Episode LXXXIV - The TVA and Loki's True Self
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Jonathan Majors' "Kang who Remains" may be eating the apple, but the institutions we all live under have their limits and try to exceed them. Kang's reasons for creating the TVA got me thinking of the Social Contract Tradition and its supposed "state of nature"-how it relates to and contrasts with the Scriptural narrative of Creation, Fall and Redemption on a Personal-Is-Political scale. For the Pull List I discuss the non-linear storytelling of War of the Bounty Hunters and what it might be setting up. Thanks for listening, and MTFBWY. New Social Media accounts! Twitter       @FCSA99 Instagram  @FCSA1999 Facebook  (go here)
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