On discovering that many youngsters on Twitter were tweeting their amazement on discovering that the Titanic was not fictional, but an actual ship that sunk, I quizzed my 13 year old niece about it.
What's Titanic?
A movie coming out for the 100th anniversary, opening in April, starring Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslett.
What's the story about?
They're on this big ship and they fall in love. He's poor and she's rich. And the ship sinks and he dies because he's poor and they save the rich people.
And is it a made-up story or did it really happen?
No, it really happened. Except for the part about Leonardo and Kate. That's made up. That's kinda like Romeo and Juliet.
I was pleased that the gene pool is still holding.
But she did buy the simplistic class narrative. (A future Democrat voter.) In fact, gender was far more determinative of survival than class. Men died far more often, women were saved.
What's Titanic?
A movie coming out for the 100th anniversary, opening in April, starring Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslett.
What's the story about?
They're on this big ship and they fall in love. He's poor and she's rich. And the ship sinks and he dies because he's poor and they save the rich people.
And is it a made-up story or did it really happen?
No, it really happened. Except for the part about Leonardo and Kate. That's made up. That's kinda like Romeo and Juliet.
I was pleased that the gene pool is still holding.
But she did buy the simplistic class narrative. (A future Democrat voter.) In fact, gender was far more determinative of survival than class. Men died far more often, women were saved.
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But "gender" seems to be collapsing into "class" so that "women" as at factcheckme, who can't tolerate trans-women, are only a certain set of interpretive workers, neither generators nor up-raisers of the generated. ...
Accordingly, Hilary Rosen can fault Ann Romney for never having "worked a day in her life" which apparently means according to her examples of "work" that she didn't have to 'deal with' whether there's be enough food for her children, or whether the public schools superintended by Democrats and Democrats' teachers unions and Democrats' curriculum writers and Democrats' public school supervision systems) will be safe and minimally competent for her children.
Well, perhaps, but Ms Rosen thus implies that Democrat policies are determined only by mothers who are destitute and near-destitute or by women who intend to have children in destitute or near-destitute conditions. How many Democratic strategists are near-destitute mothers? Does Ms Rosen intend to have children in near-destitute conditions, so that she is entitled to have an authoritative opinion on public policy?
Meanwhile Mitt Romney apparently some time ago contrasted motherhood and work. Which renders the Republican platform dead in the water. Time has long gone for any conservative even within the confines of ecclesiastical communities, and thus not as a matter of public political discussion, to effectively exhort women only to have children when securely marry'd and with some reasonable expectation of cohabitation and assistance of the children's father. The karmic blame here is really the dereliction of men. They'd rather do desublimation than work. Which is reasonable, since the greatest culture articulators have pervaded that civilization is only meaningless, dishonest repression: every man should 'live' as Dmitry Karamazov lives, helter-skeltering between "sodom" and recuperative 'madonna.' (That scary Beatles song meant a lot to Charles son of Man, didn't it?) ... Government social programmes are steady providers. A girl shouldn't have to put together having a baby plus exertion for a high-pressure Murphy Brown Katie Roiphe career. No doubt when daughters nowadays hesitate to have children via social programmes mothers admonish them, "Don't be too picky." There are disadvantages to government programmes, but they don't require cohabitation with the guys of Fishtown à la Charles Murray -- socialized by desublimation (porno, video-games, slacking). ... In a private way a guy could come up with a Christian work ethic meaning for his labours in a beta- or even omega- job that earn him no respect from culture or even from women. ... But our culture puts great invention and device into video games. And repression à la Calvin isn't libidinous thanatos as exciting as 'repressive desublimation' à la porno. ... So except for government programmes, we're on our own. Fortunately marcuse has proved that technological productivity guarantees that an abundance of food clothing shelter etc plus luxuries will always arrive even for slackers. What's not to like? ...
... But since valuation not work or toil in the unpickwickian sense is the concern, the most important things anyone does are valuations, e.g., one's in-take and evaluation revaluation percolation of 'culture war' internet websites on gender race class also this or that ruinous commission or omission by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, V2 or traditionalist Catholics, secularists, evangelicals etc.
Agreeing or-and disagreeing at whatever levels of indignation with Ex Cathedra or Amanda Marcotte or HuffPost regulars or Mark Steyn is more important in the world than one's efforts as a delivery guy, corporation lawyer, marketing account manager, teacher, RC priest, etc.
... But since valuation not work or toil in the unpickwickian sense is the concern, the most important things anyone does are valuations, e.g., one's in-take and evaluation revaluation percolation of 'culture war' internet websites on gender race class also this or that ruinous commission or omission by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, V2 or traditionalist Catholics, secularists, evangelicals etc.
Agreeing or-and disagreeing at whatever levels of indignation with Ex Cathedra or Amanda Marcotte or HuffPost regulars or Mark Steyn is more important in the world than one's efforts as a delivery guy, corporation lawyer, marketing account manager, teacher, RC priest, etc.
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