#77: Literalism in Art and Other Troubling Trends

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Studio H3 of the Current Affairs World Headquarters is closed for renovations this week, so instead of the usual panel format, we have something different for you. Aisling, Allegra and Lyta discuss Aisling's article "Satanic Panic and the Death of Mythos" and use it as a jumping-off point for a freewheeling conversation about the current cultural landscape, including overly literal readings of art, fandom, moralizing, and YA...just, YA in general. "Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos": https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/satanic-panics-and-the-death-of-mythos Red Letter Media video on Darth Vader lore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzc20Bm8Xo "The Buzzfeed-ification of Mental Health": https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-buzzfeed-ification-of-mental Allegra's favorite tweet: https://twitter.com/ambientGillian/status/1391880931724648451?s=20 Petscop: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZKQv0ZFHpeIUkOtNjtq4KA This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Current Affairs Radio, the Current Affairs podcast that gives you the Current Affairs audio pleasure.
0:09.3	I am here today being Ashling McCray. I just forgot my name for a moment. I forgot to tell you what my name is.
0:17.5	I am Ashling McCray, Podmaster General, and I am here with business manager Allegra Salkox.
0:25.2	Hello, everyone.
0:26.6	And Amusements and Managing Editor, Leida Gold.
0:29.9	Hi.
0:30.9	And we're here today to talk about how you're interpreting media wrong.
0:36.2	Actually, you probably aren't.
0:37.4	You're probably doing it. Just as well as you could be.
0:41.9	And any way you want to interpret media is fine.
0:44.9	But we're going to talk about some troubling trends in media criticism and media interpretation.
0:51.4	Hello, everyone. What do we think?
0:53.5	I think you're probably definitely doing it wrong. You, the audience. So just here to stir the pot.
1:00.8	Yeah, please throw out all your books. You've read them wrong.
1:05.2	Throw out all your movies, your DVDs, your Blu-Rays. Do they have something new after Blu-rays?
1:11.0	I guess it's streaming.
1:12.6	Throw away your streams.
1:14.1	Cross them first and then throw them all.
1:17.1	But not only are you wrong,
1:19.3	most critics are also wrong.
1:21.4	People who are paid to talk about this are also wrong.
1:23.9	So you should throw them out the window
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