The evolution of individual American intellects — like the brilliant one @espiers gives here—is almost the only thing I want to read.
Did you split with your parents on culture or politics (like Elizabeth)? Are you afraid of your kids splitting with you (like Mad Dad)?
My question for the expanding group of antiwoke parents: What does your perfect private school teach? If you pull your kid out of Brearley what’s your best antiwoke option? And what does the curriculum have in place of CRT? Locke/Virgil/scripture/home economics/“leadership”?
How committed are you to your class status? If you’re anti-elitist now wd you try homeschooling? Religious curriculum? Trade school? Or if like Mad Dad you like lectures & deplore discussion as too woke would you find a place w/tutors, dons & Oxbridge methods (& no seminars)?
If you publically pull your daughter out of Brearley on ideological grounds, might this disruption affect her education (potentially as much as critical race theory) and/or your authority with her as a father and potential home-educator?
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With 30% of adults fully vaccinated, 50% with one shot, what’s left are <18s and the vaccine-hesitant.
Scare stories abt the superstitious & the GOP refusing the vax miss the fact that there are various types of hesitancy & not all are absolute.
Most public health campaigns have to persuade people to take action. Get out the vax. Peoples’ reasons for not getting the vax are rarely ideological or religious. Many more fear needles; lack tech skills; are defeated by red tape; find it inconvenient; overestimate side effects.
Vaccine hesitancy is the new public-health issue.
If you’re persuasive, have a car, or are good at finding appointments, you can encourage someone who’s hesitant and make sure they get to their appointment.
So all they can do is try to shrink the market & sideline *potential* consumers of the competition
It doesn’t matter if these biz folks are sincere or not; ultimately sidelining voters OR consumers is not just immoral it’s counter-adaptive
It doesn’t matter if these particular CEOs are sincere.
Markets have their own logic.
The 57% (!) who approve of Biden must appreciate that we chose him, & didn’t just certify him under orders fr/the Kremlin, the Q Shaman, or the armed thugs who threatened to hang Pence
The only fix for anything you’re stuck on in public life is to learn more languages
The #StopAsianHate curriculum could drop the unscientific sensitivity stuff and have native speakers teach a semester of conversational Korean and Chinese, including slang, and advance the cause exponentially.
It’s not punitive. It’s not politically torqued. It’s just education, deference to expertise. And no matter where you go, even if you speak one of these languages already, it’s useful & a workout for the brain.