Cancer Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 What's funny is that education is context from where I got this from. The Need for Thick Schools: Classical Education Against Cynicism http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/08/19796/ I like that article. It seems to me that as our world has become ever more technologically advanced, we humans have started to lose connection with each other. Education is (nominally) preparing students for a competitive job market, but is not really preparing them to be functional human beings. One of the big foci at this conference was all students--not just the high achievers or the ones we happen to like personally--need to feel like they have the opportunity and the support to be successful. I'm more ambivalent. I think he has an ideological agenda to advance, and I am profoundly suspicious of people with ideological agendas. I recall that it was in 9th grade that I bought into a cynical view of the world (and the continual burning anger that it had to be that way). It first manifested in an essay assigned in English class, and it seemed so different from my previous writing that the teacher didn't think I wrote it (and marked it down hard for that). Part of that package was adopting the resolution that no, I wasn't going to tell people what I wanted any more. Especially for those who already had power over me, it was an added lever, a means by which they could extract more out of me by raising false hope and running a bait-and-switch. People still ask you what you really want, and sometimes they ask this innocently, so you have to develop untrue answers that have enough plausibility to them to divert the questioners on a long-enough basis. ("Long-enough" meant three years; at that point I had lived that long in one place only once, and I knew I wouldn't until I was in college, at least.) I point this out because the writer may not realize that some of his students may already have reached my state, where they silently refused to give honest answers to that sort of question. It is precisely at the "thick" schools at which he is employed that instructors ask such questions, and (I submit) they do so with ulterior motives. Students who don't show the traits demanded by the instructors' fundamentally reactionary mindset have ... things happen to them. (Or not happen for them, if you see what I mean.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Fair enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 It just occurred to me that Sauraman may be a good example of the dilemma of Kantain ethics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 No reaction from me, as I have no idea to what you refer. For all I know, "dilemma of Kantian ethics" is whether you let others give you credit for something you kan't have done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 It just occurred to me that Sauraman may be a good example of the dilemma of Kantain ethics. ah, dilemma. "Subjectivity" is a better word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 Wilbury is a slang term for a mistake. Traveling Wilburys thus means "travelling...we'll bury it in the mix.". Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 Watching Blade Runner for the first time https://www.tor.com/2017/10/03/this-future-looks-familiar-watching-blade-runner-in-2017/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 5, 2017 Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 Has booked excellent seats for sequel's premiere on Friday evening. 2-D, as is right and proper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 5, 2017 Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 Has booked excellent seats for sequel's premiere on Friday evening. 2-D, as is right and proper. Agreed. If I want to watch something in 3-D, I'll go to a play. (Or the opera.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 5, 2017 Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 Right. For me, 3-D does almost nothing to enhance the experience. Plus, the tickets cost ~30% more, so no thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 I thought they'd cost 3D% more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 5, 2017 Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 We saw Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 3-D. If the objective of the film was to make viewers seasick, they succeeded with Lady P and me. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 6, 2017 Report Share Posted October 6, 2017 I saw one of the Hobbit movies in 3D. Didn't make me sick, but I don't like the phenomenon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 6, 2017 Report Share Posted October 6, 2017 I was so very disappointed in The Hobbit movies. They were almost on a Star Wars prequel level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2017 "A sunrise never promised you a sunset" ~ Captain Marvel (2016-) #9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 I suppose there are places where the planetary rotation is such that that's true. Hyperion, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 I think it is more metaphorical, like live each day to the fullest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 YOLO!!1!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 Y'guys ... That movie ... Such a movie it was ... Too bad about the fire alarm in the middle of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 That's quite a twist, all right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 Just a minor grease fire in the pizzeria-grill next door in the mall. Everyone wanted to keep on watching, until the staff asked us to evacute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 You can't trust atoms (and chemistry) they make up everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 Including you (and me), of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 You can't trust atoms (and chemistry) they make up everything. Not quite everything, maybe not even a majority of everything ... much of the dark matter seems to be nonbaryonic, but.... Including you (and me), of course. Yeah, true dat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 Ah, baryons ... Strutting around, thinking they're all that ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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