Through a flawless system of democracy, where every voice was heard, our superdelegate patron class

elected another winner. It used to be on this podcast that whenever we did these episodes,

we would say, you know, the super delegate class, they've been giving us such good movies,

Barry Lyndon. Yeah, if anything, they're too enlightened. Yeah, and the pendulum has swung gravely in the other direction.

This is when populism corrods democracy.

Folks, we watched the 2004 documentary fiction hybrid, and I do mean fiction.

What the bleep do we know?

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

I think if you want to do the reactionary reading of the film, which is more than warranted,

the movie is saying, if you have any trauma, you've caused that trauma.

You've rewired your brain almost voluntarily.

But here's, again, I don't understand, I don't understand, you know, I think the film is very contradictory. And, you know, I will say there were times where Will and I, we were really dedicated to like, all right, let's try to follow the through line here.

What is being said? Like, insofar as this Hocum has internal consistency, what is it?

That's what we were trying

to ascertain. And we just kept coming up short because I feel like the film is saying on the one

hand that all of us are the victims of these kind of internal processes that belong to these

life worlds, you know, that we don't really control, that it actually kind of collectively

constitute us. Like we're just the sum of these different things.

So in a way, there's a kind of like fatalism or a determinism to it where it's like we're merely the sum of our

experiences which are abridged by these, you know, chemical connections, you know, these electrochemical

connections in our brain or whatever. But on the other hand, if the film has any kind of thesis, it's like, you have agency, you can make the world.

You could, and it's like that's, those are completely opposite, like, I don't understand.

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