Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Real or fake? Bizpac Review:
In an op-ed for The Hoya, the school newspaper, Georgetown University student Oliver Friedfeld wrote that he and his roommate deserved to be robbed at gunpoint because of their race.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?'” he wrote. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
Friedfeld said he didn’t think of the assailants as “bad people.”
“I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me,” he wrote. “In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay. The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”
According to this dimwit, the crime of being white should be punished by muggings and break-ins and America ought to get used to it.
“We should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins,” Friedfeld wrote. “I can hardly blame them.”
Yes kiddies, I can work the Google. Breitbart version is here, original is here.
Young people who willingly or unwillingly go down this road have been dealt a bad hand. While speaking with a D.C. police officer after the incident, he explained that he too had come from difficult circumstances, and yet had made the decision not to get involved in crime. This is a very fair point — we all make decisions. Yet I’ve never had to decide whether or not to steal from people. We’re all capable of good and bad, but it’s a whole lot easier for me to choose good than it may be for them to.
If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first. Simply amplifying police presence will not solve the issue. Police protect us by keeping those “bad people” out of our neighborhood, and I’m grateful for it. And yet, I realize it’s self-serving and doesn’t actually fix anything.
When we play along with a system that fuels this kind of desperation, we can’t be surprised when we’re touched by it. Maybe these two kids are caught, and this recent crime wave dies down, but it will return because the demand is still there, and the supply is still here. We have a lot, and plenty of opportunities to make even more. They have very little, and few opportunities to make ends meet.
The millennial generation is taking over the reins of the world, and thus we are presented with a wonderful opportunity to right some of the wrongs of the past. As young people, we need to devote real energy to solving what are collective challenges. Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them.
Kid self-identifies as a “millennial.” That is interesting, given the wonderful job he’s done of illustrating the stereotype. He’s droned on at length depicting his viewpoint of what we’ve done that has not fixed & will not fix the problem, lectured away about how we need to do something different. But he doesn’t say what that is.
Poor little snowflake. It’s sad seeing an entire generation slouch from crib to crypt with these proggie scales over their eyes; we’re almost finished with allowing it to happen to the Baby Boomers. As their huge and tightly concentrated generation wandered through our cultural timestream, like an antelope meandering down the alimentary canal of a python, we really didn’t get much out of it. Miniskirts and big hair, corny movies, Disco. Along with a huge spike in violent crime as our justice system acquiesced to their “enlightened youth” demands for leniency and “greater equality.” That’s the real story here. If Friedfeld represents a majority viewpoint, we’re letting it happen again. Hope not too many people get hurt.
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He’s …lectured away about how we need to do something different. But he doesn’t say what that is.
Government. By “we” he means “government.”
Even more than the Boomers, the Millennials simply cannot grok the difference between “the government” and “their Daddies.” Their attitude is exactly that of the teenager with a learner’s permit who begs to drive the family car — his parents are simultaneously the dumbest people who ever lived, and the omnipotent source of all desirable things. Since he has no idea how things like “the family car” come to be, he can’t understand why Daddy won’t simply hand him the keys.
Nor — and this is important — does he want to understand how things like “the family car” come to be. The teenage years are all about trying on identities, and Daddy is the standard by which all provisional identities are judged. If Daddy has a point — about anything — then Junior loses a fundamental psychological anchor. So Daddy must “do something,” even though anything Daddy does is by definition stupid and wrong.
- Severian | 12/01/2014 @ 07:55