They aren’t the “party of science (fiction)”. They are the party of fantasy– Harry Potter and Buffy and sparkly vampires and unicorns and comic book superheroes and Socialist utopias.
The Fellowship of the Ring were the original Antifa!
I would say a lot of the cultural “left” is done with JK Rowling however, in the past few weeks over her stances on transgender.
I am curious though what people here think of the TV series For All Mankind. I note with interest that several top SpaceX executives like Garrett Reisman are serving as technical advisors to the producers. In fact the whole idea for the show supposedly started when the producers Ron Moore and Mike Okuda were invited to tour SpaceX and have lunch in the SpX cafeteria.
Democrat’s views on science are supremecist ones. They view themselves and more evolved than other humans beings, that they have transcended to a higher plane of enlightenment that entitles them to rule over the less evolved.
Poking holes in these views has little to no effect because rational thought isn’t the controling factor, identity politics and religiosity are. This is even true for many who work in the sciences.
The remake of “Cosmos” with Neil deGrasse Tyson had that oozing from every pore.
The “Cosmos” remake lost me with the paean to Giordano Bruno…
Not big into “remakes”. The first one was good enough for me.
Never saw the remake.
Kids These Days won’t pay attention to anything with ‘old’ aesthetics, so remaking Cosmos may not have been as pointless as appeared to be. I agree that spending time on Giordano Bruno was a misfire.
Kids These Days don’t watch TV. In fact I doubt they spend >3 minutes on any one video on their phones.
When they do the next remake of Cosmos, they’ll replace Bruno’s story with the heart-breaking martyrdom of Michael Mann.
I enjoyed the part where the Christian mob, I assume while they were under the command of Julius Caesar, burned down the library of Alexandria.
The remake wasn’t by scientists so much as anti-Christian zealots who are so poorly educated that they probably didn’t even realize they were just revisiting some highlights of the old propaganda campaigns between English Protestants (the Enlightenment!) and Spanish Catholics (close-minded, backwards, brutal anti-science tyrants! boo!).
I enjoyed the part where the Christian mob,…
Those Coptics are such partiers! Had they just stayed away from the Eucharist wine and it would have been fine!
And the burning, in 48 BC, must have been by very early Christians.
Tyson also focused on a woman who was murdered, and when you did into her story, she wasn’t killed for being “intellectual”, she was killed because she decided to put herself in the middle of a brutal civil power conflict where both sides were routinely conducting assassinations and massacres. If they do another remake, he’ll probably portray the CIA killing of Che Guerva as ignorant violent Christian rubes trying to wipe out doctors and medical science.
The difference between the two is that Sagan was actually trying to take you on a journey and show you this really cool universe he knows about. Tyson was just giving you a lecture.
” They view themselves and more evolved than other humans beings, that they have transcended to a higher plane of enlightenment that entitles them to rule over the less evolved. ”
This is otherwise known as *class*bigotry*, …with the determination of class being done in the University system, through issuance of degrees.
They’ve been warming up for years with their war on economics.
Both liberals and conservatives have participated in the war on economics. Just look at the federal “budget”
Well the science of psychology, at least of how to practice terror seems to be alive and well. Wonder if the Blue Marxist states will allow brownshirt blackshirt & masked antifa “protestors” to surround polling place and force voters to pass the gauntlet in order to vote?
They already do it for non-Democrat political events, so…
But it doesn’t matter what antifa does in the Blue states; those are voting Democrat anyway. Would be interesting (read: fun) if they tried it in a Red state. Only matters what they do and can do in swing states, if there are any left.
But it doesn’t matter what antifa does in the Blue states; those are voting Democrat anyway.
Well one could argue about “insurance” policies I suppose…
Between this and motor voter….
I just learned we are now in Latino Conservation Week. In order to investigate the postulated conservation of Latinos, I’m going to need a couple billion dollars to build a Latino detector.
Latino, like Asian, is a label liberals apply to a group of people of differing cultural backgrounds (Cubans are not Porto Ricans, and Porto Ricans are not Mexicans) so they can pretend they are all the same.
They’re all made up of Latino particles — the ethnic counterpart to the perfectly spherical cow.
Just wait until the Democrats find out that Hispanics are the descendants of the Conquistadors.
