probably. i don’t smile much and i’m quite happy and it seems to drive people into a rage when they ask me why I don’t smile and I tell them I don’t to fake it to make it. at least in american culture, if you are smiling constantly you are apparently horrible and depressed.
def not true of other cultures though. I lived in Germany for awhile, and they think the American obsession with smiling is utterly bizarre.
i mean, it’s always been that way more or less. in the 19th century it was slave owners robbing us until we had a civil war. then after that it was the gilded age until we had the great depression. etc.
only thing that will actually change things is another great social upheaval like a war or economic collapses, or both. you need the vast majority of people to suffer for them to actually want to change anything.
the current system still benefits too many people for their be any need for systematic change. the people in the top 10% of the economic bracket, myself included, benefit way too much from the current system.
but i can tell you that most of my economic peers are totally convinced they are not elites and not benefiting, and their rage is directed towards paying too much tax and being anti-growth.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-political-leaning/
2% of the harvard faculty identify as conservative, and only 16% are moderate. it’s a problem.
years ago it was more like 20% conservative, still a minority but way more representative of the general population.
some of my best professors were ‘conservative’ in my time at uni. In today’s environment they’d have never been allowed to hired because they would have ‘disqualifying’ beliefs. That’s messed up.
there is also systematic problem with these kinds of incredibly lopsided faculty environments that create a orthodoxy that is inherently problematic to have at an institution of inquiry and learning. exposure to different ideas allows you to challege such orthodoxy. I don’t want anyone going to uni to be subject an orthodoxy.
pretty much.
the asian case against Harvard was a bunch of rich asians being pissed they didn’t get more ‘slots’ at an ivy league school as their ticket to money and power. they had to ‘settle’ for their kids going to schools one step down where they will still have plenty of access to power and money… but they just won’t be the most ‘elite’.
both sides are greedy power hungry bastards. they just swap who they blame for societies problems
the liberal sided is over represented because conservative viewpoints are systematically discriminated against in most universities.
just bringing them up for discussion is considered sacrilegious. as a grad student I would bring up conservative talking points sometimes in my political philosophy classes and people would socially shun me and call me names for suggesting that conservative viewpoints have any legitimacy whatsoever.
it’s one thing to say you are open to differences… and another to be totally closed off to those differences in practice.
and FWIW I went to school int he early 2000s an then later again in the 2010s… and in the 2010s that is when a lot of this 'anti conservatism started. in the 2000s most people I met at uni were totally comfortable with ‘conservative’ ideas. for example, for a woman to just be a stay at home mom and that be a perfectly valid life. in 2000s nobody cared, but in 2010s all the sudden that became ‘controversial’ and if you argued a stay at home mom was a valid way for a woman to live her life, you were ‘misogynistic’. I was frankly appalled that people thought this way. I noticed they generally were accepting of certain lifestyles and believes, but totally closed off/discriminatory/hostile to others.
pretty much. people really dislike the ugliness of Trump. But he’s showing us how ugly most people really are.
So many people on the left/liberal are 100% OK with corruption, brainwashing etc, they claim to be against. As long as it’s their version of it and not a conservative version of it.
They don’t have to do that. Most universities are overwhelmingly democratic and leftist outside of business and legal schools.
conservative viewpoints are very much a minority on most higher ed campuses. they were not 30 years ago. but in the 90s things really started to consolidate at a rapid pace. conservatives and conservative ideas were systemically removed from campus discourses in favor of explicit liberal/left agendas embraced by university admins, who were chasing grant dollars.
Some people are, some people aren’t. Plenty of us aren’t pack creatures and we don’t associate with pack-minded people.
Any group or community that forks a ‘pack’ is one I immediately leave. I refuse to be dragged down into that nonsense and tribalism. It most often becomes abusive and coercive eventually.
I’ll never understand why it offends people that my job is just a job. It is not a social space for me. It’s a place of employment where I exchange my time and skills for a paycheck and healthcare.
I guess other people lack imagination to realize other people are different than them and have different values/priorities in life. I have family whose entire social/romantic life was co-mingled with their work life to the point they had zero friends outside of their company and would stop being friends with people who quit. Creepy and weird AF if you ask me.
I just want to get through he day so I can go live in my life. The fewer interactions I have means the faster the day goes. I also each lunch at my desk because it means I get to go home earlier. But often in my city I meet people who boast about working 60 hour weeks for no overtime pay. It’s wild. They let their pride/identity be used to exploit them.
And frankly WFH boosted my productivity like 500% and has meant I’ve gotten three promotions in 5 years and more than doubled my salary. None of that would have happened working in the office where people constantly kept coming up to me to ask for ‘favors’ that were never recorded and got pissed off when I told them to go back to their desk and write it up in an email.
It’s a really well crafted film.
Content puts a lot of people off though. Anyone I ever showed it to loses it at the mutating dogs and they won’t keep watching and gets very offended and starts thinking I’m some anti-dog psycho.
because they love the social skills and charisma. and don’t forget the looks/image.
they don’t care about the quality of the leadership. most folks would gladly follow a charming person to their own doom.
being a leader sucks.
i have had mulitple leadership roles in my life. i grew to hate everyone was so happy when i went back to being a grunt.
it’s a shitty thankless job and everyone blames you for their mistakes and you’re allowed to make none of your own.
hence why most people who end up leaders are the ones who are skilled at avoiding accountability and blaming others, purposefully inverting the leadership role.
i typically only became a leader because nobody else was willing to stand up. and the second you do stand up… everyone else starts resenting you and trying to tear you down.
Yeah it’s conspicuous consumption.
Just like Middle class people try to show off money/status buy having luxury cars.
Read this book for bookclub once. it was meh to me mostly. Typical barely above YA sci fi.
But the book club leader on the dicussion day vividly told us all how she fucked some gross russian guy twice her age and how all men are disgusting pigs but she has sex with for the lolz.
Least to say I left book club after this book.
sucks when the pesky limits of physical reality get in the way of your AI superintelligences from actually being intelligent.
there are lgbt people who are right wing
it makes them feel special/superior.
people are addicted to those feelings
background noise.
i put it on while i work for games i’ve already played or would never play
stupidity and laziness
Why should people be able to fly for cheap?
Air travel is the single biggest contributor to CO2 pollution that the average person produces. Environmentally speaking, air travel should more expensive.
And we have overtourism running rampant now precisely because air travel is now so cheap, destroying many local economies in tourism hot spots.