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Sid Davis's avatar

Just getting caught up on my emails after a busy season. Wow. This might be my favorite piece that you have written thus far!

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Aw thanks man. It was one of my favorite to write too.

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Andrew's avatar

Ross, I literally just commented on your other article about my hourly existential crisis and how I "wish" things would just... go straight for once!... And now I stumble across this.

May God help me...

Please pray for me, bro. 🙏🏻

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Andrew, very cool you stumbled across my stuff in this moment of need. I hope it helped a little. I am praying for you now. Reach out if you want to chat more.

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Eron J Butler's avatar

This was an incredible read. Have not seen this one yet.

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Thanks, Eron. That means a lot coming from someone who writes about movies!

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Brandon Wilborn's avatar

Beautifully written. You've given form to the tingling thought that's been haunting my brain about the spiritual nature of our devices. I was thinking of them as Tolkien's palantir, but genie may work even better.

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Would love to hear more! I just subscribed to your Substack. Love the theme of fatherhood. You might like this post of mine from last week if you haven’t seen it yet: https://www.patientkingdom.com/p/redeeming-our-fathers-and-mothers. Look forward to more dialogue.

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Brandon Wilborn's avatar

I was just opening that, digging deeper into your publication.

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Thanks Brandon. Yeah, I’ve been thinking on the spiritual nature of our devices for a while too! I like the image of the palantir quite a lot actually. I’ll have to think on that more. Thanks for reading and commenting.

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Brandon Wilborn's avatar

You may have just changed my publishing schedule. Not sure I can compete with your prose or depth. 🙂

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Marjorie Anne Foster's avatar

Congrats on your publication 👏👏👏

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Thank you, Ma!

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Keith Klundt's avatar

Great insights, Ross. Thank you. I'm sure my kids will take my grandkids to see Wish. To be honest, I hadn't heard about it. Like you, I have fond memories of Disney movies from my youth in the 60s and 70s, and even a lot of their films when my kids were young in the 90s. But I gave up on Disney when they went woke. Even prior to "woke" I thought their films were disappointing when they conveyed politically correct cultural messages as opposed to timeless truths. They're superficial and saccharine.

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Ross Byrd's avatar

Thank you for reading and commenting, Keith! This one actually came out about a year ago, so now it’s on streaming. I agree there hasn’t been much good coming out of Disney in a while, but I’m holding out some small hope. Haha

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