Decoding Culture (5-6-24)

01:00 Where does culture come from? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/terry-eagleton/where-does-culture-come-from
02:00 Literary critic Terry Eagleton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton
06:00 My favorite songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_xDytEB1Q&list=PLhQp0uq1786ISg586sYF7k8cDug1-avU0
12:00 American Hearts by Air Supply
15:00 Work sucks – what could salvage it?, https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/work-sucks-what-could-salvage-it
28:00 Simon Kuper: Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?, https://www.ft.com/content/4e319ddd-cfbd-447a-b872-3fb66856bb65
32:00 Christians vibrate to the word ‘love’ while Jews vibrate to the word ‘law’
38:00 Almost all of our thoughts and feelings come from society
40:00 Culture vs politics
60:00 Non-Americans Are Revealing The Ways They Can “Spot An American Tourist From A Mile Away”, https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/weird-things-american-tourists-do-gd
1:06:15 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about tipping and Facebook marketplace
1:09:00 Dublin, CA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California
1:13:00 Elliott’s encounter with a woman with lobster claws for arms
1:29:00 My Tiktok, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford613/