AOC brags that she’s a “person of color”, and thus an oppressed minority. Nope. She’s a descendant of Spaniards who raped and enslaved their way to power. The Statue of Liberty’s poem was written by a Jew who managed to escape New World Hispanic oppression.
AOC brags that she’s a “person of color”,
A person of Westchester Co. NY yes. Been there. Very nice.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that “O’Casey” got Hispanicized into “Ocasio”, too.
Or does having red hair make the Irish honorary Colored People?
They all look the same to democrats, because of the color of their skin. Latinos should be called the L word and held in equal contempt as the N word. Color of skin is all democrats see, which is why “Black Lives Matter” only when a white cop kills a black suspect.
No no no. Black lives also matter when white hispanics kill black kids who just bought or stole (can’t remember which) candy and soda and beat the crap out of the aforesaid white hispanic.
Every so often I wish this site had an upvote function. This is one of those times.
So tell me, how will you construct your detector? Last I read, you’d need a border wall of lead a light-year thick.
OT, Lileks is in epic mode this morning, addressing the proposition that enjoyment of classical music requires recognition of an abusive relationship.
This is, to use their term, erasure, and effectively removes 2,000 years of history from the books and replaces it with a Pantone strip of bone-white paint overlaid with a 404 page.
RTWT.
High time we start producing socially adjusted pianos featuring all black keys? I’ve seen pianos that interchange the white and black keys, but that’s just cultural appropriation as we all know…
You’re in trouble David, you wrote “black” twice without a capital “B”. I’m backing away now…
Black Keys Matter.
Don’t give ’em any ideas.
Then again, I remember kiddie toy pianos with a rainbow of color coded keys to help us little monsters bang out a semi-recognizable tune.
All written music is hopelessly racist.
Who determined a ‘whole’ note is all white?
That at best a ‘black’ note can only be a fraction of the duration of a white note? Doing remediation of stringing together multiple black notes in a ‘sustain’ is just another example of white note supremacy.
Nope. Black Notes Matter. Show me any significant piece of music that isn’t mostly black notes? Written music must change with the times!
Show me any significant piece of music that isn’t mostly black notes?
Okay the bass clef part of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” doesn’t count, because, it’s classical…
They aren’t the “party of science (fiction)”. They are the party of fantasy– Harry Potter and Buffy and sparkly vampires and unicorns and comic book superheroes and Socialist utopias.
The Fellowship of the Ring were the original Antifa!
I would say a lot of the cultural “left” is done with JK Rowling however, in the past few weeks over her stances on transgender.
I am curious though what people here think of the TV series For All Mankind. I note with interest that several top SpaceX executives like Garrett Reisman are serving as technical advisors to the producers. In fact the whole idea for the show supposedly started when the producers Ron Moore and Mike Okuda were invited to tour SpaceX and have lunch in the SpX cafeteria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)
Democrat’s views on science are supremecist ones. They view themselves and more evolved than other humans beings, that they have transcended to a higher plane of enlightenment that entitles them to rule over the less evolved.
Poking holes in these views has little to no effect because rational thought isn’t the controling factor, identity politics and religiosity are. This is even true for many who work in the sciences.
The remake of “Cosmos” with Neil deGrasse Tyson had that oozing from every pore.
The “Cosmos” remake lost me with the paean to Giordano Bruno…
Not big into “remakes”. The first one was good enough for me.
Never saw the remake.
Kids These Days won’t pay attention to anything with ‘old’ aesthetics, so remaking Cosmos may not have been as pointless as appeared to be. I agree that spending time on Giordano Bruno was a misfire.
Kids These Days don’t watch TV. In fact I doubt they spend >3 minutes on any one video on their phones.
When they do the next remake of Cosmos, they’ll replace Bruno’s story with the heart-breaking martyrdom of Michael Mann.
I enjoyed the part where the Christian mob, I assume while they were under the command of Julius Caesar, burned down the library of Alexandria.
The remake wasn’t by scientists so much as anti-Christian zealots who are so poorly educated that they probably didn’t even realize they were just revisiting some highlights of the old propaganda campaigns between English Protestants (the Enlightenment!) and Spanish Catholics (close-minded, backwards, brutal anti-science tyrants! boo!).
I enjoyed the part where the Christian mob,…
Those Coptics are such partiers! Had they just stayed away from the Eucharist wine and it would have been fine!
