https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exzmE3vW_Tw&t=265s
Dm made a false claim about Psychiatry influencing the Holocaust and atrocities committed in Soviet Russia under Stalin. He also misquoted a psychiatric journal's discussion about religion and psychology.
These are three major falsehoods that need to be exposed in the main stream media. This interview is historic. It needs a through review by a historian.
ERB: Henry David Thoreau (italics) VS Ted Kaczynski (bold)
Ah, a fellow philosopher! Allow me to read your writings. After all, I must be educated on the man that Iโll be fighting.
The feds released your diary so I may as well start here. Iโll just flip to a new page and- whatโs this? Oh dear!
โI should have shot the fat whore and her childโ, what a story these words tell! I may have a neckbeard, but Ted, youโre an incel!
Iโm a pacifist, a transcendentalist, weโre nothing alike! You canโt control your sexual frustration- or the mic!
As a fellow student of Harvard, I know the work can drive you crazy. Except metaphorically, yknow, not actually batshit zany!
Writing rapโs not for you, go back to poems in the forest. Your rhymes and disses are so slow, theyโre like the US postal service!
You hid in a cabin to โfind yourselfโ and give your boring life some filler. I hid in a cabin to get shit done as Americaโs most-wanted serial killer!
I drop bars like I drop bombs, I got eight sentences for what was right! The most you ever did was sit in a jail cell for just one night!
You were right about technology but you should have been more pushy. You got nothing done, you were an embarrassment and a pussy!
If Iโm a pussy, that may be why you feel entitled to my attention. You wanted to hurt people man, stop pretending your plan had dimension!
Your journalโs public, remember? You arenโt fooling a soul! Technology was your scapegoat because you had nobody to hold!
Mommy didnโt love poor Ted so he got funny in the head, he built himself some bombs and now three people are dead!
Iโm the father of civil disobedience, I inspired Gandhi and King! Youโre the father of self-hatred, you didnโt inspire a thing!
Iโm one with nature, its grand majesty fills me. Youโre one with getting caught and crying after pleading guilty!
Youโre a self-indulgent shulker with a self-righteous personality, Iโm a hero for anarchism with multiple fatalities!
Iโm clear as a confession, I reject claims of insanity. Youโre an unwashed noble savage and a disappointment to your family.
While you sit around and write about how waterfalls are pretty, I make scenes of gore and horror, you can call me Ted Beksiลski.
Your activismโs performative, my manifestoโs informative, I shook society to the core and toppled down the normative.
**Youโre not a naturalist, you burned down the Walden Woods. In the grand scheme of nature, you did
... keep reading on reddit โกI have a hard time getting into fiction but I've found short stories from Ted Chiang and Greg Egan really engaging. I like that each story tends to engage with a philosophical idea or a "what if" premise. And that the prose style is quite simple/functional and not too bogged down with description. Suggestions for either short stories or novels would be great. Also really enjoy a good plot twist.
Was reading a review of the upcoming season of Ted Lasso and in episode 5, Ted apparently promotes his belief in "Rom-Communism", a worldview steeped in the principles established by romantic comedies of 1990s and 2000s
https://www.vulture.com/article/ted-lasso-season-two-review.html
Could David Brent get hired today?
Ricky Gervais, who awkwardly danced onto TV as Brent in the groundbreaking comedy โThe Officeโ in 2001, was recently interviewed about his and Stephen Merchantโs creation. โNow it would be canceled,โ he said, meaning a cultural rather than commercial verdict. โIโm looking forward to when they pick out one thing and try to cancel it.โ
Gervais later wrote on Twitter that his remarks were โclearly a joke.โ I believe the โjokeโ part. The โclearlyโ is debatable, given Gervaisโs long history of posturing that his humor is too real for the thought police. Either way, it was an odd claim to make right as his widely praised series was being celebrated for its two-decade anniversary.
But if Gervais did not entirely have a point, he was at least near one. โThe Officeโ might well be received differently if it were released today (if the Ricky Gervais of today would even create it). But the reasons go beyond โcancellationโ to changes in TVโs narrative style โ which have happened, at least in part, because โThe Officeโ and shows like it existed in the first place.
In TVโs ambitious comedies, as well as dramas, the arc of the last 20 years is not from bold risk-taking to spineless inoffensiveness. But it is, in broad terms, a shift from irony to sincerity.
By โironyโ here, I donโt mean the popular equation of the term with cynicism or snark. I mean an ironic mode of narrative, in which what a show โthinksโ is different from what its protagonist does. Two decades ago, TVโs most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of dark or acerbic detachment. Today, theyโre more likely to be earnest and direct.
You can see this change in the careers of some of the mediumโs biggest stars and in its creative energy overall. You could chalk the shift up to burnout with cringe comedies and antihero stories, to exhaustion with the cultural weaponization of irony, to changes in the viewership and creators of TV โ to all these and more.
But the upshot is that, if David Brent would be out of place in 2021, it wouldnโt be because of the strictures of some cultural human-resources department; it would be because of the current vogue for TV that says things, for better or worse, like it means them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/arts/television/ted-lasso-the-office.html
I'm a friend of Paddington.
If you're a fan of watching things about an unlikely foreign outsider who is a fish out of water in London but wins everyone over by turning them into the best versions of themselves with unflappable kindness and unwavering optimism, borrow someone's Apple+ login
On the newest episode, the guys brought up Danny Santana (the new David Ortiz). They said Ortiz was the most important player in Red Sox history. Then I thought, Ted Williams was probably the most important before him. It got me thinking that his death correlates pretty well with David's rise...
Ted Williams Death (TWD) on July 5, 2002. RIP his body.
David Ortiz Stats Before TWD: 42 HR, 193 RBI, 0.249/0.327/0.421, 2.6 WAR with an OPS+ of 95.3.
David Ortiz Stats After TWD: 499 HR, 1574 RBI, 0.293/0.374/0.575, 52.7 WAR with an OPS+ of 147. (10x All-Star, 7x Silver Slugger, 3x WS Champion, WS MVP)
