Thoughts on production, alienation, and ideology
After a month full of Silicon Valley and sci-fi, I moved on to a much wider variety of topics. On this month’s reading list, I’ve got everything from sci-fi to food politics to regular politics to TV shows.
Some thoughts to follow, and I hope everyone enjoys!
So, here’s one of the biggest challenges on the left that I’ve been thinking about lately. We start with the core of a good idea. The idea even works well in specific situations. But then we turn that idea into some kind of Iron Law, trying to apply it way beyond its limits. The result? It doesn’t work so well any longer! I think we see this problem a lot with appeals to the notion of ‘lived experience.’
What’s going on here? What’s wrong with the appeal to lived experience?
Most people will tell you not to check the baseball standings before Memorial Day. In my version of the advice, I call it the 50-Game Rule. The rule says that you don’t evaluate your team until they’ve played 50 games. That usually happens…right around Memorial Day.
OK, so I’m a bit late on this one. The Yankees have played closer to 60 games. They were 35-15 at the 50 game mark. They’re 39-15 right now as I’m writing this, and playing really solid ball. They’ve got a 7.5 game lead in the AL East standings. And, despite a number of injuries, their pitching staff is leading the way.
Will it be this way the entire season? Of course not. But I think I like my team’s chances right now.
Hi everyone! Once again it’s time for a blog anniversary post. This marks four years of the blog I started on June 1, 2018. It’s been fun!
Read on for a recap of the last year and some thoughts on next steps.
U.S. politics move through familiar cycles. Here’s one of them: A mass shooter kills lots of people, most (or all) of them children. Media attention and public outrage follow. Many in the GOP dismiss the incident, blaming mental health and framing Democrats as opponents of gun rights. Democrats use the incident to push their usual set of ‘gun control’ solutions to gun violence – background checks, assault weapon bans, and targeted limits on who can own guns (e.g., red flag laws).
The Uvalde shooting at Robb Elementary School, of course, serves merely as the most recent example of this cycle.
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