Boldly Conclude …
33 Superman and Justice
It's All About Personal Liberty
Truth, Libertarian Justice, and the American Way
Great Rawls!
Behind the (Lead‐Lined) Veil of Ignorance
Occupy Metropolis
Superman's Greatest Foe?
34 Cartman Shrugged
High Philosophy and Low Comedy
Speaking the Unspeakable
A Plague on Both Your Houses
Defending the Undefendable
The Town of South Park Versus Harbucks
The Great Gnome Mystery Solved
The Wal‐Mart Monster
35 Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic
Where's Lando?
The Building Bricks of Race
Kobe Bryant, Ninjas, and Race
Race in The LEGO Movie
Postscript, July 2020: Everything is Not Awesome
36 When Tech Meets Tradition
Are There Black People in the (Transhumanist) Future?
“You Savages Didn't Deserve it!”
The Future Must Have Roots and Branches
Blackness as a Pathway to the Future
37 Black Mirror and Political Manipulation
Our “MASS Implant”: The Language of Dehumanization
The Consequences of Our “MASS Implant”: The Violence of Dehumanization
The “MASS Implant” Today
Rehumanizing the Dehumanized: How to Turn Off Our “MASS Implant”
The Future of Our “MASS Implant”
38 Black Mirror and #DeathTo
Dangers
Benefits
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
15 Part VIII: Eastern Views 39 The Brick, the Plate, and the Uncarved Block It's an Invitation, Not a Toy “It's Super Serious, Right, Babe?” “Actually, it's a Highly Sophisticated Interlocking Brick System” “No Government, no Babysitters … and There's Also No Consistency” “They’re Expecting Us to Show Up in a Bat‐Spaceship “Everything is Awesome!” 40 LEGO, Impermanence, and Buddhism What is Impermanence? Benefits of an Impermanent Mindset Aggregates of Impermanence The LEGOs of Impermanence 41 Zen and the Art of Imagineering When You Wish Upon a Bodhi Tree Under the Sea or Part of Your World? May the Cash Be with You Hakuna Matata, Bodhisattva
16 Part IX: The Afterlife and Meaning 42 Beyond Godric's Hollow Death and Philosophy The Approaching Battle King's Cross Station Reap a Destiny 43 Why it Wouldn't be Rational to Believe You're in The Good Place (and Why You Wouldn't Want to Be Anyway) Cartesian Skepticism About The Good Place The Good Place as a Good Explanation Scientific Skepticism About The Good Place Cosmic Coachella Conclusion: The Meaning of Life
17 Index
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