No-One In That Photo Could've Thought They'd Be Appearing In Anyone's Diary.

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It's been a big theme of 2025 so far. Running through both the US Awards Season and the Eurovision Song Contest. Where it was probably most succinctly demonstrated by Ukraine. It's so common for nations to perform at Eurovision while engaged in active, shooting wars against each other there's a longstanding social convention; They're allowed to just phone it in.

They were represented by; "Ziferblat" which is German for; "Clockface." As in the Clockface Machine that 11811 and then Freder Fredersen operated in; "Metropolis" (1927). In his performance the lead singer was giving it his best Freder. The title of the song is not a misspelling. In Metropolis Maria is a woman, or bird, who prays a lot. Despite the smiling handshakes in the final frame Freder certainly wasn't able to mitigate the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany.

Two thirds of the band are fraternal twins. Unlike your typical member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces I've still not felt the need to go to the trouble of finding out exactly how many drops of Jewish blood Danil and Valentyn share between them. However; "Leschynski" is the Ukrainian spelling of; "Lynskey" a traditionally Jewish name of, typically, Polish origin. So within the great performance of Eurovision that was certainly the statement. Ukraine's new generation certainly wants a reliable messenger to tell the World their story, this time around.

Since the 2025 Song Contest the US and Israel got together to arrange the killing of Yaron Lischinsky, another accepted, Russian, spelling of; "Lynsky." Prior to that amateurish jump-scare one of the more famous Lynskys was the US actress Melanie Lynsky.

Melanie Lynsky was in the US sitcom; "Two and a Half Men" before, during and after Charlie Sheen's firing for his antisemitic abuse of his coworkers and, generally, behaving like a d'ck. Melanie Lynsky was also in; "Yellowjackets" and; "The Last of Us." Although not the storyline involving the Israeli-style Kibbutz or Commune where Tommy lives in Season 1, Episode 6; "Kin."

Melanie Lynsky also appeared as a Philosophy Professor in; "Young Sheldon." Where she taught Epistemological Scepticism. Using the example first laid out by Chaung Tzu. When he dreamt he was a Butterfly he completely believed it because everything around him confirmed he was a Butterfly. Yet when he awoke he completely believed he was Chuang Tzu because everything around him confirmed he was Chuang Tzu. So how does he know that he's not a Butterfly dreaming that he's Chuang Tzu?

One of the big movies of The Oscars 2025 was; "The Brutalist" (2024). The Brutalist design school very much grew in opposition to the Expressionism as seen in; "Metropolis." They felt that people must experience things in Objective Reality. Things cannot be altered to express the Subjective Emotion. Chaung Tzu and Epistemological Scepticism argue that there is no way to ever know what Objective Reality is, as things are always influenced by the Subject experiencing them.

So those were some really heavy topics being very well explained, within the context of a fun 25 minute TV sitcom. Even if any aspect of Melanie Lynsky's career was only ever the garnish.