tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7710836117783784131..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: Escapist Literature My Ass -- UPDATEdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36854125390193065502013-05-30T09:46:01.307-05:002013-05-30T09:46:01.307-05:00Yes! I am one of those with mad science fiction ch...Yes! I am one of those with mad science fiction chops and a long memory and I loved both The Marching Morons and Idiocracy.<br /><br />And Yes! Mike K. is right. Although I would say we are moving to a neofeudal arrangement where position/money/favored birth/religious belief/etc trumps actual science/facts/knowledge/competence.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70294384432677356892013-05-29T22:52:24.620-05:002013-05-29T22:52:24.620-05:00Mike K., it's not just you. It's every fuc...Mike K., it's not just you. It's every fucking time someone screams "<i><b>OMG IDIOCRACY!</b></i>" while pointing at someone/something they don't like. It's just so tiring to have to hear/read it again... and that's not even getting into the elitist undertones of Idiocracy itself.Pinkamena Panicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21480882214370197322013-05-29T20:01:07.469-05:002013-05-29T20:01:07.469-05:00From anon.
I may not have my PhD in econ ...but i...From anon. <br />I may not have my PhD in econ ...but i have my masters .....<br />And what I said is the absolute truth...<br />If not for the stimulus..we wold be looking at 22% unemployment .....right fucking now.<br />Take that you gg worshippers...<br /><br />blackdaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05554233110211227532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59401483191455102802013-05-29T18:59:57.375-05:002013-05-29T18:59:57.375-05:00JerryB,
The problem is, they are not seen as third...JerryB,<br />The problem is, they are not seen as third rate hacks. The grad student is socialist... something-something communism... Liberal Agenda... Kenyan Witchcraft! And, with that, the original authors can simply attack the student and never admit their paper is horribly flawed. <br /><br />Pinkamena,<br />I actually didn't say "stupid people are breeding". I was actually talking about people with higher degrees, up to M.D. / Ph.D. The last person to yell at me, and then step out of the room to badmouth me to her co-workers, because I was too lazy/stupid to "use the computer" to make the only power outlet slide along the wall to the opposite corner, was someone with a Masters in Public Health. I don't think the problem is who is bumping the uglies. I think the problem is that we are rapidly crashing into a post-fact, post-literate society. In my experience, people think that they don't have to know things because those who do are public servants or personal servants. The story "Idiocracy" is actually a much better metaphor, here. Knowledge and useful skill marks you as the servant class. People don't know, and don't want to know. They simply want to make decrees that make the other person inferior and servile, they want to be told that they are right and smart, and they want to be obeyed. When that demand to be obeyed involves things that a reasonable person can see involves sorcery, that's a problem.<br /><br />Mike.K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-68725945418950740222013-05-29T18:54:10.759-05:002013-05-29T18:54:10.759-05:00Reinhart and Rogoff, in a May 25 letter posted on ...<i>Reinhart and Rogoff, in a May 25 letter posted on Reinhart’s website, accused Krugman of “spectacularly uncivil behavior” for asserting in an article published in the New York Review of Books that they had withheld data from their research.</i><br /><br />Remember, kids: "uncivil" in the conservative lexicon means "calling us on our bullshit".Frank Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717740988326817494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90028322054742207492013-05-29T15:49:43.033-05:002013-05-29T15:49:43.033-05:00From celebrated authority to third rate hack in th...From celebrated authority to third rate hack in three easy steps. 1) Release error ridden paper supporting RW theory. 2) Accept accolades for error ridden paper. 3) Be discovered to have produced error ridden paper by lowly grad student.JerryBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-29016111329813641502013-05-29T12:59:52.686-05:002013-05-29T12:59:52.686-05:00Krugman: Look at all these graphs showing what hap...Krugman: Look at all these graphs showing what happened to the our economy after the stimulus. Look at these graphs of what has happened to the Euro economies after austerity...see the difference?<br />E.B.M.C: There you go with that "fag talk" again......<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7252394753344767972013-05-29T12:11:59.072-05:002013-05-29T12:11:59.072-05:00Compound F, do you mean American Thermidor?
Thank...Compound F, do you mean American Thermidor?<br /><br />Thanks for that, I'll have to check it out. <br /><br />http://archive.truthout.org/article/stirling-newberry-american-thermidor<br /><br />Scott Ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05751177999283862522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14694954045487269002013-05-29T00:25:20.288-05:002013-05-29T00:25:20.288-05:00sadly, Krugman is a "growth" specialist;...sadly, Krugman is a "growth" specialist; the last thing in the world, literally, the world needs. As for the politics of austerity, one would do well to read Stirling Newberry, in particular, his "American Thermicor thesis, and subsequent updates, which outline that austerity is simply a measure to prevent demand for scarce oil, until the "Reagan Play II," comes to fruition, which it won't. Thank you for your time.Compound Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12754909356084772352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12620725783447850632013-05-28T22:14:23.497-05:002013-05-28T22:14:23.497-05:00http://xkcd.com/603/
Please. Stop doing this. Eve...http://xkcd.com/603/<br /><br />Please. Stop doing this. Everyone.Pinkamena Panicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-60185524610027272332013-05-28T19:05:12.361-05:002013-05-28T19:05:12.361-05:00I work in IT, so as much as I liked that movie, I ...I work in IT, so as much as I liked that movie, I cannot tell you just how depressing it was. No, it is *NOT* "speculative" fiction. It's Tuesday. Every, fucking, Tuesday. And some Wednesdays.<br /><br />I cannot tell you how many persons with letters have gotten nasty with me because I am too lazy and/or incompetent and/or malfeasant to, say, "do something on the computer" to move a light switch or power outlet along the wall, or make the wall grow a new power or network outlet, or make she shelves on a desk's hutch grow taller, or make a monitor grow larger, or make a desk become weightless and slide along the floor because calling the movers is too much work. <br /><br />I have learned to never be shocked that people say some astoundingly stupid shit, and then defend it against someone trying to get them to see reason.<br /><br />Oh, and Driftglass, one of my captcha word was EPA. You may have to spray around the baseboards of your website for socialisms. If you don't spray often, you could start seeing communisms.<br /><br />Mike.K. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com