The Little Mermaid, You Know?

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i think it's ok to try to increase diversity of cast if it doesn't really affect things one way or the other. Like, i heard an interview with neil gayman, and he said we had a very simple, straightforward rule. If it mattered to the story that this character was a man or white or whatever, then we kept the character like that. But if it didn't matter for the story, if the story would be equally or, you know, just not affected either way, then we often tried to be diverse when we could. You know, yes, that seems fine to me. And there's a particular cool way in which the in the nilgamen world

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.