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Except of course for the boys playing along with whatever the girls claim to believe in order to get sex. And if they end up married etc, the pretense must continue. At that point, does it really matter if the boys actually believe the nonsense, if they vote like they do?
Yes on both!
Presumably they both wound up solving lots of cases, to the surprise of everyone who thought they were being “punished.”
P.S. “12 seasons” might sound impressive, but for UK TV that doesn’t mean a lot. Season 1 had 6 episodes. Seasons 2 through 6 had 8 episodes each. The remaining 6 seasons had 10 episodes each. Total 107 episodes. Typical American shows, especially those made for regular TV not HBO Max etc, would have that many episodes in 3 or 4 seasons, 5 at most. The original Perry Mason reached 107 episodes early in season 4.
And, “Inspector Lynley” has a total of 24 episodes (23 if the premiere is counted as single), over 7 years, ending in 2007.
But at least they didn’t go YEARS between “series” (as they’re called over there) as many UK shows do. “Seasons” of 4 or 6 episodes, maybe 3 or more years apart, is not something most Americans want to deal with, except maybe when they can “binge” them all at once. “New Tricks” ended in 2015 so that’s easy.
6% interest on 30 trillion in debt is 1.8 trillion/year just for the interest, without touching principal.
They “never” touch the principal, though.
Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is almost guaranteed to be good.
I don’t know if this is even available for streaming anywhere, but it was great. Unfortunately they ended the first season on a cliffhanger, and then it wasn’t picked up for a second season.
Uhhh. What?
Oh, I thought you meant Burn Notice only had one season. Links like that aren’t always easy to spot.
Yeah, I wasn’t clear. And the lead wasn’t Bruce, although he had some very Bruce Campell-like mannerism.
But here’s the thing: At least half the boys do believe it, and fully 3/4 of the girls do — this according to someone who was right there on the front lines and knows whereof he speaks (sorry Lois; sorry Rob):
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students
I guess you could assay I’m also “on the front lines” because I am also a teacher. I’m not in Manhattan, but I reject the idea that NYC is a good reflection of our entire country.
Some kids are definitely very, very “woke” to the point of self righteous brainwashed level. I’ve had those kids in classes. The overwhelming ideology they are fed is Leftist, so that makes sense. But there are other students, too. And they definitely don’t fit into that category. Even in the elite law schools, which are the wiliest of the woke woke woooookkkkke.
Who do you think joins the Federalist Society?
Also, men and women have different voting patterns. Is a man who can’t hold his own ideas a man? Ummmm…. I think a woman has her own mind, too. Additionally. People might be woke to get laid. But they don’t marry people with different values unless they are stupid.
If you have a kid who has heard nothing but Leftist thoughts, and you introduce some counters, they actually *can* follow. This doesn’t mean they won’t still conclude that the Left is right, but they often moderate their positions and show they can question their premises. I can also see the kids who are more conservative show their hands in the classroom. Their masks break when they nod or smile at a statement about first principles or common sense or something. I question their positions, too, but they find there’s some validation to be had for their positions, and that is rare for them in school. That group is there. The workers are the richest. And, as you might figure out, the whole country isn’t rich. We don’t all teach at feeder schools to Harvard.
All that said, it’s essential the Right takes back some of the institutions. Or at least gets more of a seat at the table. It’s very discouraging per the direction of administrations. But don’t give up on kids. If you do, then you might as well just say all is lost.
Covering the ocean with oil-producing algae? What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t think the oil shows up on top of the ocean. You have to cook it and pressurize it or something. Oil is basically algae that mother nature has tortured the crap out of. I get that that probably isn’t the whole risk of it, though.
People never think about this, but oil is just very concentrated solar power. Stored solar.
So there needs to be more gay conservatives is what your saying?
That’s funny.
Sorry but I need a better basis for my optimism than simply “Please don’t give up!” Wish upon a star ain’t gonna cut it for me.
Right now, according to every available metric, the under-30 crowd is either A: fully on board with the Woke agenda (let’s call this group the Committed Minority) or B: not sufficiently alarmed by its expansion to see any real reason to oppose it (and let’s call this group the Compliant Majority. And Compliant Majorities — I remind you — have been responsible for the expansion of every insidious movement of the last 100 years).
