The hipster wouldn't call you the patriarchy for saying Beethoven is better than Gloria Gaynor, per se. He'd call you the patriarchy and Hitler and Stalin for saying anything is objectively better than anything. The right wing libertarian hipster did this too
It's interesting that Schumann is of a type that's supposed to be typically American and incapable of appearing in Germany - the well read, self taught, can't be Classical to save his life Maverick
The funny thing is the yuppie conservative obsession with Slop (you're not getting the best!) is the obverse of the yuppie leftist obsession with Mayo (you're eating racism!) - an actual culinary culture starts with appreciation for the most HUMBLE (Basic) local specialities
Was the best of the blues better than the best of today's homemade music, maybe, but here's what everyone's favorite Canadian fascist said about it in 1945
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
*except that basically no one on the left actually feels shame or guilt, the few who come in like that get taken advantage of by the poseurs until they can't or won't take it any more
A decent measure of how much the left or right actually wants to govern is their respective willingness to (a) admit to themselves that yes, this is how your side tends to go if you don't check it*, and (b) convince people who'd otherwise be on your side that you are checking it
"from the 1970s onward, farm policy reduced protections to family farmers and encouraged more and more focus on soybeans and corn by large farms. In 1996, as Basel Musharbash noted, Bill Clinton’s 'Wall Street farm bill' [...] encouraged the planting of corn and soy for export"
The problem with saying The Constitution Has Failed is it's the same constitution Franklin Roosevelt worked with and/or around, or: When your society is sound, you can work with an absurd constitution, when it isn't, you can't even work with a good one, much less CREATE one
The most interesting part is that the glory of Brel (not to mention Brassens, Gainsbourg, etc.) has apparently been cordoned off effectively enough that the reviewer can get away with saying continental music was inferior to the Anglo-Saxons in the FIFTIES and sixties
Of course in fairness to the Moroccan kids why should they be less stupid than the nations of Sweden and Finland eagerly throwing away their carefully preserved independence to jump on the sinking ship
Or Finland, whose experience in World War II I guess is sort of equivalent to America's limited-humiliation-remembered-as-limited-moral-victory in the War of 1812
Unfortunately an example of the worthlessness of the left - obviously ditch French, but (a) how can you not realize at this point that America and English are going down, and (b) how is your priority not keeping a filter between you and Lawrence Summers' awesome ideas?
“The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, we can hope, is better than what came before.” www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
"the disappearance of social values of religious origin leads to a moral crisis, to an impulse to destroy things and people (war) and ultimately to an attempt to abolish reality (the transgender phenomenon for American Democrats and the denial of global warming for Republicans, for example)"
Blueprint poll: 1-Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown (which has been true of every shutdown in US history) 2-Voters see the threat of ignoring Congress's power of the purse as EQUAL to loss of health care subsidies, even though health care is the only thing Dems have been messaging
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Ezra Klein for Dick Cavett, Ta-Nehisi Coates for James Baldwin
