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For Us Doubting Toms: Watch ‘Sexify’ on Netflix
Sexify on Netflix understands government
Poland is the Jesuit of the European Union. Despite being bizarrely and publicly attached to an ancient and somewhat asynchronous creed (think tall spires and bells and babies), the country houses an amazing array of global leaders in science and technology.
I’ve always thought this is why the Polish national leaders are so desperate to maintain a partial, patriarchal judiciary. You can’t sustain that level of educational elitism in the midst of a traditional paradigm without a carefully planned hierarchy of cognitive dissonance.
If this last sentence strikes you as weighty and incomprehensible, think of the Catholic Church and judge accordingly.
Or, turn to Netflix and the Polish series Sexify, where the unholy feminine trinity of id, ego, and superego combine, and (spoilers ahead) they learn that rejection by ‘the Man’ is actually a sign of strength. If he’s not that into you, it’s probably because you are years ahead of him, and he will never catch up, so ditch him and find a private funder.
Seriously, it’s a good show. Watch it. Season two is out now.
Back to Polish politics.
This obsession with three so you can reject one and still succeed bleeds into government, the historical foil to religiosity. In government, as in Catholicism, there is a rule of three: executive, legislative, and judicial.