My “best life” will Be lived captain Ahab style as I harpoon a Demonlord to death whilst getting mortally wounded, dying off and then having my corpse mangled + harvested in a grotesque, vile manner. It has not yet arrived, but it definitely gets closer by the day!
Very good, but I would quibble about the use of multisyllable words like "business", "independent". and "alliances". The latter two especially - they're "book-larnin'" words.
So instead of "... and has been all up in our business...", I would have gone with "... and has been all up in our shit..." and so forth.
Yeah, I'm thinking the word vigilant was a bit of a reach. But then again, you are going to be teaching slightly above the level by sprinkling that stuff in there, which can be understood by context. I seriously think this should be in every school. The kids will cringe, dying of laughter over their desks, but that is an excellent mode of teaching, according to my mom, who was a teacher.
So, how did we get here, today, from 1776? One way was that the rhetoric of revolution became political staple. We liberated Texas from Mexico and then had to liberate slaves from their owners (people like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson) rather than let the new territories decide slavery for themselves. We then liberated women from men and Pillipinos, Cuabsn and Guam from Spain only to become the new imperial masters which went on to liberate all sorts of people during the world wars and the civil rights movement because Recontruction didn't take never mind allthe nation builidng we've done since.
Now, of course, we have to liberate people from their born sex.
In the process of liberating individuals we've become the empire and not a very orderly one.
We might reflect that theConstituion was intended to apply to only the4 Federal gov't. State constitutions were expected to make laws that "Congress shall make no law that,,"
Not until Reconstruction did state afaris go to the Supreme Court via the Reconstruction Amendments and by the end of Recosntruction the SC reverted to a narrow interpretation of them, too.
The world wars (1st, 2nd, Cold) and Civil Rights Movement put the Feds back into Radical Republican Recsontruction power but with Democrats in charge.
And now, this whole thing is fallng apart while it attempts to expand globally instead of "from sea to shining sea".
Ironically, our defeat in Ukraine may restore something of the republic we lost in 1860.
Who, honestly, would fight, "to the death", for Dylan Mulvany's right to say things one disagreed with?
I'd rather punch out Dylan Mulvany.
Patrick Henry was a propagandist indulging in hyperbole because, "let's just give treason a try" isn't motivating.
You can still get shot for that.
Anyone who insists upon his right to be heard likley isn't and the last thing any authority does wants is "free speech".
Look where that has gotten us. Chaos is the worst tyrant.
No, when we take power (and we will) I would cut out Dylan Mulvany's tongue and hoist his severed head on a pike, make up and all, to serve as a warning to anyone else who thinks there are 37 sexes and just has to tell eveyone about all of them.
We have become that immoral people for which our Constitution is inadequate, as John Adams opined.
Unforseen was that the immoral would use the Patriots' language of the Revoution and "freedom" to mask criminality.
Politicians do it too, "fighting for Democracy" in foreign wars which are really the antithesis.
The resut is that we are governed like any other imperial possession. "Red falg Laws" require us to prove our innocence of a crime we haven't committed, as in a "pre-emptive war". and, fact is, we are as a whole becoming too irresponsible to "bear arms", although prohibiting high crime negroes and perverts from possession, we won't do : "the equal protection" caluse of the 14th Amendment.
If the tree of liberty must be watered again by the blood of tyrants, those tyrants paradoxically masquerade as freedom fighters and those who'd impose are the liberators from chaos, the worst of tyrants.
This is what Mussolini meant when he said that people had too much freedom. He was looking at a civil war and stooped it. The muslims condemning freedom in England do so via English civil liberties and a compliant government.
Alas, "Freedom" has in fact led us to the simple barbarous choice to live or die as a people which we had hoped it would avoid. With any luck, we'll find ourselves not too civliized to do the right thing while we still have the numbers to do it.
As an exercise, that was both fascinating and horrifying - like watching a boa constrictor swallow a pig.
The most horrifying thing about it, though, is when you compare the TikTalk version to the glorious language of the original documents which were composed by men who wanted to make everything perfectly clear to the Gen Z of their time. And they did. Because, as you point out, the Zoomers then bear almost no resemblance to the current iteration. And it's not just the language.
