Thursday, July 13, 2017

Round Up #1

I have decided to use Medium as my platform for my essays.  I am porting over my best pieces from former blogs over there.  Here are the ones I have moved so far:



I have also been engaging more with the reddit.  I highly recommend the r/collapse subreddit.

This thread on the paucity of high speed rail in the U.S. lead to some great discussion.

I wrote this comment, which I probably need to gather the evidence for it and expand it into an essay
Having taught these kids, I can assure you not to expect anything "glorious" out of them as a group. At least not the way you are describing.

The entitlement is only worse. Having screens since they were 5 gives them the highest mental health problems ever recorded. They themselves both know that and use their excuse for not doing anything.

I have no idea why they lean right, other than the fact that they are authoritarians because they are so damn impatient. Trump is the one candidate promising easy, quick fixes. If someone goes full commie, a bunch of them will go that way for "free stuff now."

I know it doesn't sound like it, but I know and love many kids in that group, and so I can say they are radicalized. The reason they aren't dems is because they want socialism, not liberalism.

Also, in doing research for another piece I saw this Reddit "ask me anything" featuring memory champion Ed Cooke. I found it much more charming than the product his company distributes.

These two tweets tell a story that strongly compliments the point I was making in The Bright Side of Collapse #2: It Wards off Moloch:
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Speaking of twitter, here is the most amusing moment from the wedding I attended.

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