got distracted from granting boons momentarily and started reading old Bloom County cartoons
society has become stagnant since the 80s
discourse is closed
here are some comics that were nationally syndicated in the 80s
see how far we have fallen
on Christmas:
race and politic's
corporate wokeness
treatment of donald trump that was marginally funny. almost. almost.
gender wars
i think everyone ends up owned
@nitguptaa won a pulitzer in 87
thoughtful treatment of the aids crisis
if you want a touchpoint for how free you are, go look at media that existed thirty or forty years ago and compare how expressive it is relative to what exists today
how much is permitted now that wasn't then? and, vice versa
in this specific case the exercise is depressing
have a related exercise in mind for this gem which @selentelechia picked up for me for Christmas which was probably $3 used and is one of the best things I got this year
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the kind of journalism where you speculate wildly about others' internal psychology has it seems wholly displaced the journalism where you just ask people why they think things
i guess its easier, and safer, to speculate. and who could disprove your claims, really?
since we're speculating my guess is that one could explain a lot of young men's shift to the right by observing that they were forced into suffocating and politically anti-male spaces run by leftists for their entire childhoods and they probably resent that to some degree
it was very easy for me to type that out but i haven't demonstrated anything and i dont believe its worthy of oh i dont know an entire article in what was once a venerable pillar of american print media
consider the following types of law 1. Constitutional provisions 2. Congressional acts 3. Common Law 4. Administrative law 5. Normative "law" (guidelines)
the US has all of these. arguably more but we'll ignore those.
today it is helpful to understand these separately
these bodies of law, the manner in which they interact, and the process by which they are changed and enforced comprise america's small-c constitution
the trump administration's actions seem to me (caveat emptor) to be comprehensible as an attempt at constitutional resettlement
bad high school civics courses will teach students that congress passes laws, the president carries them out, and that the justice system interprets and enforces them
more or less
this is the theory but really it's an outdated map of our constitution in several ways
the way things are going i will bet that the DoE is going to break the accreditation agencies and force them to de-accredit (discredit?) schools that have dei programs
this would be an indirect way of controlling universities because they'd face the loss of student federal aid
i dont think trump is really anything like hitler but it's helpful to explain why, and there is something comparable about the times in kind if not in quantity
i am *not* knowledgeable abt weimar and expect to often be wrong in this thread
it's titled "pillars of society" which means that this painting is a pictorial delivery of The Aristocrats
his victims represent various social and political factions in weimar
grosz was the sort of guy who volunteered during ww1, became disgusted with the german state, joined the communist party briefly until he realized they were totalitarians, and emigrated to america in 1933 to get away from prussians (and eventually became disgusted with america)
the year is 2025. "Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft" research fellows are inciting the assassination of specific Americans on the timeline under their real names
i'm trying to think of historical analogues to the present madness. pre-revolutionary russia i guess?