I present this as another excellent case study of perspective-taking, multiple perspectives, the long view, incommensurability in unexpected (as well as expected) forms, tides of history and their backward, and also a very enjoyable podcatt

Queer villains, erotic noir, 90s pulp. ‘Basic Instinct’ and the backlash, rewound : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR

See also (content warnings for war, death, trauma, man’s inhumanity to man and all the rest):

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/james-meek/blast-effects

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/27-people-drowned-and-i-laughed-258352/