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Irami: If you want racial justice, you are going to have to reconceive the White family.
Crowd: How can you SAY THAT!
Meanwhile, White moms acting out of the entitlements of motherhood:
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Private music teachers need to be subsidized, or there needs to be a process by which they can be certified to be subsidized because it's good for US culture, and they shouldn't live in poverty.
Contemporary social sciences really are the worst. They lack the spiritual depth of the humanities and the objective regularity of the hard sciences, while finding a way to steal the valor of both.
There is this illusion that the humanities should either market themselves as financially lucrative (useful) or spiritually rewarding (useless).
I still think that instead of leading with financial arguments, humanities professionals should talk about the concrete, non-financial rewards of having spiritual depth. The education may or may not pay, you'll have more meaningful family and community relations, because you'll be more aware of the virtues and vices of each relation.
I can't tell you why, but I agree with this.
I think it has something to do with the way, as AI comes to reveal itself as fundamentally without subjectivity, and unable to do tasks that require subjectivity, explorations into the relevance of subjectivity for practical relations will become more attractive.
The Black Boomers dropped all of the family, social and political balls, and now they are about to drop dead.
Carrie is evergreen. There will always be remakes because we don't really have the language to address suburban Whites in America.
They see themselves as Anne Green Gables characters, but when the world deals with them, it's Carrie, Sue, Margaret, and Christine. Christine the villain is an especially good example of why this miniseries is solid. In giving her villainy a backstory, they made her understandable without making her unduly sympathetic.
She was raised to be an entitled brat in a conventional way, and when the conditions of her entitlement started slipping away, she became a brat in an unconventional way. Also, the miniseries does an excellent job with Margaret White, insofar as in some ways, she was both right, responsible, and relatively powerless.
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I'm starting to realize that the parents who don't see the problem with the idea of 50/50 custody are the same sorts of parents who don't actually believe in anything.
So there is no real difference between the market raising your kid in one household and the market raising your kid in another household.
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Stephen King literally answered this in the book, and people still ignore it to protect their revenge fantasy.
The novel features entire sworn depositions from the White Commission, including testimonies from first responders and terrified townspeople who watched Carrie methodically blow up gas stations, sever water mains, and lock hydrants while innocent families burned alive in their beds blocks away from the school. She didn’t just execute her high school tormentors; she wiped out hundreds of completely uninvolved working-class people, elderly neighbors, and children who didn’t even know who Carrie White was.
If the story were told from the perspective of an ER nurse suffocating in smoke or a mother whose house collapsed under electrical fires while Carrie marched down the street, she wouldn’t be hailed as a feminist icon or a tragic anti-hero, she’d be universally remembered as a cold-blooded domestic terrorist. Empathy vanishes the second you’re the one buried under the rubble. #carrie
Would people defend #Carrie so passionately if the story were told from the perspective of one of the innocent people she killed?
The family and I gathered around to watch The Music Man tonight, and I was setting it up for the kids and said, "It's kind of like the EdTech industry. They want you to pay for all of the devices and subscriptions, and then they'll get out of town before you find out that none of it works the way it's advertised."
Folks still make their living selling, "The Think Method."
Small businesses are one of the cardinal institutions of freedom in America.
There is a profound way in which you aren't really free unless you have an independent source of income, not tied to a private employer's wages.
This sensibility motivated the Homestead Acts. Lincoln writes, "The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor -- the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all -- gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all. If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune."
It took New Deal labor protections for wage laborers to approximate the freedom of an independent business person, but now that those protections are hollowed out, you can't be surprised that a national culture that is self-conscious about its freedom values small businesses.
In general, the idea that wage labor degrades the mind is as old as Aristotle.
This may be heresy, but having doctors, dentists, and morticians being the backbone of the community isn't necessarily THAT much better than having artists and entertainers serve that function.
Neither are ideal, but the wisdom of dentists may not get us there.
Poor funding didn't lead schools to degrade phonics education or issue all of the kids chromebook/ipads.
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I've been saying this for years.
Brian Steel argues that every judge, prosecutor, and police officer should be forced to spend four days in prison twice a year:
"Before a person becomes an agent or an officer or a prosecutor or a probation officer or a judge, they need to spend 4 days in a prison as a person in custody."
"Have their clothing taken away and put on the prison garb. Eat the prisoners' 'food'... Be freezing cold while they lay on a 'bed' that is cement with a cushion that's as thin as a sheet... And let them do that for 4 days... and they need to do that every 6 months."
"If they don't do that, because it's too hard, then that should speak volumes to them of what they're doing to the community."
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Who is going to tell him that the only reason we know about Hillary Clinton is because she was married to Bill?
If Hillary Clinton had a penis and balls, she'd be a high level corporate counsel.
