I'll see your PBR and raise you a Little Brown Jug.
My parents who were (near) teatotallers for most of their lives
would get Rocky Mountain High (just woodsmoke and cold mountain
air, none of John Denver's roll yer own version) and sing this and
other classic songs they learned from their moonshining relatives
in the "hills and hollers" of Kentucky growing up. They were
pretty sober people (alcohol and demeanor) so sitting around the
campfire listening to them belt out these old songs was kind of
creepy. Maybe they had a little brown jug hidden from us
somewhere?
One of my mother's Grandfathers and his brothers immigrated to KY
from Germany by way of Corning NY to help set up glass bottle
factories to support the transition from "moonshine" to the
Bourbon industry sometime around the turn of the century.
And here's the intertextual reference in "Redneck, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer". I see it as a romanticization of alcoholism.
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 7:53 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:
I like his video essays, but finally unsubbed his youtube channel because all he does is talk to the camera [⛧].
Here is more info on him (at least I think it's him):
https://justinking.org/about/
http://www.digitaljournal.com/internet/profile-of-a-digital-journalist-activism-fuels-justin-king/article/398161
[⛧] I prefer content with some eye candy. This one is fantastic:
What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
https://youtu.be/T4oYvSH6jJ8
It's difficult to criticize anyone who puts effort into their videos. But compare that one to this one:
Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime
https://youtu.be/9P6rdqiybaw
PBS Spacetime really does a fantastic job. Politics is more difficult, of course. As someone commented before, ContraPoints' videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/ContraPoints/featured) are sometimes so visually startling it can get in the way of the message. And Philosophy Tube (https://www.youtube.com/user/thephilosophytube) is similar. We're in Hell (https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackGoat666/featured) and Three Arrows (https://www.youtube.com/c/ThreeArrows/featured) strike a nice balance.
On 9/7/20 3:34 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> It was the guy who goes by Beau of the Fifth Column who recited that little thing about the West Virginia Miner Revolt as the origin of the term as a meme. Then that museum also claimed it.
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