S.J. Mathos

S.J. Mathos is an Independent writer, military veteran, and old soul. He looks for the sermon in pop culture, and enjoys articulating the clichés we rarely stop to think about.
What ‘The White Lotus’ Conveys About the Fraudulence of Perception
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What ‘The White Lotus’ Conveys About the Fraudulence of Perception

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 / 27 July 2023

Through its storytelling method of glances, we see The White Lotus‘ critique of our tendency to extrapolate that which we do not understand, and to fill gaps in our knowledge with ideologies, mythologies, learned stereotypes, and meme-logic.