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Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie

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CHAPTER

The Lost Cause

It's just part of very much in the culture of the 1920s. There's no mystery as to why Buster Keaton would have been fascinated by this stuff because like a lot of Americans were and it would continue to go on to shape so much of our visual mythology, right? Like the entire genre of the Western, not only not only that but then all the inversions and subversions of the Western are commenting on it as well. It's Firefly has so much that because there's that character called Jubal Early, like literally it like starts borrowing names from the time that's sort of interesting. I mean, I just think it would be cool to have your own steam engine.

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