—“men make endless informational videos, arguments, and trade false insults and true compliments. Women make selfies, give false compliments, and disapprove, shame, and ridicule anything that implies depreciation of their status, impulses, or emotions.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 19:11:00 UTC
.. but the momentum increases. The bifurcation in the polity is in no small part due to the distribution of pseudoscience and pseudo rationalism.
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 18:45:27 UTC
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@sapinker @chronicle Hard to argue with the data that higher ed sorts, and nothing of it is retained, and outside of STEM has done little more than replace the church’s theological dogma of frozen capital with a pseudoscientific dogma of the opposite. I mean you were on the bow wave of demarcation…
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@curtdoolittle
@sapinker @chronicle Hard to argue with the data that higher ed sorts, and nothing of it is retained, and outside of STEM has done little more than replace the church’s theological dogma of frozen capital with a pseudoscientific dogma of the opposite. I mean you were on the bow wave of demarcation…
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NASSIM TALEB ON ACTORS
(Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans:
a) How many ACTORs do you have among your friends?
b) How many ACTOR friends do your friends have?
Actors rarely mix with real people.
2) Romans banned actors from marrying, even mixing with citizens.
Same dynamics in modern times, but self-inflicted: engineers can mix w/gynecologists… actors stay with actors.
Look at the funerals of “gens du spectacle”.
3) I do not know many industries where people are hired either a) on looks, or b) ability to impersonate what one is not.
4) Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality.
They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external manifestation, given that everything in their world is appearance.
5) And for the slow thinkers on the thread, you don’t see gynecologists or train engineers lektchuring the rest of the world on virtue.
Actors do.
Gabish?
6) Remember: actors are trained to not seem stupid.
7) Now a harder questchon: what is the proportion of actors who voted for Hilary Monsanto-Malmaison?
8) OK, let me be blunt.
How many professions do you know, other than the ones where physical attributes are essential, where the modus “sleep your way up” prevails?
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 06:30:00 UTC
—“Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and values around the world. Perhaps America needs to reclaim Hollywood.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 06:25:00 UTC
DON’T LIE. IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY.
The only time it isn’t about money is when you’re trying to steal time, effort, money, property, status, opportunity, and political power.
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-28 11:42:00 UTC