And the burning, in 48 BC, must have been by very early Christians.
Tyson also focused on a woman who was murdered, and when you did into her story, she wasn’t killed for being “intellectual”, she was killed because she decided to put herself in the middle of a brutal civil power conflict where both sides were routinely conducting assassinations and massacres. If they do another remake, he’ll probably portray the CIA killing of Che Guerva as ignorant violent Christian rubes trying to wipe out doctors and medical science.
The difference between the two is that Sagan was actually trying to take you on a journey and show you this really cool universe he knows about. Tyson was just giving you a lecture.
” They view themselves and more evolved than other humans beings, that they have transcended to a higher plane of enlightenment that entitles them to rule over the less evolved. ”
This is otherwise known as *class*bigotry*, …with the determination of class being done in the University system, through issuance of degrees.
They’ve been warming up for years with their war on economics.
Both liberals and conservatives have participated in the war on economics. Just look at the federal “budget”
Well the science of psychology, at least of how to practice terror seems to be alive and well. Wonder if the Blue Marxist states will allow
brownshirtblackshirt & masked antifa “protestors” to surround polling place and force voters to pass the gauntlet in order to vote?They already do it for non-Democrat political events, so…
But it doesn’t matter what antifa does in the Blue states; those are voting Democrat anyway. Would be interesting (read: fun) if they tried it in a Red state. Only matters what they do and can do in swing states, if there are any left.
But it doesn’t matter what antifa does in the Blue states; those are voting Democrat anyway.
Well one could argue about “insurance” policies I suppose…
Between this and motor voter….
I just learned we are now in Latino Conservation Week. In order to investigate the postulated conservation of Latinos, I’m going to need a couple billion dollars to build a Latino detector.
Latino, like Asian, is a label liberals apply to a group of people of differing cultural backgrounds (Cubans are not Porto Ricans, and Porto Ricans are not Mexicans) so they can pretend they are all the same.
They’re all made up of Latino particles — the ethnic counterpart to the perfectly spherical cow.
Just wait until the Democrats find out that Hispanics are the descendants of the Conquistadors.
AOC brags that she’s a “person of color”, and thus an oppressed minority. Nope. She’s a descendant of Spaniards who raped and enslaved their way to power. The Statue of Liberty’s poem was written by a Jew who managed to escape New World Hispanic oppression.
AOC brags that she’s a “person of color”,
A person of Westchester Co. NY yes. Been there. Very nice.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that “O’Casey” got Hispanicized into “Ocasio”, too.
Or does having red hair make the Irish honorary Colored People?
They all look the same to democrats, because of the color of their skin. Latinos should be called the L word and held in equal contempt as the N word. Color of skin is all democrats see, which is why “Black Lives Matter” only when a white cop kills a black suspect.
No no no. Black lives also matter when white hispanics kill black kids who just bought or stole (can’t remember which) candy and soda and beat the crap out of the aforesaid white hispanic.
Every so often I wish this site had an upvote function. This is one of those times.
So tell me, how will you construct your detector? Last I read, you’d need a border wall of lead a light-year thick.
OT, Lileks is in epic mode this morning, addressing the proposition that enjoyment of classical music requires recognition of an abusive relationship.
This is, to use their term, erasure, and effectively removes 2,000 years of history from the books and replaces it with a Pantone strip of bone-white paint overlaid with a 404 page.
RTWT.
High time we start producing socially adjusted pianos featuring all black keys? I’ve seen pianos that interchange the white and black keys, but that’s just cultural appropriation as we all know…
You’re in trouble David, you wrote “black” twice without a capital “B”. I’m backing away now…
Black Keys Matter.
Don’t give ’em any ideas.
Then again, I remember kiddie toy pianos with a rainbow of color coded keys to help us little monsters bang out a semi-recognizable tune.
All written music is hopelessly racist.
Who determined a ‘whole’ note is all white?
That at best a ‘black’ note can only be a fraction of the duration of a white note? Doing remediation of stringing together multiple black notes in a ‘sustain’ is just another example of white note supremacy.
Nope. Black Notes Matter. Show me any significant piece of music that isn’t mostly black notes? Written music must change with the times!
Show me any significant piece of music that isn’t mostly black notes?
Okay the bass clef part of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” doesn’t count, because, it’s classical…