One thing that finally caught my interest from the Sargon video I posted about the other day [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/07/more-fireworks-aka-cnn-dun-fucked-up.html]. Right at 4:25 you get:> “But, all the nice cutesy ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable. This is a business. How many times in any given movie or show episode, if there's a businessman, he's the bad guy? How often have you heard the line uttered by sai…
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Courtesy of the Didact [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/05/national-punch-millennial-day.html], he finds a millenial who writes: > Sure, some Millennials are guilty of being entitled. But turn on the news, and you’ll see some bigly examples of entitled, narcissistic Baby Boomers. Every generation is diverse. But at 75 million people, Millennials are the biggest, most diverse generation in the nation. We’re also the most educated. We know human-caused climate change is real. We know why th…
…and not a caricature of what normally think a smart person is (sortof like Colbert used to play a caricature of what liberals *thought* conservative commentators believed, when parodying what they actually did would have been both more honest and funnier). Eric Raymond was encouraged to view a clip of the Big Bang Theory, [and wasn’t impressed](http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7451):> Bleagh. This is supposed to be a show about geniuses? It’s not. It’s a show about a dimwit’s idea of what bright peop…
The verge. SJW central. I almost never – less than 1 in 100 times – read the articles that pop up in the feed because, for a so-called tech site, they are of course, SJW converged. Usually, instead, the headlines, and the hysterical (in at least two senses of the word) – first paragraph excerpt are more than enough to both assure me I’m not missing anything, andto give me a good indication of the “thought” trends in the liberal and SJW left of what we have insufficient representation of, etc..…