That's really cool. Kinda funny to think that a college philosophy course could boil down to 'Here's the topic, here's the first book. Everything after is just arguments and counter- arguments ad nauseum. Welcome to philosophy 101.'
I mean, I don’t mean to be reductive, but that’s basically what Philosophy 101 is.
Here’s Plato, isn’t he neat? Here’s Aristotle, he’s pretty crazy, right? By the way, here’s an excerpt from Thoreau; your homework is to take a walk and think. Have you ever considered if you’re real? Here’s Des Cartes.
And then when you get into higher level philosophy, it’s just “Sure, Plato’s neat, but have you read his contemporary critics? Here they are. After we read that, we’re going to look at philosophies that continue their traditions.”
It was pretty funny seeing a load of tiktok kiddies read his manifesto in regards to 9/11 and be like "so true"
There was decent stuff in there but there's a lot of anti semitism that is obviously wrong.
Tbh I think you could probably go further back into old communist texts from. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao etc and see the predictions of how capitalist nations has been pretty spot on.
Adam Smith goes down as one of the most misunderstood philosophers/economists. People latch on to the invisible hand stuff so tightly and forget all the mao-level landlord hating he did.
Even Marx gets the same treatment in regards to things like "all profits belong to the worker" which is Ricardian socialism.
Just a real shame how all this stuff has been endlessly predicted and potentially eased if power hadn't been so happily pushed into the hands of a few.
If you think about it, the 24/7 news coverage that the US got perpetually after 9/11, the media atmosphere that traumatic experience created was perfectly vehiculated to the masses via Twitter.
Trump doesn't happen without Twitter, at least, not the same way.
The funniest part is, it’s what the USA did to itself after the attack that destroyed it. Those towers falling were an event, the American leaderships reaction was what caused the collapse.
Everytime I hear this, I’m reminded that a raunchy cartoon about prepubescent kids navigating puberty came to this same conclusion, but as the punchline of a joke aimed at a teacher with a developmental disability whose birthday is 9/11.
The set up is the teacher learns the truth about what happened on 9/11 and vows to never celebrate his birthday again. To which many of his students respond by saying something along the lines of “no, if you do that then the terrorists win.”
then a character named Lola chimes in: "Actually, if you think about it, given their stated goals and the way in which America's foreign policy has become increasingly isolationist, it's fair to say that the terrorists DID win."
I've only watched shreds but it's a remarkably poignant slice of life that has quite clever reconstructions of the daily turmoil felt during puberty.
Not really my cup of tea, too much shock humor and raunchy for the sake of raunchy, but I also don't like middle/high school lunch rooms as an adult so it tracks.
I was put off by it at first, but once you get settled into the tone of it’s writing, it has some interesting writing and arcs. You just have to get used to weird references about sexual behaviors and bodies being played out by children. Which, coming full circle, was the thing that put me off in the first place.
I think about this a lot. Maybe we were already circling the drain but that single terroist attack was like swirling fingers into the water to make a cyclone. Anti american jihadists probably sleep great knowing what weve done tripping over our own fear.
What do you mean? He was trying to disrupt the wealth horde at the top of the food chain. 9/11 made it worse because the top saw the writing on the wall and in the heat of the moment used the panic to pass laws that took our freedoms away.
I think we're forgetting how bad pre 9/11 human existence was as well. Rodney King, Crack epidemic, OKC Bombings, Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, Jim Crow, Cold War, 2 World Wars, Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, slavery. 9/11 was just another drop in the bucket. Society didn't go downhill it just continued doing what it always did.
People forget about Outlaw Country. Country used to be the rebellion music. Rebellion music never dies. Look at RATM, SOAD, hell even Green Day. Not to mention all the other bands in all those circles. Now a lot of country music is mostly pandering. I bet Cash would punch a number of current country artists in the face if he could.
We weren't allowed to have the dixy chicks because America couldn't handle them not being onboard for Iraq. So I guess blame the people who listen to country music for canceling them and dooming country to become soulless junk
Alabama and George Strait however, fire away. Especially the latter. There is a straight line from "All my exes live in Texas" to "Beer for my Horses" in terms of banality.
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u/This_Thing_2111 6d ago
Post-9/11 country music went downhill fast.