Some of the vocal students thought that as long as the military was providing support, then it was fine that the film was changed. The lesson was 90 minutes long, but it didn’t go well. I Teach in a small affluent town, and my students are bright. I recently used it to create a lesson in my Econ class, breaking down the funding of Clear Present Danger. My students frequently request Big Short, and I cringe. Really liked your comparison between that and Big Short. I am a High School social studies teacher in the USA, and I show ‘Margin Call’ in my Economics class.
I am an avid listener of your podcast, ClandesTime, I find it gripping and illuminating. I also got an email recently from a much more supportive and intelligent listener who we’ll call Matthew, because that’s his name.
Needless to say, I told them exactly what I think of the barely coded anti-semitism of blaming everything on Jewish bankers, and the childish idiocy of blaming our economic problems on the existence of central banks.īut the point is, they clearly don’t get it. But what’s obvious to one person is obscure to another, and vice versa.Ī couple of recent exchanges provoked me to do this episode now – one was with yet another conspiratard who got in touch for the sole purpose of telling me how wrong I am about everything because I’m talking about Hollywood, which is apparently trivial, and not the federal reserve or the secret commies or whatever. It’s also because I have a bit of a blind spot – to me, it’s so obvious why this matters that I’ve never explicitly addressed that question. On the flipside I don’t do a lot of introductory episodes – most of what I discuss builds on things I’ve written about before, as I learn more and understand more I try to modify my thinking and improve it, and then turn that into new content. I don’t like to waste people’s time telling them things they either already know or can get elsewhere. Primarily, because I assume the people following my work do so because they already see the importance of this area of research that I focus on.
It does not store any personal data.Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embedīefore we get into today’s title question let’s start with another – why am I doing this episode? Or more precisely, why now? Why wait until over 200 episodes in to address this question? The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.
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