Hindsight

Not only do you get some really nice philosophical content in this episode, but you also get to hear me panic about the ghost living in my house and you get to hear my prepubescent voice from a video dating back 7 years ago… What a wild episode!

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

The world has run out of many things and will continue to run out of things, but if there is one thing that is in abundance and is like a well that will never run dry, it’s stupidity…

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - P. J. O'Rourke

There are good trailers in the world that don’t tell you exactly how the movie is going to go. There are bad trailers in the world that are pretty much like watching the entire movie in a 4 minute YouTube video. And then there are trailers that are driven by people who have no business driving a trailer but they rented a U-Haul to move cross country and they never use their turn signals…

"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." - Roger Ebert

Would you look at that, a story so rich in detail and messiness it has to be broken up into two parts! We’re kicking off this two-parter with a deep dive into the history of China to set up for the second part where we’ll talk about current modern-day China and all of their internal and international Shenanigans.

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." - George Santayana

My first guess is that this is kind of going to be like a female version of the great cinematic classic Superbad, but to my surprise, I was right…

"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about." - Solomon Short

I’ve said in the past that I would probably never become a teacher but thinking about it now…

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning." - Brad Henry

Honestly for this description I could just use the description of the podcast and that would suffice so yeah, go see that…

"Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish." - Daniel Kahneman

Perhaps our purpose in life isn’t to give life purpose, but instead it’s all about the friends we made along the way!

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." - Socrates

Baker Act: A Florida law that enables families and loved ones to provide emergency mental health services and temporary detention for people who are impaired because of their mental illness, and who are unable to determine their needs for treatment.

"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."- Vikram Patel

As you can tell by that length of this episode that I have some pretty strong feelings when it comes to the topics of character tropes so it shouldn’t surprise you when I start ranting all over the place… But hey, I made a new intro for movie talk so that’s cool!

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness." - Yousuf Karsh