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John Mulaney: There's a Horse Loose in a Hospital

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))5/13/2018 4:13:12 am PDT

re: #22 wheat-dogg

I watch these kind of flicks just so I can debunk them for friends (or students) who take them as documentaries, and not complete fantasies.

this is another basic flaw in education, along with failing to teach the scientific method, the historical method or basic civics, namely that we do not explain the difference between literary genres: the difference between a work of science or history, a textbook, a biography, a testament or a work of fiction.

There are people who really take works of historical or even speculative fiction as history.

Not to mention people who take the Old Testament as a science and history textbook.

And as much as i enjoyed The Man in the High Castle (both novel and TV series), it was more a work on the mutable nature of reality than alternate history: Japan never intended to nor was it in any position to occupy the USA except perhaps Hawaii, they just wanted access to oil and other resources.

And World War Z (he novel, not the god-awful film) is not so much a zombie story but a parable about how humanity almost always falls flat on its face when dealing with a crisis: first by ignoring it, then denying, it, then trying to cover it up, all of which make it even worse so that when it really breaks out, we are totally unprepared for it.