Elegant Ramblings
Smart essays designed to make you think more deeply about the world around us
We found 10 episodes of Elegant Ramblings with the tag “arts and culture”.
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Episode 18: Looking forward to 2025
January 20th, 2025 | 9 mins 35 secs
arts and culture, essays
My look at the movies, books, and music coming out over the next year
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Episode 17: Episode 17: A Premature Autopsy of the 2024 presidential election
December 1st, 2024 | 35 mins 29 secs
arts and culture, essays, government, politics
My look at the results of the 2024 presidential election, thoughts and takeaways
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Episode 16: Episode 16: What About Bob?
October 24th, 2024 | 31 mins 46 secs
arts and culture, essays
A look at the workings of rock stars selling their catalogs, with Bob Dylan as an example
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Episode 15: Episode 15: UBI - Dream or Nightmare?
September 27th, 2024 | 26 mins 42 secs
arts and culture, economics, essays
My look at the possibility of a UBI, pros and cons, and possible ramifications if it comes to pass
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Episode 14: Episode 14: Election 2024 - This time it's Global
September 2nd, 2024 | 22 mins 57 secs
arts and culture, election, essays, government, public policy, war
My look at the foreign policies of both Harris and Trump
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Episode 13: Episode 13: 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Future of Conflict
August 18th, 2024 | 14 mins 9 secs
arts and culture, essays, futurism, government, war
My look back on the War on Terror and where international conflict may be headed
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Episode 12: Episode 12: How to Save the Movies
July 27th, 2024 | 30 mins 20 secs
arts and culture, business, essays, movies
My strategy for forming the best movie studio - and if it would ultimately save the movie industry
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Episode 11: Episode 11: Trapped Inside the Walled Garden
July 7th, 2024 | 21 mins 36 secs
arts and culture, essays
A look at the current state of streaming services, subscription services, and how AI may impact both
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Episode 10: Episode 10: Are the youths wrong or am I just getting old?
June 24th, 2024 | 26 mins 14 secs
arts and culture, essays, music
My comparison of the recent Apple Music Top 100 Albums of all time to the Rolling Stone list of 2003, a review of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and a wild stab at extrapolating the critical future of music
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Episode 9: Episode 9: 4 Philosophies - 1 Thought Experiment
June 9th, 2024 | 25 mins 18 secs
arts and culture, essays, ethics, philosophy
A look at how different mainstream moral philosophies handle a single thought experiment