Syria The explosion of conspiracy theories Communal TV & the lost art of watching. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi... - ThreadSky

mrjamesob.bsky.social • 82 days ago

Syria
The explosion of conspiracy theories
Communal TV & the lost art of watching.
https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrnwZY/

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redwatch.bsky.social•80 days ago

Never miss your show James.

elliebeegee.bsky.social•81 days ago

I caught up with yesterday’s program on the way home last night, I was so tired I couldn’t seek this out at the time.
James the caller called Mark could out pass any commentator with how much he taught me about Syria thank you for the platform he was able to share his knowledge and experience

thinkstrange.bsky.social•81 days ago

Listened to this on catch up. As James kept referencing the ‘phenomena’ of the whole family sitting down to watch TV all I could think of was how every member of my family would greet the word with a ‘do-doo do-doo-do’ following a shared watching of the following clip

https://youtu.be/h5Mc55P1i9g?si=uD8XqJZpHa7LHaOn

lordmandelslime3.bsky.social•82 days ago

Jobbies, blueshite account be like

shihabsjoi.bsky.social•82 days ago

benandrewsauthor.bsky.social•81 days ago

Can someone timestamp the conspiracy theories topic please? That is a topic close to home right now!

costaroninswife.bsky.social•81 days ago

Starts at 11am.

tabooze.bsky.social•81 days ago

While I don’t know enough about Syria, I do know a fair bit about Yugoslavia due to growing up there i. 70s and 80s. That country, despite having had a strongman leader, very much had business being together.

tabooze.bsky.social•81 days ago

Most of its population speaks the same language and is only divided by religion and colonial history of its parts.

tabooze.bsky.social•81 days ago

If Ireland united today for 50 years despite it’s religious and colonial history, but had a strongman leader for 35 of those, and a bloody civil war in 2074 split it again on sectarian lines with added ethnic cleansing and civilian deaths, would you say that Ireland had no business being together?

theaccidentalotaku.bsky.social•81 days ago

I really enjoyed today’s show. 🙏

mjkl.bsky.social•81 days ago

Cultural stagnation might be another explanation for all these 'reboots' (and possibly a lack of interest more generally).
Btw James, if you're not already aware of him I think you might be interested in Ted Gioia's substack where he talks about this kind of thing. https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/15-observations-on-the-new-phase?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=20l57n

k1mb0.bsky.social•82 days ago

Nice thing about BlueSky is I know absolutely nothing about any of these conspiracy theories. Ignorance is bliss.

tipsyruth.bsky.social•81 days ago

These days we only gather around the tv to watch sports together.

coalhewersghost.bsky.social•82 days ago

It's not like "bankruptcy in The Great Gatsby", James, because the quote you're referencing is from Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises".

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/102579-how-did-you-go-bankrupt-two-ways-gradually-then-suddenly

mrjamesob.bsky.social•82 days ago

Oh the shame!

costaroninswife.bsky.social•82 days ago

Cracking show this morning. The first hour brought a different light to my understanding of both Syria and it's people.

slamb.bsky.social•82 days ago

Everyone's turned into David icke

itseperkele.bsky.social•81 days ago

James, if you are interested in this flatearth nonsense, check out @creaky.bsky.social and SciManDan from youtube. They explain where the flatearthers went wrong and make fun of them a bit. If you are *really* interested in it, MCToon on youtube has hours long debates with these silly sausages.

joker-now.bsky.social•82 days ago

Literally a day after the fall of Assad. Feels like we have all been played... https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/suez-canal-link-europe-asia-848229

jonnyholland.bsky.social•82 days ago

I heard it here in Crete this morning !!

oneeyedwayne.bsky.social•82 days ago

Me and the wife watched a program last night which suggested Syria isn’t real

mrjamesob.bsky.social•82 days ago

Tri-topical. It’s the Holy Grail!

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