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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙆𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙄𝙨𝙠: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙎 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖-𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨

This Sunday, we are going to step into culture in a really shocking way. We’re going to take an incredible ride!

We’re going to go to the movie Barbie, and we’re going to see how Barbie plays — or doesn’t play — in the Field of Value.

We’re going to do it in a way that we can all access it, we’re going to do this blow-away analysis together, because culture has completely missed the understanding — there’s all this ink spilled on Barbie — which actually misses the deep play.

So we’re going to identify, what is the deep play here and why does it wildly matter?

First, the meta-crisis is happening at the same time as the gender crisis. Isn’t that interesting? The meta-crisis that’s happening around the world is happening at the exact same time where we have this massive crisis of what does it mean to be a man, or what is a man, and what is a woman? The complexity and confusion around that issue is enormous. We would call it a gender identity crisis.

Second, there is a crisis of sexuality: we don’t have a sexual story, we don’t have a sexual narrative. We have a crisis of desire.

Third,, there is an actual meta-crisis of existential risk, in which we risk the death of humanity — or, through various forms of what we call TechnoFeudalism — we risk turning reality into a kind of Skinner’s box (Skinner’s box is a box in which rats and pigeons are controlled by the controllers of the box, even though they’re unaware that they are being controlled). These are two kinds of existential risks: the death of humanity, and the death of our humanity.

Notice that there are no coincidences in the Intimate Universe.

The fact that the gender crisis and the crisis of desire are happening at the exact same time as the meta-crisis is significant.

This is the context in which the movie Barbie has entered culture. Barbie is one of the highest grossing movies in the world now. Yet, the reviews on Barbie don’t have the slightest clue what it’s about.

The movie is a very subtle movie that gets it exactly half right and exactly half wrong.

This Sunday, we’re going to read the movie Barbie as a sacred text of culture.

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