This country will flourish only when we all collectively withdraw from the culture-war bloodsports.
It’s absurd listening to recordings of Jerry Falwell Sr from the 60s ranting and raving like a lunatic about pornography, drugs, leftists, Blacks, gays, feminists, intellectuals, communists, universities, secularists, Satan.
But he sounds like Bill Barr. Jordan Peterson. QAnon.
Sounds like Fox News every single minute since it launched 24 years ago.
This is the most nitwit of the forever wars.
Really, who cares how it started? It’s like the lawsuit in Bleak House or the whole of World War I.
Almost everyone alive now just has always lived with it.
What if it just ended? We all just recognized what a grinding rehash it always is and pulled out of this stupid quagmire?
A kind of...armistice day.
We’d inoculate ourselves against even the shiniest memes — the TV actress on Fox who hates Democrats, Kimye’s Trumpism, Dr Seuss.
It’s up to everyone to resist this stuff, and be conscientious objectors to the culture wars.
In short: We have to stop tearing each other up over this f-cking gibberish.
Hm. Some people see this as both-sidesism. No. The Falwell/Tucker “side” has ZERO to say except actual nonsense. There’s only one side with substance to it & that side must disengage. Ignore the bloodsport & help get kids out of poverty, raise minimum wage, get the vax to India.
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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”?
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