That is true. I was stunned to discover the number of C19 like viral pandemic movies made well before Covid that could best be described as “disturbingly prescient.” What was it about DC’s thread that shocked you? Why do those things seem contrary to what you heard in his podcast?
That is true. I was stunned to discover the number of C19 like viral pandemic movies made well before Covid that could best be described as “disturbingly prescient.” What was it about DC’s thread that shocked you? Why do those things seem contrary to what you heard in his podcast?
The "shocking" part is probably limited to me. It wasn't what he wrote in the thread (the one that was read on the Tucker show on Fox), it was that he had written it. I was dead certain I had Cooper pegged politically based on a 2-hour exposition leading into one of his podcasts (which I found entertaining and illuminating). Then I read the thread and realized that I was wrong and Cooper's thinking doesn't fit in the normal boxes. That's why I signed up for the Substack.
My point here is that when we say things like "keep politics or cultural issues separate from history or current events podcasts", our own perspectives on those issues color whether we think they've already been included or not. It's already happened. The wall Jason would like (which I totally get and understand the desire for) has already been breached. People with political/cultural perspectives that align with those previous breaches just take it all as fact and moral certitude and don't even notice.
I didn’t mean to imply that he did; it was an easy example of a cultural narrative that a large number of people had been focused on for a lengthy period that I was oblivious to until Covid happened. It may seem like Covid came out of nowhere, but if you rifle through the old video bin at Walmart, you’ll see no shortage of pandemic anticipation going back the last 20 years - you may not have noticed it if you were focused on other things. The idea that a “culture war” is some recent emergent threat exists similarly.
That is true. I was stunned to discover the number of C19 like viral pandemic movies made well before Covid that could best be described as “disturbingly prescient.” What was it about DC’s thread that shocked you? Why do those things seem contrary to what you heard in his podcast?
The "shocking" part is probably limited to me. It wasn't what he wrote in the thread (the one that was read on the Tucker show on Fox), it was that he had written it. I was dead certain I had Cooper pegged politically based on a 2-hour exposition leading into one of his podcasts (which I found entertaining and illuminating). Then I read the thread and realized that I was wrong and Cooper's thinking doesn't fit in the normal boxes. That's why I signed up for the Substack.
My point here is that when we say things like "keep politics or cultural issues separate from history or current events podcasts", our own perspectives on those issues color whether we think they've already been included or not. It's already happened. The wall Jason would like (which I totally get and understand the desire for) has already been breached. People with political/cultural perspectives that align with those previous breaches just take it all as fact and moral certitude and don't even notice.
I don’t remember him writing anything about COVID in that thread.
I didn’t mean to imply that he did; it was an easy example of a cultural narrative that a large number of people had been focused on for a lengthy period that I was oblivious to until Covid happened. It may seem like Covid came out of nowhere, but if you rifle through the old video bin at Walmart, you’ll see no shortage of pandemic anticipation going back the last 20 years - you may not have noticed it if you were focused on other things. The idea that a “culture war” is some recent emergent threat exists similarly.