Friday Ephemera
Today’s word is elegance. || Today’s other word is barkour. || Yeah, okay, it’s pretty big, I guess. || Banana in orbit. || He does this better than you do. || And she does this quite well. || Don’t tell your mother. || Rotary mobile phone. || Whiskey decanter of note. || The Dutch Headwind Cycling Championships. || Win $2,000 at the Takhini Hot Springs Hair Freezing Contest. || Korean classic film archive. || Snake makeover. || “Mathematics operates with unearned privilege, just like whiteness.” || Scenes from the North. || How to confound face recognition. || The glamour of flight. || And finally, “The more leftwing you are, the more likely you are to have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness.”
Elegant demolition of note:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1227692894288523265
If anyone needs new clothes…
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/shocker-grown-men-wont-dress-like-toddlers-romphim-clothing-firm-goes-bust/
Yeah, okay, it’s pretty big, I guess.
Meanwhile, 900 miles away in Honolulu, they ask you to define fireworks…
And finally, “The more leftwing you are, the more likely you are to have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness.”
LOL. *Shocked face*
Morning, all.
Meanwhile, 900 miles away in Honolulu, they ask you to define fireworks…
Well, yes, there is that.
Topical tune!
https://twitter.com/PlungeMeClunge/status/1228025988015108097
LOL. *Shocked face*
There are all sorts of caveats one could add, in terms of candidness and self-reporting, and the possibility that for reasons of self-interest people with chronic mental illness may be more inclined to leftist, i.e., redistributive, policies. But the correlation is quite pronounced and in no way surprised me. (See, for instance, this, and pretty much anything tagged ‘psychodrama’ and/or ‘academia’.)
As a general point, it seems to me that if your political persona is based to a large extent on unrealism, signalling and affectation, a kind of competitive piety, as a great deal of leftism is, then this pretension will attract certain, somewhat neurotic personality types and is likely to have psychological consequences of an unhappy kind. And so, perhaps, a feedback loop.
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And it scarcely needs pointing out how fashionable it now is, at least in leftist circles, to declare (or feign) some niche mental illness, as if being unwell, or broken, were a credential of some kind, a way to become interesting. (See, for instance, about a third of the articles that appear in Everyday Feminism, a publication almost wholly reliant on needless convolution and a kind of practised neuroticism.)
Just reading the thing can induce something akin to nausea.
Entirely unrelated to anything above.
“Entirely unrelated to anything above.”
Even if it’s not a Volkswagen?
Also entirely unrelated.
Incidentally, the woman in the video, the one indulging in a spot of harassment and recreational thuggery, refers to herself, proudly, as a “deranged leftist.”
And finally, “The more leftwing you are, the more likely you are to have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness.”
Envy isn’t healthy.
I’m not at all comfortable with that article about mental illness (and the reaction to it). We’ve had years of unpleasantness from Remoaners smearing everyone who disagrees with them as mentally deficient. A more extreme comparison could be drawn with the Soviet Union’s use of psychiatry to remove dissidents from society. It’s a nasty road to go down.
I do acknowledge that plenty of the idiots documented on this site have a habit of announcing quite proudly that they have some sort of personality disorder. In general, though, it’s better to play the ball not the man. Give people the basic respect of assuming that they came to their opinions intellectually.
Give people the basic respect of assuming that they came to their opinions intellectually.
It’s a fair assumption to start with; though, following the evidence, one won’t always end up there, or anywhere close.
Whoever does these, does them better than you do.
Whoever does these, does them better than you do.
Heh. As a Portal enthusiast quips, the lie is a cake.
Envy isn’t healthy.
That too. I’d add that if you’re spending every day pretending that you’re somehow oppressed by “the patriarchy,” or “whiteness,” or the looming Zombie Nazi Apocalypse, or some other woke fever dream, and telling yourself, based on nothing, that almost all of the people around you are seething with racial and sexual animus, directed at you, then this probably isn’t healthy either.
If your political theatrics entail things like this as a matter of routine, signalled daily in a bid for woke status, then you’re waving goodbye to any residual sense of proportion.
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Somewhat related, this farce of piety from last year.
And again, I’m not sure it much matters whether Ms Arquette is being sincere and believes what she tells the world, or merely feels compelled to pretend these things, publicly, over and over again. Either way, her behaviour is neurotic.
This and this are some of these.
[Rudely throws towel back to bartender]
Meanwhile, 900 miles away in Honolulu, they ask you to define fireworks…
Well…Hiroshima and Nagasaki say “hold my sake”.
/shows self out
[Rudely throws towel back to bartender]
Cleanest I’ve seen it.
[ Wipes bar. Also face of small child. ]
In general, though, it’s better to play the ball not the man.
Agreed, Charlie, though it is their batshit crazy ideas that makes one curious if they have mental conditions that explain the weapons-grade dissonance they carry within.
Don’t tell your mother
Wherein one of those rare instances, reading the comments are awesome.
Well…Hiroshima and Nagasaki say “hold my sake”.
Hiroshima + Nagasaki = 36 kilotons.
Honolulu says, “hold my mai tai”.
“Give people the basic respect of assuming that they came to their opinions intellectually.”
I believed that when I was a youngster. A lifetime of experience has put the lie to it. The vast majority of people come to their conclusions emotionally and subjectively. Once arrived at, they will most often cling to them like a drowning man with a plank.
Once arrived at, they will most often cling to them like a drowning man with a plank.
…and then advocate loudly for policies to punish those who invested in life rafts, or who decided not to blow holes in the hulls of their ships.
Because fairness!
@Darleen Wherein one of those rare instances, reading the comments are awesome.
