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…
Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio
This is the theme song to Dangerous Minds, a movie about a new high school English teacher who's given a class of inner city kids. The song spells out, and…
The Empathy Formula (text)
ACT I Scene 1 The Web of Human Behavior uses 20 points of reference to outline a framework for people making decisions. We can work through it for…
Surfers of the Mind by DEF FX
This is the second song on Light Speed Collision, my favorite album by my favorite band. They're from the only country in the world that's also a continent, which means…