tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4913404416219336886..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Hyperrich LeftistsStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21010615378977423942019-07-05T08:30:38.496-07:002019-07-05T08:30:38.496-07:00Many years ago I worked in a congressional campaig...Many years ago I worked in a congressional campaign for a candidate (Republican), who had been a high-ranking executive at a well-known Fortune 500 corporation. I remember a conversation with him in which I claimed that most corporations these days were (whatever the equivalent then was of) "woke". He didn't think so, but he had been out of it for a while, or maybe he didn't travel in such circles. Oh well. sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91532631374583069772019-07-05T00:22:57.874-07:002019-07-05T00:22:57.874-07:00I posted this on fb a while back, asking, "Is...I posted this on fb a while back, asking, "Is Gillette slitting its own throat?" This, after telling its customers they're toxic, made me wonder if they're not paring their market by making colossally wrong assumptions about what their market IS. Or perhaps in these woke times they don't care, preferring moral preening to selling to deplorables. <br />https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/this-quietly-powerful-gillette-ad-shows-a-dad-teaching-his-transgender-son-how-to-shave/?fbclid=IwAR3jskMjen4TYrb5DJD2Iz6HJW6RR-Zg4M-rmazOtNGhIlp1bBBGqhL4NsUWaltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14229795668033027922019-07-04T19:41:23.702-07:002019-07-04T19:41:23.702-07:00tw, all my Greek letters were in my physics classe...tw, all my Greek letters were in my physics classes, and long, long ago.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42442216854180771032019-07-04T16:51:35.216-07:002019-07-04T16:51:35.216-07:00They ALL know what’s best for you.They ALL know what’s best for you.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58294949766818808862019-07-04T10:36:07.284-07:002019-07-04T10:36:07.284-07:00There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet. U and ...There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet. U and y count as the same.trigger warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59835926337279184292019-07-04T09:28:02.996-07:002019-07-04T09:28:02.996-07:00I must congratulate NIKE for impelling Betsy Ross&...I must congratulate NIKE for impelling Betsy Ross' masterpiece back into the light, lest we forget. Won't buy their shoes, though, nor anything else that they make.<br /><br />"They are suffering from the pride that the Greeks called hybris." I've always see it spelled "hubris".Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24357882092093466642019-07-04T08:59:39.104-07:002019-07-04T08:59:39.104-07:00"I think that they are posers, pseudo-intelle..."I think that they are posers, pseudo-intellectuals who have conquered the world of business and who now think that they are philosophers."<br /><br />And I think you are right. So did Tom Wolfe...<br /><br />"From the very outset the eminence of this new creature, the<br />intellectual, who was to play such a tremendous role in the history of the<br />twentieth century, was inseparable from his necessary indignation. It was<br />his indignation that elevated him to a plateau of moral superiority. Once<br />up there, he was in a position to look down at the rest of humanity. And<br />it hadn’t cost him any effort, intellectual or otherwise. As Marshall<br />McLuhan would put it years later: 'Moral indignation is a technique used<br />to endow the idiot with dignity.' Precisely which intellectuals of the<br />twentieth century were or were not idiots is a debatable point, but it is<br />hard to argue with the definition I once heard a French diplomat offer at<br />a dinner party: 'An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field<br />who speaks out only in others.'"<br />--- "In the Land of the Rococo Marxists"trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57736111177405255602019-07-04T08:21:28.625-07:002019-07-04T08:21:28.625-07:00Colin Kaepernick should be the poster boy for NPCs...Colin Kaepernick should be the poster boy for NPCs. I have looked at numerous pictures of CP, and what struck me was utter lack of any expression or human emotion in.any of them. He was a total blank slate<br /><br />One line of attack on CP was that he was a washed up NFL QB. Not so. He was an incredibly gifted athlete who led.his team to within a whisker of a Super Bowl win. But then he experienced his first setback and fell apart.<br /><br />The key is that he was gifted at every sport he ever tried -- as good in baseball as he was in football. Which means he was always the center of attention and adulation. He could never do wrong, a situation that was compounded by the fact that he was bi-racial and a minority playing QB<br /><br />All of this would have conspired to turn him into a flaming narcissist who never had to think thru anything off the field AND who never developed any coping skillsCallmelenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04098020164660732777noreply@blogger.com