At the moment, I cannot imagine what the plan might be except face each horror as it comes. But I'm not an expert at planning anything, so don't listen to me. I just hope America's case isn't terminal.
I don't believe you for a minute. I'll bet you can plan a 7-course dinner that would leave most people agape, with no noticeable effort. Or at least a fabulous classic gin martini, shaken to the point of leaving a flotilla of those tiny ice crystals I so adore. And also, I'm humbled by your presence here.
Well you can just stop the humble business right this minute.
I have no problem planning a meal or a trip or a well-chilled martini or what have you. I just always draw a total blank when it comes to planning for the future, just like pretty much every gay man I know of my micro-generation.
No, really, I am really glad you stopped by. I hope you'll give my older posts a read, and I look forward to any feedback, even those which reinforce my low self-esteem.
U.S. schools gave up on the human long time ago, when they gave up on humanities (adding insult to injury by allowing the continuous batteries of standardized testing to enforce the dehumanization. So now, ancillary to kids addicted to social media is how the males especially among them suffer even more from having no humanities in their schools to counter the social media world’s personal vacuity.
Scott Galloway has been eloquent on the massive damages due to "incels" – our millions of involuntarily celibate young men.
But he keeps in view the larger context – how their generation loses the most from wealth transfers both to wealthy elites and to older generations. Young adults cannot buy houses. Are crushed by student loan debt. Among elites in mainstream media have no role models for reading or quoting anything.
Dems made huge mistake giving platforms to wealthy celebrities. Huge mistake following Simon Rosenberg and his love of the old status quo machinery, when no Dems have any humanities to see any human suffering.
These failures of vision extend worldwide, where philosopher Slavoj Žižek credits Putin with galvanizing some leadership of the BRICS countries. There, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, western universities’ failure to access “others” by their humanities leaves whole nations vulnerable to the demagoguery so Putin allies with dictators everywhere.
Slavoj Žižek stresses how we can’t leave out the human. Got to stress it. Keep some human passion, some reserves of the personal, as John Rochat got reminded of this ten years ago. Or, as Slavoj Žižek put it in a recent interview with Riz Khan, “To tell the truth you cannot occupy a neutral position, you must be shocked and engaged.”
John that story only makes very clear what KIND of a doctor you are - many somehow have lost the empathy and compassion they possibly once had. You didnt. Wish there were more like you.
Have to add, without fur kids - why indeed would we want to hang around? They make life so much more livable - when humans fail!
At the moment, I cannot imagine what the plan might be except face each horror as it comes. But I'm not an expert at planning anything, so don't listen to me. I just hope America's case isn't terminal.
I don't believe you for a minute. I'll bet you can plan a 7-course dinner that would leave most people agape, with no noticeable effort. Or at least a fabulous classic gin martini, shaken to the point of leaving a flotilla of those tiny ice crystals I so adore. And also, I'm humbled by your presence here.
Well you can just stop the humble business right this minute.
I have no problem planning a meal or a trip or a well-chilled martini or what have you. I just always draw a total blank when it comes to planning for the future, just like pretty much every gay man I know of my micro-generation.
No, really, I am really glad you stopped by. I hope you'll give my older posts a read, and I look forward to any feedback, even those which reinforce my low self-esteem.
Being human, not just professional.
U.S. schools gave up on the human long time ago, when they gave up on humanities (adding insult to injury by allowing the continuous batteries of standardized testing to enforce the dehumanization. So now, ancillary to kids addicted to social media is how the males especially among them suffer even more from having no humanities in their schools to counter the social media world’s personal vacuity.
Scott Galloway has been eloquent on the massive damages due to "incels" – our millions of involuntarily celibate young men.
But he keeps in view the larger context – how their generation loses the most from wealth transfers both to wealthy elites and to older generations. Young adults cannot buy houses. Are crushed by student loan debt. Among elites in mainstream media have no role models for reading or quoting anything.
Dems made huge mistake giving platforms to wealthy celebrities. Huge mistake following Simon Rosenberg and his love of the old status quo machinery, when no Dems have any humanities to see any human suffering.
These failures of vision extend worldwide, where philosopher Slavoj Žižek credits Putin with galvanizing some leadership of the BRICS countries. There, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, western universities’ failure to access “others” by their humanities leaves whole nations vulnerable to the demagoguery so Putin allies with dictators everywhere.
Slavoj Žižek stresses how we can’t leave out the human. Got to stress it. Keep some human passion, some reserves of the personal, as John Rochat got reminded of this ten years ago. Or, as Slavoj Žižek put it in a recent interview with Riz Khan, “To tell the truth you cannot occupy a neutral position, you must be shocked and engaged.”
I assure you I am constantly reminded, Phil.
John that story only makes very clear what KIND of a doctor you are - many somehow have lost the empathy and compassion they possibly once had. You didnt. Wish there were more like you.
Have to add, without fur kids - why indeed would we want to hang around? They make life so much more livable - when humans fail!