"Far too many have been cognitively crippled."
Yep. Depending on what they are doing, people either think in words, or swim in inchoate emotions. If you don't possess the words that would allow you to think rationally, then emotion is all you have left with which to try to encompass reality. And it is pretty obvious that Gen Z is almost entirely a mass creature of emotion. It's why they are so easy to manipulate.
BTW, you mention Flesch-Kincaid. I remember when Microsoft Word, once upon a time an indispensible writing tool, incorporated it so you could check the reading skill level of what you were writing. That was when I was writing a lot of cyberpunk for publication - six or seven novels in a couple of years. I deliberately made sure my writing was about fifth grade level. Never higher than seventh.
This doesn't mean I was writing bad prose, though. I just ran Hemingway's iconic "A Very Short Story" through an online F-K calculator. It got a sixth grade level result.
"Depending on what they are doing, people either think in words, or swim in inchoate emotions"
I know of a small number of friends, mostly high-functioning autistic geniuses, think in images and abstract geometry. I've tried to ask them how that works, and they can't put it into words. I find that fascinating because words are my operating system.
By far, though, the majority of people are swimming in inchoate emotions. And I think it's deliberate. Have you ever read Ayn Rand's essay on education? "The Comprachicos"
I genuinely smiled (laughter is foreign to me; haven't laughed in years, probably never will again) reading this.
Bro spittin' some real shyeet! ;-)
Glad the good vibes got through. Keep living your best life.
My “best life” will Be lived captain Ahab style as I harpoon a Demonlord to death whilst getting mortally wounded, dying off and then having my corpse mangled + harvested in a grotesque, vile manner. It has not yet arrived, but it definitely gets closer by the day!
Bro spittin straight fire. Damn Redcoatz can’t keep us tied down. Bout to pop a cap against the Kang
You know I got your back bro, no cap.
But wuz we kangs?
Very good, but I would quibble about the use of multisyllable words like "business", "independent". and "alliances". The latter two especially - they're "book-larnin'" words.
So instead of "... and has been all up in our business...", I would have gone with "... and has been all up in our shit..." and so forth.
My bad
Yeah, I'm thinking the word vigilant was a bit of a reach. But then again, you are going to be teaching slightly above the level by sprinkling that stuff in there, which can be understood by context. I seriously think this should be in every school. The kids will cringe, dying of laughter over their desks, but that is an excellent mode of teaching, according to my mom, who was a teacher.
So, how did we get here, today, from 1776? One way was that the rhetoric of revolution became political staple. We liberated Texas from Mexico and then had to liberate slaves from their owners (people like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson) rather than let the new territories decide slavery for themselves. We then liberated women from men and Pillipinos, Cuabsn and Guam from Spain only to become the new imperial masters which went on to liberate all sorts of people during the world wars and the civil rights movement because Recontruction didn't take never mind allthe nation builidng we've done since.
Now, of course, we have to liberate people from their born sex.
In the process of liberating individuals we've become the empire and not a very orderly one.
We might reflect that theConstituion was intended to apply to only the4 Federal gov't. State constitutions were expected to make laws that "Congress shall make no law that,,"
Not until Reconstruction did state afaris go to the Supreme Court via the Reconstruction Amendments and by the end of Recosntruction the SC reverted to a narrow interpretation of them, too.
The world wars (1st, 2nd, Cold) and Civil Rights Movement put the Feds back into Radical Republican Recsontruction power but with Democrats in charge.
And now, this whole thing is fallng apart while it attempts to expand globally instead of "from sea to shining sea".
Ironically, our defeat in Ukraine may restore something of the republic we lost in 1860.
Everybody in the world has been liberated enough.
Word. You're spilling the tea of righteousness, bro.
0 counts of the word "bussin"
D-minus. See me after class.
No cap? My bad.
Who, honestly, would fight, "to the death", for Dylan Mulvany's right to say things one disagreed with?
I'd rather punch out Dylan Mulvany.
