A collection of 74 posts
Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.
Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.
The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.
“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.
n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.
As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.
Views on the news, delivered so smooth.
Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past.
Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”
“Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason.
When we tell ourselves we can be anything we want to be, which is the myth that emerges from Human Potential and self-esteem ideas, we’re setting ourselves up for unhappiness, because it’s simply not true.
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.
Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words.
I refuse to be discouraged by the sort of novel-gone-to-the-dogs pessimism that has been around for generations.
There is a way to keep corporations in check