Here’s a Bari Weiss podcast where she interviews the journalist Katie Herzog about the recent Woke capture of the medical community. The description is as follows:
“For several months, Katie Herzog has been talking to the country’s top doctors and professors about a new, creeping orthodoxy that has taken over the hospitals and medical schools where they work. These doctors say that whole areas of research are now off-limits … that top physicians are treating patients based on their race … that professors are apologizing for saying ‘male’ and ‘female’ … and that the students are policing the teachers. As one doctor put it: ’Wokeness feels like an existential threat.’ Today, Katie joins us to discuss the ideological purge happening within American medicine, where the stakes could not be higher.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honestly-with-bari-weiss/id1570872415?i=1000531754876
@filmklassik I have a question. How much of that is driven by college and shelter being so over priced these days? The lack of being able to get a prestigious, and decent paying job like you could 40 years ago when you got out of college? Anything else related to that, like general opportunity and prestige.
Personally I think most people are losing a lot of agency because we screwed up so badly from what the Founders set up. I would probably buy a lot of crazy crap too under those circumstances.
If you don’t have a big opinion, that’s OK.
Wokeness is a Western phenomenon. It has been on the march in America, Canada, the UK, Western Europe, Australia, etc. all at the same time. And this cannot be a coincidence. So I am extremely dubious about there being an economic or vocational basis for young people’s embrace of its ideas. Such a facile explanation does not accord with the facts on the ground, but I can see why traditional, “Chamber of Commerce” Republicans would be quick to offer it.
I think the far more likely explanation is that Wokeness is a de facto religion (and an attractive one) — a secular faith that young people derive tremendous meaning from.
Also Scandinavia. So the retreat of Protestantism makes people woke? Everyplace you mentioned is mostly Protestant.
Fair enough. Personally I think people do fewer stupid / immoral things if they have an actual agency.
As I said, I personally deal with students who are under 30. There’s a reason I put up with the BS ideological pushes at my institution: I want to help kids examine ideas for merit, their own and others hoisted onto them.
I also said people are the most woke when they are in super elite institutions. There are only so many of those, but I mentioned That even at those, you often find conservative kids forming groups to push back. The Federalist Society was one I offered that makes a lot of difference at elite law schools.
I am doing what I can in my small pond to challenge ideas, and I see plenty of pushback against the idiocy. From the kids. Unfortunately, they—and I— can’t stand up to the administrators. But they aren’t all crazy Leftists or passive participants. That’s just simply inaccurate.
So You tell me what you think should be happening. I am doing what I can in my tiny context.
Finally, I think its right to view the woke as members of a powerful cult. What did I do to fight that in my own family, which includes a kid under 30????? I raised a Christian kid who thought through his own faith and decided as an adult to become a Catholic… not the Biden version either. There was no need for him to want to fit into a woke world. In fact, he’d tell you it’s full of false idols and lost souls…. That’s a family/cultural issue. And a God thing. Fortunately, God is bigger than any false faith.
Exactly: it began in 2003. The only thing that eventually killed New Tricks was the cast wandering off. Even so, not many UK police shows have lasted so long.
Why British TV adopted a philosophy of quality over quantity I don’t know. (In effect, each episode of a good show like Endeavour or Lynley is a made-for-TV movie.) Certainly, as American TV audiences have become more demanding, we see the number of episodes per season declining here, too.
It’s the wrong question. It’s why do we do so many? And the reason for that is that American television merely copied their business model from radio. That set a season at 26-weeks.
That lasted until the 1970s when it fell to 22. When cable television got into the scripted business they were basically doing traditional half seasons of 13 and now it’s dropped to 10. What streaming is doing is killing the traditional September to May schedule altogether.
… But the peer pressure on gays is even stronger.
Quite true, though, that boys are more defiant than girls:
“Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?” — The Wild One, 1953.
There are LOTs of stupid people in the world. And they get married often.
Well, if the ocean plankton etc die as a result, they have to start making Soylent Green from people.