Would I be out of line pointing out that having a shirt store that's offering sweatshirts in April in Texas and not a single tank top in sight seems a tad out of step? 🤣
My problem with most of what comes out of the 'Wood these days bores the crap out of me because they're either remakes of better movies or more of whatever was the last huge franchise hit or so obviously designed to manipulate human psychology it's terrifying? Fortunately, Monty Python is on Roku, so I'm good.
With the “dire wolves” (and I refuse to refer to them as anything other than quotes), it’s not even that the crew didn’t get “Jurassic Park,” either book or movie. It’s that the concepts and warnings got them hot and bothered. It’s like the whole current push toward AI: what we’re getting isn’t real AI, but a rough guesstimate and fervent hope from people who masturbate like caged apes over the thought of “leaving the meat behind.” Yeah, you have Sam Altman’s acolytes who think that everyone uploaded as digital consciousnesses is as close to heaven as they can get, but they have no interest in the opinions of those who’d look at it as hell. (I swore long ago that if the Singularity actually happened, and my future involved a perpetual digital immortality among the Cat Piss Men who thought it was such a great idea, I’d settle the matter with a large enough shotgun round to make sure there wasn’t enough brain left to scan, far enough out in a bayou that the alligators and snapping turtles didn’t leave enough bits for cloning.)
I know Gatekeeping is bad, but I’m not suggesting that if a person doesn’t get The Wizard of Oz, they can’t come to the Fourth of July picnic. However, I do think that there is a shared societal obligation to participate in a minimal level in the culture at large. Not at the expense of individuality nor to the exclusion of sub-cultures, which I very much hold to. But in the general educational sense of what we overall value, those tenets and precepts should be taught to us along with readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmatic.
I don’t subscribe to the idea of a monoculture, but I really flip out when people tell me that they are 30 years old and haven’t seen Star Wars, to say nothing of The Godfather. You don’t need a college education to be a person of substance, but damn, how did you get so old without saying to someone “May the Force be with you?”
Would I be out of line pointing out that having a shirt store that's offering sweatshirts in April in Texas and not a single tank top in sight seems a tad out of step? 🤣
My problem with most of what comes out of the 'Wood these days bores the crap out of me because they're either remakes of better movies or more of whatever was the last huge franchise hit or so obviously designed to manipulate human psychology it's terrifying? Fortunately, Monty Python is on Roku, so I'm good.
Not at all! I don’t know what I’m doing!
And Hollywood needs to periodically collapse and die so it can be reborn again. We are nearing the end of that phase, I think.
With the “dire wolves” (and I refuse to refer to them as anything other than quotes), it’s not even that the crew didn’t get “Jurassic Park,” either book or movie. It’s that the concepts and warnings got them hot and bothered. It’s like the whole current push toward AI: what we’re getting isn’t real AI, but a rough guesstimate and fervent hope from people who masturbate like caged apes over the thought of “leaving the meat behind.” Yeah, you have Sam Altman’s acolytes who think that everyone uploaded as digital consciousnesses is as close to heaven as they can get, but they have no interest in the opinions of those who’d look at it as hell. (I swore long ago that if the Singularity actually happened, and my future involved a perpetual digital immortality among the Cat Piss Men who thought it was such a great idea, I’d settle the matter with a large enough shotgun round to make sure there wasn’t enough brain left to scan, far enough out in a bayou that the alligators and snapping turtles didn’t leave enough bits for cloning.)
Would Hirsch mind at all if Canadians also learned what Americans need to know?
Of course, the effectiveness of cultural gatekeeping depends on who is doing it and for what purpose?
I know Gatekeeping is bad, but I’m not suggesting that if a person doesn’t get The Wizard of Oz, they can’t come to the Fourth of July picnic. However, I do think that there is a shared societal obligation to participate in a minimal level in the culture at large. Not at the expense of individuality nor to the exclusion of sub-cultures, which I very much hold to. But in the general educational sense of what we overall value, those tenets and precepts should be taught to us along with readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmatic.
I don’t subscribe to the idea of a monoculture, but I really flip out when people tell me that they are 30 years old and haven’t seen Star Wars, to say nothing of The Godfather. You don’t need a college education to be a person of substance, but damn, how did you get so old without saying to someone “May the Force be with you?”
Depending on which Boston accent, yeah. I mean, those assholes from Southie, yes, but up on the Hill? Nah.