It’s a focus thing- mine is limited (and conserved for work and my kid) So audio would be worse, lol. I can barely do short form/articles at this point. Maybe someday- but I’m not holding my breath. It’s been over a decade(kid is 12) and getting worse. Luckily I read a lot earlier in life.
I agree- it always bothered me that we went to other cultures(kabuki) as a pejorative when wrestling was right there. & definitely not benign. It •could• have been. But then I also watched Jerry Springer. So. I’m not blameless. There was a line at some point that others felt comfortable crossing
This started a long time ago- MTV used to do this for much smaller sums/stakes(I honestly don’t remember what they called it) It’s what brought us Joe Rogan(Fear Factor). But like everything people had to go bigger each time or lose attention. We just need to stop watching.
In school I had to debate both in favour of and against molehills and I won both. Debate has as much to do with truth as food photography does with eating. You can glue up the cheese and spray varnish on a doughnut and it will look gorgeous but if you actually swallow it it will fucking kill you.
Divide between people who think politics is an exercise in increasing status and career opportunities within a static system and those who think it's about creating the circumstances within which people can live well
This is the entire problem I’m having. None of this is new. That was a large part of the devastation in 2016. It wasn’t just that “we weren’t” ready for a woman president. It went further than that. We(the US)chose that man- a representative of the predator class. It wasn’t subtle.
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
This is how I felt with John Kerry being portrayed as a “flip flopper”. Why wouldn’t we want someone who, when presented with new information, changes their mind. Obviously the source/intention of that information matters. But to portray it as a general character flaw is weird.
