March 2025 Links
Dethroning Disney, Andrew Tate, Spotify's irregular songs, Socrates and more. 8 links.
I’m going to start kicking these off with a metaphor I read that delighted me, in hopes that it will delight you, too.
Favorite metaphor encountered: “I left her laughing. The sound was like a hen having hiccups.” - Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
How a Chinese film became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time. With a budget of $80 million. We’ll see what the future holds, but this doesn’t bode well for a Hollywood that is already desperate for Chinese box office revenue.
Ne Zha 2 has already made it into the Top 10 highest-grossing film of all time. It’s the only non-Hollywood film in that list and surpassed Lion King, Jurrassic Park, and Avengers. It’s expected to pass $2B, standing alongside Star Wars, Titanic, & Avatar.
Christianity comes out ahead in Euthyphro’s Dilemma. A good breakdown of an issue raised in one of Plato’s dialogues.
This however betrays a central misunderstanding about the God of the Bible and his perfections. God does not make holiness, nor is God subservient to holiness, God is holy. The good and God are one and the same.
Why Kendrick Lamar’s Half Time Show was important. I confess that the halftime show was literally the first time I had heard Lamar’s music. If you were in the same boat, this is a good read.
You don’t have to like Rap music, but it is important, just like with most study of the arts, to understand the timing and events that surrounded or motivated that particular author to create that piece. For example, Les Misérables was written during the French Revolution or how Victorian England impacted Charles Dickens. Homer’s Odysseus was after The Trojan War. Or the political atmosphere of 13th Century Florence helped create Dante’s Inferno.