The Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix
Do we hate the United States, or are we trying to reimagine it? Activist movements face that question all the time. Some people get so caught up in feeling angry…
Human Universals (text)
ACT I Scene 1 What does it mean to be human? When people ask that question they usually mean it as philosophy, or religion, or psychology, or even biology. …
Zombie by The Cranberries
How do musicians' decision making environments affect their music? Who are they trying to reach, and what are they trying to get them to feel? Here's another classic activist song.…
Privilege versus Adaptation (text)
ACT I Scene 1 If you’re in high school now, and you plan to go to college, you’re about to see one of the biggest tests of the Web of…
Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
This song is about the dark side of country life. Bobbie calls it unintentional cruelty. The movie based on the song tells that story in a lot more detail. A…
Worldviews and the Principles of Learning (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews. People live their lives by using their abilities and their ideas in their environments and that makes them think…
Wait in the Truck by Hardy
This is a country song about morals and domestic violence. I've seen a lot of reaction videos by people trying to understand it. It's a very well written song and…
The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve been talking about how people use their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives. We think of new ideas in the process. …
A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr.
This song is essentially the national anthem of country music. It's about rural working class White people. The people you see in this video are rural middle class people. They're…
Understanding Worldviews (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve talked a lot in this series about stories of the world. We’ve worked our way up from the biochemistry of survival and reproduction, to the…