Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-16-2020, 09:10 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Pbrower's issues have nothing to do with education.  He already knows that his education isn't worth shit.

His problem is his vitriolic hatred of 63 million Tea Partiers and Trump supporters, the same kind of hatred that Hutus had towards Tutsis, or that Nazis had toward Jews.  He's said as much many times, and he's even sometimes used the same kinds of words that Hitler used.

The problem with CNN is not simply that it's biased.  CNN is a sewer that specifically caters to the kind of hatred that pbrower exhibits.  CNN is even contrasted to MS-NBC, which is backed up by a real news department at NBC News that keeps the editorial content under control.

I generally don’t watch the actual CNN TV network, but I visit their web sight a lot.  I do not watch FOX much or visit their web sites.  I reviewed CNN’s web site looking for hate speech and found none.  Now, that isn’t to say they aren’t partisan.  In Trump, they have found much to dislike and say so clearly and truthfully.  But they are not like Xenakis in going for actual hate speech, in showing an emotional ideological bias.

Yes, Power is partisan.  Most people on this site are partisan.  No, he doesn’t have a lot of respect for the base of the other faction.  Most of the people here have not much respect for the other faction.

I have oft wondered how much the obsession with xenophobia comes from having xenophobia.  If you have strongly partisan beliefs, treat others that do not share those beliefs as stupid, you end up a pariah.  That has nothing do do with how accurate one’s predictions are.  If you make it a habit to mistreat others, you don’t expect them to stay in your social circle.

Education?  I have long thought that people choose their major because of what they like rather than what they will use in life.  Even my Electronics Engineering degree was centered more on how to bias transistors than how to interconnect integrated circuits.  They were centered on last decade’s technology.  I didn’t use it a lot professionally.  Liberal arts?  You might have fun learning nothing usable, and hand great amounts of money to colleges and universities who will gladly take it.  Generally, I do want to shake some sense in those who chase useless degrees.  

Still, my grand nephew picked up a writing degree, and has ended up a bank vice president.  My grand niece followed her passion towards the sea with an hard to break in professionally marine science degree, and worked a bunch of jobs that used the degree little before she finally managed to break into the right organization.  I have a picture of her cruising off a Cape Cod seal colony beach, counting seals bearing scars from close encounters with Great White Sharks.  Blue skies.  Gentle surf.  Life is rough.

Anyway, Pbower has studied his passion and reaped a benefit from it, if not a financial one.  If you happen to value life over dollars, that happens.

The reverse?  You have to be careful or you’ll end up a pariah.