i feel like i come across cringe just a lot. Ion't know, like more than usual. Resen oot. Getting to a certain age, i think you're always in danger of it. You are on a field, like, a mine field of potential. Oh, yet, i'll never forget when i was teing for a social psychology class,. And the professor was just supernice and sincere. She had the same slides that she had been using, clearly, for like ten years. Nothing like thrown out. It's almost cringe.
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is just a computer generated model created by an advanced civilization that has reached “technological maturity.” What does the growing popularity of simulation theories reveal about contemporary life? Are any of the arguments for simulation theory compelling or are they just post-hoc ways of justifying what you already believe on faith? If we are living in a simulation, does that mean we can go around killing people? Would it change anything about how we should live? Rodney Ascher’s (Room 237, The Nightmare) excellent documentary "A Glitch in the Matrix" gets the discussion going.
Plus the return of the VBW does conceptual analysis segment - a careful, rigorous, systematic inquiry into the concept “cringe.”*
*Note: if you think the opening segment is itself cringe, that’s because we’re doing seventh dimensional Zoomer meta shit and you just didn’t get it.
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