Continuing from Episode One with a goal to determine the correct questions to ask. This is an open microphone discussion where I encourage the audience to participate and share their perspectives. I will post a live link to join the discussion a few minutes before the show begins and periodically during the show. The first episode was aired here: https://youtu.be/mAEzvCJCKJE For those that come in to comment try to limit comments to approximately 2 minutes in length so that the audience can digest, consider, and react to the comments. Repeating the initial Question. 1. Are we in a Culture War? 2. What is a Culture War. 3. Who is fighting it and by what means. 4. What is at stake, who stands to gain or lose? 5. What are the correct questions to ask to gain a better understanding. In the first episode one caller suggested we are in more of a class war than a culture war with corporations and the wealthy using propaganda to generate cultural divisions and fights for profit. A second caller approached it from a religious perspective asserting that the Culture Wars are an attempt to De-Christianize the West. We examined a wkipedia article an accepted for the moment the general definition - "A culture war is a cultural conflict between social groups and the struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices.[1] It commonly refers to topics on which there is general societal disagreement and polarization in societal values." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F60b3ghZaM

The Fellowship of the Ring: Storytime for Friends Episode 5 Join us for reading from and discussion of the Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien's legendary story from the Lord of the Rings. Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Please follow me at https://odysee.com/$/invite/@EdwinBoyette:6 Join the Storytime Discord Server at https://discord.gg/VHJVPMh4cc #MiddleEarth #LordoftheRings #FellowshipOfTheRing #Gandalf #Frodo #Bilbo #Tolkien #StoryTime #Reading #SamGamgee #SecondBreakfast ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1224ViLf0