Today in Cultural Appropriation

The United State of Ad Hominem.

 

You write some good stuff sometimes ... without Will's #tendollarism.

 

Ketchup would be preferable to any Italian red sauce. That stuff makes me retch.

 

You've found a kernel of truth, fed it steroids and it has overgrown even your tremendous intellect.

 

Olive Garden?

 

You’re a monster.

 

You’re a monster.

 

I do like plain pasta with nothing on it! And mac 'n' cheese. That has to count for something.

 

You never disappoint.

 

Yeah, my post is probably a turn or two too far down the road. So is Arcade Fire's Rococo. So is a lot of what Arcade Fire does, which for about five years was the height of cool, and now it isn't, though the work didn't change much.

But as science, a message board is average sociology at best. That said, I know my fair share of coaches at this point, having covered sports for many years in a past life. It's a leadership crisis for them, nearly across the board.

At any rate, so I'm wrong? Set me right. What bugs me about ol Rick - and I don't know his age, it's just the posture - is that his main point, on repeat, is how stupid the rest of us are. He's not into growing the conversation, he's into correcting it. He's a privilege proctor.

Now, you take a guy like Double Down, and I don't agree with every line he writes, but...that's a person trying to spark some kind of discussion. That I can get down with.

 

Because modern political discourse is often not thoughtful and often not about being thoughtful. It’s a blood sport.

Shoot, look at what it becomes on here. Perhaps that’s the nature of our own anonymity, but perhaps it’s not. Maybe that’s a function of stakes. I can be thoughtful about a movie and bring people together. I can be thoughtful about a more important issue and be called all sorts of colorful things, possibly by people I like. Maybe that means I’m a millennial man raised to shy from confrontation. Maybe me arguing with people won’t make change or amount to much. I dunno.

(We’re of course living in far and away the most politically and culturally aware time ever. Perhaps there’s a natural balance that shifts toward the inane rather than the trench warfare politics had become)