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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Day the Earth Stands Still

Men have always tried to control female sexuality. The virgin birth thing is probably something under there, like, there's something about women going off and havingwell, she must have been impregnated by god,. Something like that. It almost seems, again, this may be one of those mens or archetypes that doesn't really exist. One of my favorite films is the day the earth stood still in which a kena reds and and ina, plays an alien that comes to earth. He's warning earthlings about global warmingso these thing, these stories often, you know, reflect what we're anxious about it at the time.

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