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''"You experience yourself as a free agent..."''
''You experience yourself as a free agent.''


'''Questions''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1983]].
'''Questions''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1983|1983]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Is there free will? Determinism v/s existentialism. Did you choose your identity? Interview with government spokesman and torture victim, using Hegel to disprove Hegel, the feeling of the earth moving beneath your feet, everything is true speech.
Joe wonders whether free will exists, cites the opinions of
Determinists first, then Existentialists (Jean-Paul Sartre).  Because
we pursue love, we may behave inauthentically to obtain it.
 
6:10: A WBAI panel talks to callers.<ref>sounds like the same stuff in
[[Jewish Blues]].</ref> A guy says there was a glut of computer
programmers created in the '50s and '60s, then discusses computer
crime.  The caller paid for a course but instead of a job has an
$1,800 debt.  A second caller says we've misdiagnosed our problems.
 
9:30: Joe talks about the significance of the unconscious; a
friend with a bum foot had it cured when his analyst attributed it to
guilt over his father's death; then the analyst confessed to the
murder and killed himself.  Later, riding a train, he decides that he
can choose different points of view.
 
12:10: A fellow with a Spanish accent ([[Tim Jerome]]?) talks about the abuses of the
Arbenz (sp?)<ref>Jacobo Árbenz was Guatemala's president 1951-4,
deposed in a coup.  I think they used the name unintentionally.</ref>
regime of Gaboon (sp?).  Others dispute the charges.
 
18:10: Joe says we fall in love with people who have qualities we
lack, which qualities make us unhappy with them eventually.
 
19: Joe says Hegel wrote that our ideas are shaped by the time they
are formed, which makes them invalid.
 
20:10: Joe, a cab driver out in the country, sees a VW destroyed by a
collision with a tree, finds the driver, shocked but uninjured, trying
to peel the registration sticker off, sees this as how we live: our
lives are wreckage; we concentrate on insignificant details.
 
22: A guy tells Joe that what most people believe is untrue, says that
there's no point in arguing.  Then a woman says we're ignoring
something terrifically basic.
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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* Is there free will?  
* Determinism v/s existentialism.  
* Did you choose your identity?  
* Interview with government spokesman and torture victim
* Using Hegel to disprove Hegel
* The feeling of the earth moving beneath your feet  
* Everyone is focusing on insignificant details (an epiphany received after  encountering a crash victim peeling the inspection sticker off his ruined vehicle's windshield)
* Everything is true speech.
</div></div>


== Music ==  
== Music ==  
{{Are You Going With Me? (Pat Metheny Group) }}
{{Are You Going With Me? (Pat Metheny Group)}} [12:27]
== Commentary ==
 
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== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Tim Jerome]], [[Mark Hammer]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[Eric Sears]], [[Irene Wagner]], and Joe Frank."
 
== Footnotes ==


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Latest revision as of 17:24, 31 October 2024

Series
WBAI And NPR Playhouse
Original Broadcast Date
4/22/1983
Cast
Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Eric Sears, Irene Wagner, Joe Frank
Format
25 minutes
Preceded by: Pilot
Followed by: A Tour Of The City (Part 1)
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You experience yourself as a free agent.

Questions is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series WBAI And NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast in 1983.

Synopsis

Joe wonders whether free will exists, cites the opinions of Determinists first, then Existentialists (Jean-Paul Sartre). Because we pursue love, we may behave inauthentically to obtain it.

6:10: A WBAI panel talks to callers.[1] A guy says there was a glut of computer programmers created in the '50s and '60s, then discusses computer crime. The caller paid for a course but instead of a job has an $1,800 debt. A second caller says we've misdiagnosed our problems.

9:30: Joe talks about the significance of the unconscious; a friend with a bum foot had it cured when his analyst attributed it to guilt over his father's death; then the analyst confessed to the murder and killed himself. Later, riding a train, he decides that he can choose different points of view.

12:10: A fellow with a Spanish accent (Tim Jerome?) talks about the abuses of the Arbenz (sp?)[2] regime of Gaboon (sp?). Others dispute the charges.

18:10: Joe says we fall in love with people who have qualities we lack, which qualities make us unhappy with them eventually.

19: Joe says Hegel wrote that our ideas are shaped by the time they are formed, which makes them invalid.

20:10: Joe, a cab driver out in the country, sees a VW destroyed by a collision with a tree, finds the driver, shocked but uninjured, trying to peel the registration sticker off, sees this as how we live: our lives are wreckage; we concentrate on insignificant details.

22: A guy tells Joe that what most people believe is untrue, says that there's no point in arguing. Then a woman says we're ignoring something terrifically basic.

Legacy Synopsis
  • Is there free will?
  • Determinism v/s existentialism.
  • Did you choose your identity?
  • Interview with government spokesman and torture victim
  • Using Hegel to disprove Hegel
  • The feeling of the earth moving beneath your feet
  • Everyone is focusing on insignificant details (an epiphany received after encountering a crash victim peeling the inspection sticker off his ruined vehicle's windshield)
  • Everything is true speech.

Music

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "With Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Eric Sears, Irene Wagner, and Joe Frank."

Footnotes

  1. ↑ sounds like the same stuff in Jewish Blues.
  2. ↑ Jacobo Árbenz was Guatemala's president 1951-4, deposed in a coup. I think they used the name unintentionally.
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