Among the comments:
I noticed the children in my extended family who have an absent father do not know how to play rough.
When my sons were young, birthday parties usually involved hiring a 5 a side soccer pitch/school hall for an hour or two of soccer.
Then back to the house and further soccer/ competitive games/ wrestling in the garden.
Then food and birthday cake.
Then some would drift off to play and watch video games while some would go for more soccer/ wrestling in the garden.
I was in charge of all sporting activities and always there would be a few kids who kept me in the garden until it was going-home time- usually making me join in the games.
After several such parties, my wife pointed out to me that the kids who played in the garden until going-home time and insisted on my joining in were all boys with no father at home.
“Give people the basic respect of assuming that they came to their opinions intellectually.”
I believed that when I was a youngster. A lifetime of experience has put the lie to it.
–Agree
The vast majority of people come to their conclusions emotionally and subjectively.
–Disagree. Or maybe agree with important clarification. I believed that until just a few years ago. My current theory is that the vast majority of people come to their conclusions based on how often they hear the approved narrative, either overtly or through subsumption of the narrative into otherwise innocuous media. And also whoever will doggedly, repeatedly call them stupid or evil for not believing what the narrative people say. It’s more of an intimidation game and thus truth, reason, etc. are irrelevant and even one’s own emotions get kicked to the curb. Thus also the dependency on use of psychology and such to further keep people in line with approved double plus good thought. It is this that more overtly drives their emotional/subjective conclusions. The conflict that drove me to this was how people even seem to come to conclusions that even emotionally they should be predisposed to disagree with. Hard working people who support socialism, Jews who fall in line with anti-Semitic groups/policies, LGBT people who embrace or dismiss Islamic extremism, etc. It’s not so much that such people are a one-off, it’s the group mentality that they let themselves be herded into.
Roy Galvin, credentialed in the departments of architecture and business/econ studies at the University of Cambridge, has concluded that climate deniers can’t be influenced by moral arguments, so calling us evil will work.
I assume he’ll be in charge of designing the gas chambers when the revolution comes.
I assume he’ll be in charge of designing the gas chambers when the revolution comes.
Given historical trends odds are better that his brains will be used as organic GMO-free wall paint far before the first gas chambers are built.
This and this are some of these.
[Rudely throws towel back to bartender]
Hold . . . well, someone’s towel.
—I rather like the bit of making certain the earplugs are in.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki say “hold my sake”
Honolulu says “hold my mai tai”
[Betelgeuse has joined the conversation]
The more leftwing you are, the more likely you are to have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness.
Meanwhile in France, quel surprise:
https://news.yahoo.com/rape-charges-against-islamic-scholar-ramadan-182234031.html
The item on the privilege of mathematics left me nonplussed
My thoughts were divided, my doubts multiplied
Is it all a factor, a product of sum difference?
It all didn’t add up, maybe that’s the take-away message
”Give people the basic respect of assuming that they came to their opinions intellectually.”
I agree with that in principle.
I have in practice observed the survey to be true. One important caveat is that people who become seriously involved in politics, whichever type of politics we’re talking about, are *all* crazies. It takes a certain base level of self-obsession to claim that your political scheme, your way of doing things, is and always will be best for everyone.
But there’s some deep(ish) history going on here: at least as far back as romantic literature, it was quite common to sentimentalise and celebrate mental illness, and claim it as the true way of seeing the world. The progressive left are heirs to this ideology: so they don’t just accept mental imbalances, they tend to attract them.
Seattle woman.
Heil Honda! 🚗
We now have Jordan B. Peterson Derangement Syndrome:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385851.php
Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police
Seattle woman.
Well, I think that rather settles the argument about mental illness, but last time I looked, if you cut down a tree you get more sky, not a hole in it…
The intellectual class of 2020.
Apparently, use of the term “sacred cow” is not only “racist,” but sufficiently racist to make a student “not feel safe” because the term constitutes proof of a “white supremacist environment.”
Once again, we see academia’s Clown Quarter – the left’s proving ground and fiefdom – encouraging dysfunctional behaviour. In this case, competitive grievance-seeking over trivia, imposing on others and wasting their time with a game of pretentious emotional injury and claims of enduring an oppressive environment, all while being cossetted and indulged to an absurd degree.
It’s not exactly healthy.
The – in-no-way insane – left create an in-no-way insane solution to a problem of their own making. Everyone loves forms!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8CGz-VB-iU/?igshid=13bjgemeq92m5
[Betelgeuse has joined the conversation]
[ Slides well-thumbed pastry along bar. ]
Even if it’s not a Volkswagen?”
Ja. Fahrvergnügen?
[Betelgeuse has joined the conversation]
…with all the important news from 700+ years ago…
“Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.”
“or – brace yourself – Discord”
My daughter, the non-geek, set up her own Discord server to talk about fanfic, including Legend of Zelda.
I’ll denounce her immediately.
“or – brace yourself – Discord”
[ Looks up from strategy pages of Hades’ Star Discord, tuts disapprovingly. ]
I feel dirty and corrupted.
Glimmer of hope.
I feel dirty and corrupted
No refund – credit note only.
Further to recent rumblings, and for those few who may care, a Star Trek: Picard update. Episode four is slightly better than its predecessor, in that something actually happens and a familiar face returns. But even now, almost halfway through the series, the two main branches of the story – Picard’s glacial ‘quest’ and whatever’s happening (very, very slowly) on the Borg cube – still feel disjointed and unrelated. There’s no interaction between the two narrative threads, no sense of momentum or urgency.
It’s barely holding my attention.
I feel dirty and corrupted
No refund – credit note only.On second thought: no credit note: pre-existing condition.
God the 80s were spectacular