Regarding Culture Wars: 1 is a nice reminder in the midst of bad news everywhere. Of all the problems to be having, America is having some relatively nice problems. Not to suggest that means we should stop moving forward by any means, but it’s nice to remember. I’ve been yammering about 3 for quite awhile. Really I’m inclined to believe a lot of GOP higher-ups … Continue reading Regarding Culture Wars
Another article getting at our need to get over the idea of everyone working in the traditional sense. All hands on deck made sense when there was more work to do than people to do it. We’re at the point where everyone working 40 hours a week is impossible. We’re going towards a point where everyone working even 10 hours a week will be impossible. … Continue reading Get over work
For whatever reason math, science, and pretty much any heavily quantitative study has become the metric on which intelligence is based. Someone who can do calculus mentally must be a genius and someone who struggles with fractions must be dumb. I’m not immune to this oddity–I met one particularly brilliant individual years ago and assumed he must be great at maths. (He’s not bad, but … Continue reading Thinking skill in the STEM fields measures intelligence is bad
I said some things two years ago when law enforcement and homicides and all those other fun things were constantly in the news. The ideas still hold now as much as they did then, and the problems haven’t really gone away; we just got a new topic for the news to talk about. I’ve been involved in some protesting and I also know a lot … Continue reading Stop making the police so easy to hate
This year I saw Christmas decorations before even Halloween and Black Friday setup at Walmart early Thanksgiving with signs saying not to touch until 6 pm. A few friends went out to shop at midnight and found out most places were closed, the whole thing happened on Thanksgiving evening without much notice. We’re already two months into the Christmas selling season and there’s not much … Continue reading The Lengthening yet Dying Consumerist Christmas Season (I find it surprisingly saddening)
Hans Fiene says the move to legalize gay marriage is merely the result of a desire to imitate the Civil Rights Movement. His article has a number of issues, from making false claims to false equivocations, but it can be taken in sequence. He first establishes that the current generation learned about the greatness of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement as a sort … Continue reading Some People Following the Crowd Doesn’t Diminish the Reasons Behind the Movement (A response to Hans Fiene)
In the past year or so Yik Yak has stormed the phones of college students across the country. The app doesn’t ask for any personal information, so it’s entirely anonymous, and which posts you see is determined entirely on your current location. Like many other anonymous online forums that become mainstream, Yik Yak has attracted a negative reception, especially as it targets students. Ryan Mach provides … Continue reading Silencing Hate Doesn’t Make It Go Away (Response to Ryan Chapin Mach’s “Why Your College Campus Should Ban Yik Yak”)
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