We Now Know What May Have Caused the #SalemWitchTrials
- A new study purports to have discovered the source of the “#WitchCraze” that led to witch hunts across Europe and America in the 15th through 17th centuries.
- New ideas about #Witches—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society” — came from a #Book called #MalleusMaleficarum
#JohannesGutenberg
#1428Valais_HexenHunts
#MassProducedBook #BestSeller #PopularCulture #ConspiracyTheories #Religion #Folklore #IdeationalDiffusion
#MassMedia #Printing #MassMediaLiteracy #PrintingPress #BeliefSystems #MassProduction #SocietalParanoia #Books
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a62546301/witch-trials-cause
Like any mythology, comic-book superheroes reflect the cultural hopes, fears, values, beliefs, and ideologies of a society. In the current American society, the very rich are more likely to be a Lex Luther threat (Musk & Trump), rather than benevolent patrons of truth, justice, and freedom. Bruce Wayne’s life as the traumatized poor rich boy becomes even less applicable, when school children can face death in their classrooms, and the middle class dream has turned into a nightmare of insecure work and uncertain housing. The isolated refugee from a far away land/planet (illegal alien indeed) struggles to find their place in a less than friendly America. Powerful women are a threat to the American status quo, and the patriarchy does not care for the Sisterhood – insecure men trying to twist laws and turn motherhood into a prison.
#Art #MassMedia #MediaLiteracy #Memes #MediaPrinciples #MassMediaLiteracy
#Absurdist #AmericanPolitics #ComicBook #Comics #ComicBooks #Posters #PosterArt #CoverIllustraion #CoverArt #SocialIssues #Society #Culture #AmericanPolitics
https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/absurdist-tuesday-absolute-testosterone/?wref=tp
Wealthy #plutocrat #landlord who enriches himself on the labour of others criticises workers (during a cost of living crisis & housing affordability crisis) for wanting to save money.
Why is this news? Why hasn't the journalist asked some obvious questions to provide a little context for this bear-defecates-in-woods story?
- how much does #Blackstone gain from leeching off the labour of their myriad tenants?
- how much unpaid overtime and other forms of wage theft is facilitated by working from an office?
- are workers more likely to fail to complete their contractual work while working from home, or is this "they don't work as hard" merely a euphemism for the extraction of unpaid extra work?
- how much has the pandemic further shifted power away from workers and towards plutocrats?
- what do the tenants from whom Blackstone extracts its billions think of working from home?
- to what extent is Blackstone a significant contributor to the very housing/cost of living crises that are making the financial situation of workers ever more precarious?
Remembering the things that I taught to my students.
#LazyHobbies
#HashTagGames #MediaLiteracy #MassMedia #MassMediaLiteracy #Celebrity #Fame
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Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist Dad