CoddCast

This is a work in progress- but I had a uniquely different image of the crucifixion from the perspective of modern-day cancel culture. South Park did a great job illustrating the seemingly psychotic need for destruction lead by mobs of individuals towards a celebrity. In their take, it was a version of the alleged pagan human sacrifice for crop yield, but the architype of the bloodthirsty mob was expertly illustrated.  Raising someone up to idol status and then tearing them down seems to be a universal experience, not unique to our time. Cancel culture is just the modern version of it. The intensity and tactics may be new insofar as the mobs are digital, and the suffering is social reputation and potentially financial- but the seemingly demonic possession and crazed desire to inflict pain appears to not be new. This got me thinking of the crucifixion and a potential new take on it. What if the scape goats of the romans & jews being blamed for the events of that day aren't the f...

Depending on the generation and period in time, if you were speaking of an entertainer or show you might point out how they or it was "canceled." Long before the age of the internet and social media, this would simply mean there would be no more episodes of that show. Now, well into the age of social media, it essentially attempts the same thing. On it's functional level, someone or some group of individuals agreed for whatever reason, an aspect of media is to be prevented from continuing. A show's ratings are low and the investment in continuing more episodes no longer seems economically viable. An entertainer has gone against the grain of the zeitgeist- a similar fate is directed at the platform they utilize. In a so-called 'free market' and meritocratic system, this phenomina would seemingly occur on it's own as a function of eyeballs and demand. It would stand to reason the surviving media would appear to be of higher value either as entertainment or i...