Patrick Henry was a propagandist indulging in hyperbole because, "let's just give treason a try" isn't motivating.
You can still get shot for that.
Anyone who insists upon his right to be heard likley isn't and the last thing any authority does wants is "free speech".
Look where that has gotten us. Chaos is the worst tyrant.
No, when we take power (and we will) I would cut out Dylan Mulvany's tongue and hoist his severed head on a pike, make up and all, to serve as a warning to anyone else who thinks there are 37 sexes and just has to tell eveyone about all of them.
Enough "revolution".
You straight-up mad bruh!
Not just angry.
We have become that immoral people for which our Constitution is inadequate, as John Adams opined.
Unforseen was that the immoral would use the Patriots' language of the Revoution and "freedom" to mask criminality.
Politicians do it too, "fighting for Democracy" in foreign wars which are really the antithesis.
The resut is that we are governed like any other imperial possession. "Red falg Laws" require us to prove our innocence of a crime we haven't committed, as in a "pre-emptive war". and, fact is, we are as a whole becoming too irresponsible to "bear arms", although prohibiting high crime negroes and perverts from possession, we won't do : "the equal protection" caluse of the 14th Amendment.
If the tree of liberty must be watered again by the blood of tyrants, those tyrants paradoxically masquerade as freedom fighters and those who'd impose are the liberators from chaos, the worst of tyrants.
This is what Mussolini meant when he said that people had too much freedom. He was looking at a civil war and stooped it. The muslims condemning freedom in England do so via English civil liberties and a compliant government.
Alas, "Freedom" has in fact led us to the simple barbarous choice to live or die as a people which we had hoped it would avoid. With any luck, we'll find ourselves not too civliized to do the right thing while we still have the numbers to do it.
“You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem
“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?” – Eminem
Dope piece, West Coast shout out ! As always thank you, happy 4th!
Hope your 4th was deadass bussin'
As an exercise, that was both fascinating and horrifying - like watching a boa constrictor swallow a pig.
The most horrifying thing about it, though, is when you compare the TikTalk version to the glorious language of the original documents which were composed by men who wanted to make everything perfectly clear to the Gen Z of their time. And they did. Because, as you point out, the Zoomers then bear almost no resemblance to the current iteration. And it's not just the language.
"Far too many have been cognitively crippled."
Yep. Depending on what they are doing, people either think in words, or swim in inchoate emotions. If you don't possess the words that would allow you to think rationally, then emotion is all you have left with which to try to encompass reality. And it is pretty obvious that Gen Z is almost entirely a mass creature of emotion. It's why they are so easy to manipulate.
BTW, you mention Flesch-Kincaid. I remember when Microsoft Word, once upon a time an indispensible writing tool, incorporated it so you could check the reading skill level of what you were writing. That was when I was writing a lot of cyberpunk for publication - six or seven novels in a couple of years. I deliberately made sure my writing was about fifth grade level. Never higher than seventh.
This doesn't mean I was writing bad prose, though. I just ran Hemingway's iconic "A Very Short Story" through an online F-K calculator. It got a sixth grade level result.
"Depending on what they are doing, people either think in words, or swim in inchoate emotions"
I know of a small number of friends, mostly high-functioning autistic geniuses, think in images and abstract geometry. I've tried to ask them how that works, and they can't put it into words. I find that fascinating because words are my operating system.
By far, though, the majority of people are swimming in inchoate emotions. And I think it's deliberate. Have you ever read Ayn Rand's essay on education? "The Comprachicos"
“Freedom can only exist in a society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights." ~ Benjamin Rush
Sorry Tree it's cringe to read
You're harshing my vibe fam
Angels and ministers of grace, defend us.
For real, yo.
Idiocracy comes directly to mind.
No cap, your comment is straight bussin'.
Keep painting Rita.
Fr fr
Drippy! All facts, no printer.
Just got reminded that there are some sections in the Constitution I still do not understand.
For sure. Some of that verbiage makes my head trip.
Bit late to the party yo, but thought ya all would enjoy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07FsI4vRULs&feature=youtu.be