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DO 85 - Lafayette Lee w/ Ashley Colby

Doomer Optimism

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A Gear a for I Am 1776

I think there is an archetype that is increasingly around young men who are interested in following some sort of heroic arc. And this film is, is really interesting because it, it plays with that a lot. So Aguirre is trying to use a Spanish conquistory going into on the Amazon to, to find some gold or find riches and so forth. There's like something really appealing about this desire to, you said Aguirre would steal fire from the gods. You can be fundamentally a tragic figure for seeking something beyond what you should be seeking as a human.

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