Practically, I think a lot of people were driven mad by diversity initiatives exactly because they are so petty, weird and ineffectual output of the professionals most of the time. "Stuff be annoying", more or less.
"There’s two problems here, in my opinion: first, that this isn’t really true outside of a bubble of elite professions. And second, that it doesn’t matter very much."
I think it's fine for people to write essays about what they and their peers experienced. Certainly a great deal of energy was devoted to making sure that it happened in the first place, and that they would be lied to about it.
There will always be frustrated people looking for someone else to blame.
Honestly, I’ve never been that interested in the mood swings of elite media and academia, or in policing whether every demographic feels sufficiently “seen.”
What I care about is about average person's experience and what we actually produce. The U.S. is drowning in services: we spend huge money on healthcare and education and still get worse health, debt, and declining capability.
Meanwhile, the sector that should be a priority—building and construction—gets squeezed. Education is supposed to create practical competence, but we’ve started treating spending and credentials as the product.
It’s become too expensive to build. That’s a big reason behind a lot of the discourse on men and why men feel stuck: the “do real things” ladder is harder to climb than it used to be. This is what bothers me and why i feel sympathetic torwards younger generations.
Practically, I think a lot of people were driven mad by diversity initiatives exactly because they are so petty, weird and ineffectual output of the professionals most of the time. "Stuff be annoying", more or less.
I found the pace of this article to be too fast throughout, there were many interesting ideas that I didn’t feel were fleshed out enough
"There’s two problems here, in my opinion: first, that this isn’t really true outside of a bubble of elite professions. And second, that it doesn’t matter very much."
I think it's fine for people to write essays about what they and their peers experienced. Certainly a great deal of energy was devoted to making sure that it happened in the first place, and that they would be lied to about it.
The Srinivasan link was probably supposed to be this one: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/amia-srinivasan/the-impossible-patient
Having a low opinion of Popper is like putting money in the bank.
There will always be frustrated people looking for someone else to blame.
Honestly, I’ve never been that interested in the mood swings of elite media and academia, or in policing whether every demographic feels sufficiently “seen.”
What I care about is about average person's experience and what we actually produce. The U.S. is drowning in services: we spend huge money on healthcare and education and still get worse health, debt, and declining capability.
Meanwhile, the sector that should be a priority—building and construction—gets squeezed. Education is supposed to create practical competence, but we’ve started treating spending and credentials as the product.
It’s become too expensive to build. That’s a big reason behind a lot of the discourse on men and why men feel stuck: the “do real things” ladder is harder to climb than it used to be. This is what bothers me and why i feel sympathetic torwards younger generations.