On the Subjectivity of Frames and Narratives – Asha Logos
In Pursuit of Clarity, Episode #9:
Just discovered this Podcast series. Introducing with Episode 9:
In Pursuit of Clarity, Episode #9: On the Subjectivity of Frames and Narratives – Asha Logos
Listened to all of these:-) Quite special. AL has apparently got some work close to ready and shall post soon. Follow him on X.
You brought him to my attention with 'Our Subverted History' series...which I loved.
This was very interesting, Julius. If my Third Paradigm website was still up, I'd point you to the radio episode called 'You've Been Framed.' I used the example of an NPR 'debate' that framed the question as "Should Israel allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb?" I don't need to point out to you how many foregone conclusions narrow the question down to that.
I also watched the Asha Logos you posted to me on The War on the Masculine and Feminine: https://ashalogos.com/videos/4. In order to see the frame of any presentation, though, I think you need to first step out of it and pose the question that comes BEFORE it. What does the meta-narrative assume?
Here's how I'd pose that question: "Is the state of dysfunction between men and women--and therefore families--because people are making bad choices or because they don't have good choices to make?"
We're all in agreement about the state of dysfunction, and that it's hitting families, or the lack thereof. So that's a common frame. His video, however, speaks in generalities and shows mostly thin women with long straight blond hair as the ideal feminine. Fat women with short hair are portrayed as the ugly alternative, with dyed hair and tatts. These are individual choices. He speaks aor same-sex couples raising children as child abuse, if I'm remembering correctly.
My answer to that question is that young people don't have a good choice to raise a family. How can you pay a two-income mortgage or rent with one? There's neither job security nor the ability to make an independent living. They still have student debt to repay and have been uprooted from the communities where they had relatives and friends.
What Hitler, Quaddaffi and Putin have in common--along with being demonized by the US--is that they put policies in place to give couples an economic incentive to marry and start a family. They gave grants to buy houses, loans to start businesses, food vouchers, paid time from work.
I also thought it interesting that the video used footage from The Sound of Music for its idyllic male-female relationship. Certainly the epitome of the virginal chaste nun-novice and the dashing Austrian capitalist. For Asha Logos critiquing our subverted history, that seemed an odd choice.
And I know that you and I share the same purpose, Julius, so I say this only to help us all think clearly and be conscious of our frames. Thanks for the food for thought!