
In episode 373 we analyze the Barbie movie through the prism of two key songs, Ken song (I’m just Ken) and Barbie song (Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls). Even as modernity (and then postmodernity) implicitly rejected the reality of value, we — as a culture — still assumed that love is always going to be real. The point of Barbie is that it is not; Barbie is postmodernity on steroids at the very center of culture.
Read on substack or watch on YT.
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We — as a culture — still assume that love is always going to be real.
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