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Morning Open Thread - KHAAAAN! [1]
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Date: 2023-08-05
Not sure if I’m doing this right, but...
Good morning everyone and welcome to Thursday’s Morning Open Thread. Please allow me to introduce myself.
I made some posts in 2021 at The Hive, the forum at TalkingPointsMemo that’s behind a paywall. Apparently, I did a pretty good job of it, especially the part where I started composing a post about quantum computing and then decided not to, and somebody noticed.
I later thought that I had finished with posting for good on February 22, 2022, when I visited SomethingAwful and self-banned as Russia aggressively invaded Ukraine.
Then I went through a divorce from a woman who now lives multiple time zones away from me, while I maintained sole custody of my son under the most psychologically trying circumstances I could have imagined. I intend to make no further reference to my past here than that.
Since then, I’ve returned to posting, and the above image is the best proof I have that my one-man mission to gain more political power for Millenials and Democrats is working. (I did some drive-by trolling at The Hive fairly recently, and one of my avatars was Khan, and I guess another grammar nerd agreed that my trolling was more memorable than anything in the Dune movie.)
On to an actual point:
The best philosophical idea that’s come about from my standoffish, jerk-y posting on Eschaton is that Sympathy For The Devil is actually a test of the idea that Princess Anastasia did die during the Russian Revolution, and that since that may not be considered a confirmed fact, any amount of BS can be written surrounding such a claim, and can be called ‘psychoanalysis’, ‘economics’, or ‘0 → 1’, which were/are all white male-dominated professions where success and career advancement very quickly become at least as much a matter of BS rather than a matter of talent-based insight.
The idea that likely needs repeating, over and over, is that it’s no suprise that trendy Caucasian*-male-dominated fields of supposed intellectual heft are actually just means of men to strut their stuff and get more money and power than they deserve.
It apparently just takes one mathematical or unconfirmed factual claim in a speech or statement to keep a whole ocean of BS afloat.
What do you think is the best way to break through the BS (with full credit to Harry Frankfurt) and save the world? My best effort right now is this linktree, intended to support the Hollywood staff strike. Though I do have an ulterior romantic motive through all of this, aside from the ‘I want to run for POTUS and don’t know how’ bit.
Fin. Open thread.
* — I’ve been ‘spreading the gospel’ that everyone is white now, which I think is useful, so please forgive me the inaccurate terminology of ‘Caucasian’ for people formerly known as white to the exclusion of others. I’m a bit of a fan of Russian literature, so the Caucasus being a mountainous region along its southern border holds some extra significance for me.
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