Part 2 - The Soul Rebel Generation | Ep12

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In part 2 of The Soul Rebel Generation Mez & Aharon talk about the intellectually provocative cultural critic Armond White in great detail.
Time stamps: (1:05) Detroit & the genius and formative years of Armond White

(8:15) Armond the rebel outsider

(13:48) Armond's & Pauline Kael's uncommon common American Americans and their humanism

(18:54) Armond's grand philosophy: Art isn't about seeing yourself, it's about seeing other people and how they are like you!

(23:14) suspicious liberal foxes lurk on every ghetto corner - again, Armond won't be bought!

(27:12) Armond the outcast black intellectual that never gets invited to the cookout

(30:04) Gilroy & Armond both call out the black careerist who use the gains of the civil rights movement for their own profit gain. Armond calls them race hustlers (the Chris Rock's, Cornel West's and Spike Lee's of the scene).

(35:39) The bad but good American movies that Armond loves and thinks that you should love too

(40:17) The issue with Marvel movies for Armond is they have no finite endings and therefore cannot give people a moral worldview to embrace.

(41:32) Mez pushes back against this idea and reveals why Marvel in fact brings people together in the way Armond suggests good films should do.

Corrections: Aharon refers to Armond White's The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World as The Resistant Years. He pleads mea culpa and tells us he was in the throws of battling the flu when recording this podcast episode. Aharon, do better! Hahaha

Podcast produced by Matt J.
Music provided by TrethWest.