The End Times

The End Times

@TheAgeofShoddy

"The world has seen its…silver age, its golden age….This is the age of shoddy." - New York Herald

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Leaving aside the intensely distasteful qualities of both of these theories, a lot of this can be summed up as: hypercompetition produces parenting styles and institutions which do...

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One answer is to back a step up and ask: at what point could we last say that there was a consistent ethic of responsibility and accountability for the use of power in America? Wel...

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The purpose of film and the culture around it is to 1) make money and 2) express hatred and contempt for socially acceptable targets. You cannot fix this from the outside and it wo...

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Journalism is about hurting people: locating ways to expose them to ridicule, shame, financial loss, prosecution, ostracism, sometimes threats to life and family. We can pretend ot...

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The counterpoint is that if “science,” meaning the institutions and systems in place to fund and execute scientific thinking for public goals, are incapable of fulfilling that purp...

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Not meant as a dunk, but the heart of the problem is that well-meaning people have not confronted that fact that these causes have been hijacked by people with profoundly different...

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1) Much contemporary entertainment is hostile to its consumers in various ways overt and subtle, and people pick up on that. 2) The problem is so widespread that if someone actual...

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4th wave feminism was an attempt, in part, to privatize the ownership of the idea of gender to a specific group; some forms of trans advocacy are attempts to do the same for a diff...

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On the “vibe shift.” It’s a good thread and I don’t disagree with any of it. All I want to add is that if you think this ends like Hollywood you’re way wrong. There’s no big happy...

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Consider what role “immigration” plays as an idea in this person’s conception of America, the world, power, and justice. https://t.co/Ik8a8neeCc