Weird Studies/X-Files

08 Dec 2024 - 08 Dec 2024
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    • Some deserved ragging on Richard Dawkins
      • Leads me to idle thought: the world is divded up into "explainers" like Dawkins and "mysterians" like the hosts. What if neither of these two POVs is correct and there is some synthesis available? Of course this is what X-Files is all about, the dramatic interaction of Scully (science) and Mulder (supernatural).
      • Isn't being an FBI agent inherently rationalistic though? I mean, your job is to explain things, at least to the level of human agency.
    • JFM: The myth-arc episodes are the most nihilist thing ever on television – we are just food for aliens.