Is There a Misinterpretation of My Philosophy?

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"It's just that who was brandon to deserl yet, no, i don't think to night, you've made me ashamed of every concept i ever hadof superior inferior being," he says. "This is an interesting question actually. It's like, do you put out a philosophy that can be misinterpreted in a way that will lead to some sort of horribly immoral act that you never intended? Right?"

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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