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Netflix Left Me Unpersuaded

Wry and dry, with plenty of direct addresses to the camera, the movie falls short.

by Jon Gorter | Jul 28, 2022 | 2 comments

I smell the sweet river dew and hear the rush of water over rock, and I’m launched back in time to my hunter-gatherer roots.

I don’t know this new brain of mine or what I can do with it. I didn’t know my Lexapro brain or my Zoloft brain, either.

It’s the last time they ever come to the library.

We are notoriously poor followers of instructions. Even simple ones. Even conspicuously beneficial ones.

We live in a world so flooded by “entertainments” that the “novels” are drowning.

I’m not really sure I need a reason.

Change is difficult, even if it’s for the better.

We never see anything but the familiar.

There’s no better way to get to know people, to disarm prejudices, and to remove the barrier of “the other” than to learn a language.