• pdxfed@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins

    Daft Punk’s 1997 “Homework” album

    “The Atomic Cafe” 1982 documentary film

    • tungah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The Selfish Gene changed the way I see life itself. That and The Blind Watchmaker. I also love Unweaving the Rainbow.

  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    9 months ago

    It’s a bit early to say if it’s life changing, but Hi Ren made me reassess my thought patterns and negative self talk in ways therapy never could, which is pretty damn powerful for a musical performance.

      • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        9 months ago

        No health care professional ever told me that depression can be something that’s just a part of who I am, and that maybe there is no getting rid of it. Rens message in the video feels so genuine and real that instead of passing it over as just another piece of pop culture, I stopped to really listen and think about what he’s saying about managing your darker tendencies and learning to live with them. The song has maybe helped me accept myself a bit better, but as I said, it’s still a bit too early to call if it’s an actually permanent and useful effect.

  • GreyShuck@feddit.uk
    5·
    9 months ago

    There have been several. I’ll pick Eric Berne’s book Games People Play.

    I immediately recognised a few that I had played and, having been ‘called out’ on them by the book, it did lead me to stop and behave more constructively.

  • Juno@beehaw.org
    5·
    9 months ago

    https://youtu.be/xUiuVjX2ubQ?feature=shared

    Transplant tourism in China 🇨🇳

    There’s only one reason to make a device to give people an invisible lobotomy with that contraption. Transplant tourism is a real thing, if you need a kidney, they’ll find some poor Chinese citizen who’s broken some menial law or just pull some poor Uyghur, labotomize them, poof there’s your kidney match in short order.

    Here’s a video of what these people are doing https://youtu.be/xUiuVjX2ubQ?feature=shared

    It changed my life because after seeing this, for all practical purposes, I try my very best to avoid things from China because I don’t want one penny of my money going to support this barbaric inhumanity.

    If I see “made in China” I will try my best to find an alternative. For example, I returned to razor mice because they were made in China and got one of the same model instead that was made in Taiwan. It was sort of a luck of the draw, I had to buy two of the same model before I got one from the country that I wanted it from and I returned the one that was made in China. It was about an extra hours worth of annoyance, but it’s important to me to keep doing things like that, because of this video. Fuck the Chinese Communist Party and their treating other human beings like animals.

  • Vode An@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    9 months ago

    To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Blue’s Clues. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Blue’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Blue’s Clues truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Blue’s existential catchphrase “a clue a clue,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Traci Paige Johnson’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

    And yes, by the way, i DO have a Blue’s Clues tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Unironically Deus Ex, it’s full of cookie-cutter crazy conspiracy theories and references, but it introduced me to the literary genre of Cyberpunk and it’s surrounding culture back in the day. If it wasn’t for it, I probably wouldn’t be so critical of modern consumerism and corporate culture. It helps that a lot of the game’s social commentary remains very topical twenty years later, they simply don’t make games like this anymore.

  • Chahk@beehaw.org
    3·
    9 months ago

    I read Asimov’s Foundation series of books when I was 14 or so, and it made me a lifelong science fiction fan.