Between the Buried and Me, a progressive metal band that is considered legendary, is philosophically political in so much as that most of their albums are about the inevitable decline of humanity and the destruction of everything due to capitalism, greed, regressive ideologies etc. If you’ve never listened to them you should start with the Great Misdirect. Spotify has a live version I think and it is phenomenal.
I couldn’t have said it better myself, as a fellow dumb American.
There is a primate that washes their fruit off and it is a learned behavior. They have taught all the other in the species to do the same thing.
Very well said. Is it even possible to quantify intelligence? I mean, you can obviously measures brain size, which they did, and that was lacking, then they measured amount of gray matter, which matters a lot more, conclusively, but there is also the fact that even losing pieces of the brain cannot stop a person from being fully functioning due to neuroplasticity, and then you have concepts like IQ tests which are verifiable steeped in white exceptionalism aka racist as hell.
It seems like the issue is more nuanced than all that.
Not to mention grades are about doing the work and having the discipline and organizational skills. There are plenty of people who are very intelligent, but lack both of those. US testing metrics (is that the right word?) are heavily flawed. This isn’t even bringing up the racist aspect of most institutions, including educational being headed up and formulated by white people.
That’s a complicated question with an even more complicated answer. The two words I will use are geopolitical advantage.
May we stop living in interesting times…
Would get this in a heartbeat if it had couch co-op. What a shame. My wife would love to play it with me and we only have one Switch and also wouldn’t buy the game twice anyway.
Well. I never really gathered much direct information on what type of person Kissinger was, but considering the characters of both Anthony Bourdain and Sanders, I think I’ll put him in the burn in hell camp.
After reading the article I not only signed up for Teen Vogue’s political newsletter, I signed up for the United Autoworkers Union newsletter too and I’m not even part of a Union!
On the other side of that coin, it is much easier for someone with a high degree of intelligence and self awareness, to perform the necessary mental gymnastics to justify bullshit beliefs…
Much easier to rearrange reality to fit your perception rather than alter your perception and admit that you’re possibly wrong.
Yeah. It’s totally the sunken cost fallacy. They mistakenly think that there is too much to lose to change their minds and cut their losses.
That is a wonderful analogy!
DING DING DING. The 10 or so mega corporations that are left after all the consolidation 2 Electric Boogaloo are making BANK so yeah… We good. /s
I’m no fucking expert, but I’ve been around this shit show of a world long enough to realize that “economy good” equals Stockmarket is good which translates to rich people are still getting richer so fuck NBC
I just see this as one more revolution. Not the good kind, just the “neutral” kind that the great George Carlin talked about, as we continue to circle the drain as a species…
Shut the fuck up Gingrich nobody cares about your fuckhead opinions.
It’s much worse than that. Trump can’t be president again because he will quite possibly be the last president thr US will ever have, at least until he dies of cheeseburger overdose.