers-never-mention
Rachel Klein Please Stop Comparing Things to “1984:" https://electricliterature.com/please-stop-comparing-things-to-1984/
Non reading list
https://www.foxnews.com/media/charlie-kirk-orwells-1984-is-the-instruction-manual-for-the-left-theyre-criminalizing-speech
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Light show notes this go-round. In Rachel’s first episode on the show, we discuss our favorite conspiracy theories and how we first came to realize that just maybe conspiracy theories aren’t the best form of entertainment. (X-Files is still kosher, though.) Digressions include layered Star Trek explanations, cab drivers, and cocaine.
Music by Daniel Griggs.
Reading list
https://www.conspiracychart.com/ - Created by Abbie Richards
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Aaron barely stops himself from turning the podcast into a metal fancast. Listen as he talks at Robert about how great metal is. Also about how horrible Burzum is, the infestation of black metal by Nazis, and how this all ties back to Q. Because everything does. We live in a bleak world. At least Rob Halford is still alive! Thanks, Rob Halford of Judas Priest.Digressions include:
Aggro art and the French Revolution
MFA literature
NPR crushes Aaron's soul
D&D 5e enrages the far right
Intro and break music by Daniel Griggs.
Reading list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhem_(band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes
Autism Against Fascism - Varg Vikernes https://autismagainstfascism.wordpress.com/varg-vikernes/
Mythic Fantasy Roleplaying Game - a crappy game you shouldn’t play https://myfarog.org/
Burzum’s Varg Vikernes Found Guilty of Inciting Race Hatred https://www.spin.com/2014/07/varg-vikernes-guilty-inciting-racial-hatred/
“He was Lemmy and He Played Rock N Roll” https://www.loudersound.com/features/he-was-lemmy-and-he-played-rock-n-roll
“Apoliteic Music,” Anton Shekhovstov http://www.shekhovtsov.org/articles/Anton_Shekhovtsov-Apoliteic_Music.html
“White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It's Time to Reclaim the Real History” - Time https://time.com/5569399/viking-history-white-nationalists/
Does Metal Have A Problem With Race? | Louder: https://www.loudersound.com/features/does-metal-have-a-problem-with-race
History of Heavy Metal: The Difference Between Metal and Heavy Metal: https://www.prestoncram.com/post/history-of-heavy-metal-the-difference-between-metal-and-heavy-metal
Heavy Metal – Subcultures and Sociology: https://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultures-and-scenes/heavy-metal/
True Metal People Wanna Blog, Not Pose: Satan Rides the Blog: https://blogtrocuted.blogspot.com/2008/05/satan-rides-blog.html
True Norwegian Black Metal | VICE - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32iX5lbVDto
Sodom and Shape of Despair sat at table with nazis : rabm: https://www.reddit.com/r/rabm/comments/pge3cs/sodom_and_shape_of_despair_sat_at_table_with_nazis/
Varg Vikernes - Paganism: Part I - The Ancient Religion:- you know you don't need a link to this; we'll spare you the pain.
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Fight Club
You snowflakes ready to talk about FIght Club? We sure weren’t. The gang discusses how insane the plot of the movie is, how much David Fincher and Chuck Palhunik suck, and how the far right has terrible taste in movies. Also, that IMDB is a hellsite.
Reading list
“The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club”https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-men-who-still-love-fight-club
“How Chuck Palahniuk Became the Darling of the Alt-Right and Antifa”https://gen.medium.com/how-chuck-palahniuk-became-the-darling-of-the-alt-right-and-antifa-6c2fe8a2d616
“MENACE II SOCIETY” by Damon Wise (One of the only people to ever push the makers of Fight Club on its fascism)https://ah-bp.tripod.com/emp-dec99.html
“Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on his book becoming a bible for the incel movement”https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/20/chuck-palahniuk-interview-adjustment-day-black-ethno-state-gay-parenting-incel-movement
Even Fincher doesn’t like Fight Clubhttps://variety.com/2014/film/news/fight-club-panel-comic-con-1201269843/
Intro and break music by Daniel Griggs.
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
The gang talks about a long haired, bearded, religious fanatic from the middle east. Tangents include Leo Tolstoy (a long haired, bearded, religious fanatic from farther east), intro to philosophy topics, and the joys of being attacked with aerosol sprays.
Reading list
“Who people believe rules in heaven influences their beliefs about who rules on Earth”https://news.stanford.edu/2020/01/31/consequences-perceiving-god-white-man/
“The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies”https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-22418-001
Read the Bible, it’s not bad. Skip anything written by Paul and anywhere where people start talking about rules from God. Those parts drag.https://www.biblestudytools.com/niv/
Brief History of Palestinehttps://www.worldhistory.org/palestine/
Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine.Only interesting if you are a huge ancient history nerd. But if you love reading about boring old shit (fair warning this is a slightly colonial perspective) it is an interesting read.https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199216437.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199216437
A decent resource for learning the basics of early Christian history:https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/
Also, if you’re looking for more books on Christanity that make Pat Robertson roll in his grave, read these:https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/271652.God_of_the_Oppressedhttps://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theology_of_Liberation.html?id=0cY80yUpU9MC
Thesus’ ship explained in more depth:
Intro and break music by Daniel Griggs.
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