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“I understand the desire to get more political during these times, but art has social value without being overtly political and radiolab was more successful at expanding minds when it was still a science podcast. It used to pursue explored untold stories without knowing how it would unfold. Now, it’s gotten off track and forgotten the scientific method. I urge the producers to not forget Radiolab’s foundation.
What was the square dancing episode about? Beyond not being related science at all, it was simply an uninteresting story. Was it trying to do something it took Ken burns 16 hours to do? It took an odd stance against the dance from the beginning... America was a British colony, it’s going to have some British cultural influences? Just as Canada has French cultural influences and Mexico has Spanish influences. I’m not arguing we shouldn’t shine a light on forgotten/erased histories, but this story wasn’t about that... it was about picking apart the square dance because at one time people wanted it to be the national folk dance? I would also like to add something... Though the national language is English, that doesn’t mean it’s excluding everyone who came here speaking another language (and most people did and do: Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Arabic). Its about having a language that unites the country. To me that’s a beautiful and hopeful thing about the US. Shouldn’t stories/art be about empathy; identifying with people who don’t look like us or share our experiences so we can learn to see the similarities more than differences? Instead there is a trend towards pretending we can only enjoy/learn/etc from stories of people who share our identity. That seems dangerous to me.”
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