umbrarchist

JOBS!!?!!???? According to ChatGPT 650 million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. There were 200,000,000 Automobiles in the United States in 1995. Years ago I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. No electrics at the time. He couldn't even start explaining. But he drove a white SUV. The schools produce brainwashed workers and television creates brainwashed consumers. It is a Treadmill. Meanwhile paying palefaces to live on the planet. Oh, and how many White people do not own a single square inch? How about mandatory accounting for all Black kids? JOBS!!?!!???? According to ChatGPT 650 million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. There were 200,000,000 Automobiles in the United States in 1995. Years ago I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. No electrics at the time. He couldn't even start explaining. But he drove a white SUV. The schools produce brainwashed workers and television creates brainwashed consumers. It is a Treadmill. Meanwhile paying palefaces to live on the planet. Oh, and how many White people do not own a single square inch? How about mandatory accounting for all Black kids?

Education is the acquisition of relevant knowledge. I had to spell ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM in 7th grade. We compared Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story in 11th grade. How relevant is that? How about a K-12 National Recommended Reading List? 100 books for kindergarten 200 books for 1st grade 300 books for 2nd grade etc. That would be 9100 for K-12. I tell people that I read a lot of science fiction from 4th grade on. Most people do not take SF seriously. Star Wars ain't Science Fiction. Star Trek is feeble science fiction. A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke Clarke used Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain the infrared perception of reality. To me a lot of White people who regard themselves as educated talk as though all reading is good and pretty much the same. I don't agree. Most books are mediocre to crap Wild Seed by Octavia Butler is fantasy not science fiction and not in the same category as Clarke's Moondust. Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez https://www.unfinishedman.com/daemon-freedom-daniel-suarez-future-dark-automated/ Are up to date with the current techno-zeitgeist. A cyber-thriller with a murder in the first 3 pages but the culprit is already dead. The police and FBI are not amused. No sense of humor those guys.

Asshole of the Year! Will the MAGA Morons be able to handle the stench for Four Years? .

Abracadabra! https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680

Asshole of the Year! Will the MAGA Morons be able to handle the stench for Four Years? .

Even fictional stories have characters more complicated than Heroes and Villains. It was a crime but I won't shed a tear for the victim. The perp was a dummy for not wearing a mask all of the time. In the Age of COVID it is not that unusual.

By overshoot I mean a population collapse. I do not think that there is a significant chance of extinction. But a drop from 8 Billion to less than 1 Billion would be pretty traumatic and how scattered would the people be.

I only started hearing about micro plastic in my body a few years ago but I was thinking about planned obsolescence before 1980. I can only wonder how bad the environment will get before "normal" people react. I assume that we are passed overshoot already.

It is standard operating procedure in science fiction. History is taught almost as though things had to happen that way. But so much was just random. What if a hurricane had sunk the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria? 😆 I look at history as a record of who had technology versus who didn't. The Haoles had the technology but most of them are dummies. And the ones who invent the tech are not in control. Planned Obsolescence is a global problem now but most people don't see that.

Pearl Harbor was Commodore Perry's fault. If they had just let the Japanese keep their feudal culture they would not have made the planes to bomb Pearl Harbor. The US would not have entered WWII and the Germans would have taken over Europe.

Life as a contrarian is so aggravating. 😆 His point about peer pressure in 4th grade is interesting then he starts talking about Competition. I was bored out of my skull in 3rd grade and then discovered science fiction in 4th grade. But the nuns NeVeR taught science. I was learning things that the nuns were not teaching and so there was nothing relevant to compete about at school. I think letting White people define education is part of the problem. They cannot make accounting mandatory in high school and then economists fail to discuss the Depreciation of Automobiles for 70 years. The system is designed to screw White people. The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood

No problemo! I just find it rather shocking that school seems to be worse than it was when I was there and none of this Science Fiction Technology.

Probably 30 years ago. Now we just need it to launch Elon Musk. May he Live Long & Suffer On Mars

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/6 Vus417

Were you aware of Mack Reynolds and just didn't know about the North Africa Trilogy? Black Man's Burden was published in 1961 when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Then 50 years later in 2011 NATO helps overthrow Gaddafi while a Black man is in the White House. What did Obama think was going on. Was the 10 years after Gaddafi better for Libya than the 10 years before? 382 vus

Of course this is verboten because it was written by a White guy. http://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639

That's my point. There are dozens. What do you expect 10 year olds to do? How many are designed to sell books?

Vague advice is not very useful. 6 comes closest. No comment about science and technology. Sounds like a Liberal Arts perspective. I don't know about any books my parents read. My mother called my books "Something Crazy". I read Souls of Black Folks in high school because I encountered so much mention of it. After I finished it I thought "Why do I keep hearing about this antiquated drivel?" It is from 1903. Before the Ford Model-T in 1908. Before WWI 1914 to 1918. I never heard of Hubert Henry Harrison until his book turned up in Project Gutenberg that I check a couple of times per month. There should be a Starter List.

I just watched the entire video again. I do not so much think in terms of valuable as I do in terms of INTERESTING. I presume that people can think for ThemSelves and make Their Own value judgements. His analysis of Hispanic voting was interesting and was his talk about a Constitutional Crisis coming up. I watched a video of Trump having trouble walking to his garbage truck. ChatGPT says that a 78 year old man has a 22% chance of dying in the next 4 years. We are currently enjoying the Trump Clown Cabinet Charade. So what is your problem with the video. Or did you watch it?

I have now found 3 different threads using his name. It might be a phony. It is more difficult to do a historical search than expected. I still haven't seen him post about any specific book on the thread that I am sure is his. 127vus

A nice thing about Trump being elected is that it dramatically and irrefutably demonstrates how stupid a lot of White people are. Now we have to try to survive the bullshit. .

Well I have never seen economics presented with that kind of emphasis on Demand Side Depreciation either. It is kind of original. .

So, no responses in a week. Was it too long and boring? Did I put y'all to sleep? .

Yeah Read! Read, read, read! Read what? And WHY? Levar Burton turned up on BlueSky yesterday. One of his posts said, "Fucking Read" He didn't name a single book. The first link is a review of the first two books of The North Africa Trilogy. Those two books have been free in Project Gutenberg for more than a decade. The next two links are to the e-books in PG. The third book did not come out until the 1970s and may not even be in the public domain yet. http://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed nor Birth (1963) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 The thing about science fiction is that it is future oriented. Too much reading is focused on the past. But I think the lesson of the past is who had technology versus who didn't and the people without the technology lost. So what does that say about the future? A curious thing is that 1961 is when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 50 years later, 2011, is when Gaddafi was overthrown and killed. CIA involvement in the first and NATO involvement in the second. But Obama was in the White House in 2011 and Hillary Caesar crowing "We came. We saw. He Died!" <maniacal laugh> So the North Africa Trilogy has an interesting retro-future backdrop. . 95vus