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…
The Web of Human Behavior (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Modern theatre was pioneered in the 1890s. Evolutionary psychology was pioneered in the 1990s. They’re founded on parallel discoveries of the same principles. …
No Time for Nowhere by DEF FX
This is the first song on my favorite album by my favorite band. Their whole musical style was essentially a positive way of putting everything people are capable on into…
Celebration by Kool and the Gang
At first this looks like eight cool guys on a stage having fun playing music. But think about what the world outside the video was like back then, in 1980.…
The Magic of Modern Theatre (text)
ACT I Scene 1 How does real life happen? Most people don’t think about that most of the time. When everything people care about happens they way they expected it…
Maggie’s Last Party by V.I.M.
Here's an interesting way of blending art forms. V.I.M. turned samples of Margret Thatcher's speeches into a song. Then this dance troupe choreographed a dance to it, and 12 dancers…
The First 24 Centuries of Theatre (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Let’s go back to religion and follow another development. The art of theatre in Europe began with religion. Religions are built on stories. An…