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Mike Patton: The Paradigm Shifter
To fans, Mike Patton is god-tier. To the uninitiated, he’s a revelation waiting to happen. The bands he fronted didn’t just make music, they rewrote the rules, destroyed the boundaries, and inspired thousands to do the same.


Ozzy Osbourne: The Paradigm Shifter
Ozzy Osbourne is a paradigm shifter in every sense. He changed music, reinvented TV, and through it all, remained unapologetically himself. He showed us that greatness doesn’t require perfection and that being flawed, funny, and fearless can change the world.


Contemporary Fatherhood in Television
In a media landscape long dominated by bumbling, passive or emotionally distant fathers, both Bluey and Bob’s Burgers stand out for offering more emotionally intelligent portrayals of modern masculinity and fatherhood. Bob Belcher and Bandit Heeler are both loving husbands and involved dads who reject toxic masculinity and support their children’s growth.


Representations of Belief in Mad Max: Fury Road and Hot Fuzz
In both Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Hot Fuzz (2007), belief is not simply an internal idea held by characters - it is a force that shapes identity, controls communities, and drives narrative change.


A Farewell to Movie Quotes
“Witness me!” A battle cry and one of the last cinematic memes I can remember. Sure, movies are re-made and copied and in a way, those are memes too, but I mean a real meme - a line of dialogue that’s quoted and said by thousands of people in their daily lives for years - that line that is instantly recognisable or tickles your memberberries.


Dune: Imperium
Thematically, Dune: Imperium excels in its translation of the Dune universe’s core ideas of political manipulation, scarcity, loyalty, betrayal, and destiny, into mechanical expression.


The Spirituality of Dune
Villeneuve constructs a cinematic universe in which nature is not conquered, but worshipped. The film critiques imperialism, industrialism, and religious manipulation yet never loses its sense of awe. It is science fiction that re-enchants the world, reminding us that even in a deterministic universe, there is mystery, agency, and meaning.


Dune & Determinism vs Free Will
Dune positions free will not as an innate human right, but as a fragile illusion sustained by culture, belief, and ignorance of deeper systems at work.


Paradigm Shifters: David Lynch and the Legacy of Twin Peaks in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Twin Peaks drove its paradigm shift through themes that upended 1980s TV’s shallow narratives, introducing psychological and cultural depth.
© Scott Barnard
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