Bad Philosophy

Stephen and Kevin tackle a fan’s Formspring suggestion, the frickin’ Moderny film “The Sunset Limited,” starring two stereotypes having a conversation about suicide. Hooray!

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Alien, Christianity, Cormac McCarthy, epistemology, existentialism, faith, film, God, Michael Fassbender, modernism, nihilism, No Country for Old Men, power, Prometheus, race, realism, religion, Rifftrax, Samuel L. Jackson, Star Wars, statism, stereotypes, suicide, The Sunset Limited, theatre, Tommy Lee Jones, TV Tropes

Kevin and Stephen attempt to construct a solid introduction to post-structuralism and deconstruction… in STEREO.

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C. S. Lewis, class, consequentialism, deconstruction, deontology, Derrida, epistemology, games, gender, government, hope, identity, Imperialism, Judith Butler, Kevin, Lacan, Marxism, mathematics, meaning, metaphysics, Plato, postmodernism, poststructuralism, power, race, Saussure, science, society, soul, spiritualism, Stephen, structuralism, subjectivism, value, Wittgenstein

Synecdoche: New York punches Stephen and Kevin in the brain, sending them into passionate elucidations on this strange and wonderful world

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4chan, blank slate, brain, Charlie Kaufman, death, deconstruction, Derrida, empiricism, epistemology, evolution, evolutionary psychology, gender feminism, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, history, Inception, Kevin, language, life, love, mathematics, meta, mind, Monty Python, noble savage, numbers, perception, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Platonic ideal, post-modernism, post-structuralism, recursion, Robot 9000, Stephen, Stephen Pinker, Synecdoche, Synecdoche New York, taxonomy, theatre, truth, XKCD

To quote a tired but relevant saying, we like to believe that “our courts are the great levelers.” They exist to ensure that criminals be punished, that the innocent are heard, that justice be done for one and all. But every once in a while someone goes through our courts and gets away with murder. […]

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alcohol, Bones, Breaking Bad, caffeine, Carson, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, chloroform, cigarettes, cocaine, coffee, crime, crystal meth, CSI, death sentence, democracy, Dexter, drugs, epistemology, ethics, firearms, guns, Hitler, JonBenet, law, law enforcement, legal positivism, legal validity, marijuana, Matt, meta, methamphetamine, Monty Python, morality, Nancy Grace, natural law, NCIS, OJ Simpson, punishment, separation thesis, Social Thesis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stephen, tobacco, vigilantism