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Amalgamated Desires

September 18th, 2023 | 4 min read

By Luke Brake

In the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood, Little John, sitting atop a tent carried by a herd of stampeding animals, asks the question “Who’s driving this flying umbrella?” The answer is difficult to figure out. Every stampeding animal under the tent is “driving”, and yet also none of them are. Their collective panic and fury drives the tent forward and into pie stands, towers, friends, and foes. It’s this question “Who’s driving this flying umbrella?” that we must ask ourselves in this increasingly digital, chaotic age.

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Luke Brake

Luke Brake is an assistant professor of Language and Literature at Sterling College in Sterling, KS. His writing focuses on religious writing, rhetoric, electracy, and virtue; and he blogs at Blog 2.

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