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Bar wrote:Just as I thought, you were fibbing. I didn’t see you in Bannon home made documentary. You are very thin skinned for someone quick to call everyone an idiot. Wildly insecure. He was your editor? Bahahaha. You cross posted free articles on Breitbart. You over exaggerate your abilities because wanting to be accepted is so important to you. You’ve sold a few books... probably to relatives. Textbook narcissist. Yeah, I’m sure Trump reads your unproven theories and conclusions, which aren’t based on any peer reviewed or scientific approach. Or, even proven sociological theories.

Anyhow, I don’t want to keep you from your very important efforts of writing in your basement.
Thank you, Ivan. Or is it Igor? Or perhaps Fu Manchu? Enjoy the day at the troll factory.

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Snowflakes like you are causing the vitriolic atmosphere today, because you have no morals and no ethics.
That's what's happened since Gen-Xers have taken charge.
Michael Bloomberg Slams Campus SJWs And The Radical Intolerance Of Disagreement

The essence of American democracy is that people who disagree, however profoundly, can set forth their views, let the democratic system under the Constitution settle matters for the moment, accept the outcome until the next election, and continue to engage with one another productively in the ordinary course of their lives. To put it simply, healthy democracy is about living with disagreement, not eliminating it.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the retreat from liberal political discourse can be found on the training grounds for tomorrow’s leaders: college campuses.

This sad reality was laid bare in a pair of columns published last week in Bloomberg Opinion by Steven Gerrard, a professor of philosophy at Williams College. Gerrard quotes a letter from students outlining their views on the subject: “‘Free Speech,’ as a term, has been co-opted by right-wing and liberal parties as a discursive cover for racism, xenophobia, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and classism.”

Unfortunately, it isn’t just students who see free speech as pernicious.

At a Williams faculty meeting about free speech, a professor stated that, “to ask for evidence of violent practices is itself a violent practice.” This view suggests universities must suppress the very act of reasoning. Incredibly, many seem willing to try.

In 2015, the Committee on Freedom of Expression at the University of Chicago published a statement affirming the centrality of free speech. It said that "the University’s fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed."

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** 15-Sep-2019 World View: Young people's ignorance

> Snowflakes like you are causing the vitriolic atmosphere today,
> because you have no morals and no ethics. That's what's happened
> since Gen-Xers have taken charge.
Guest wrote: > Michael Bloomberg Slams Campus SJWs And The Radical Intolerance
> Of Disagreement


> The essence of American democracy is that people who disagree,
> however profoundly, can set forth their views, let the democratic
> system under the Constitution settle matters for the moment,
> accept the outcome until the next election, and continue to engage
> with one another productively in the ordinary course of their
> lives. To put it simply, healthy democracy is about living with
> disagreement, not eliminating it.

> One of the most disturbing aspects of the retreat from liberal
> political discourse can be found on the training grounds for
> tomorrow’s leaders: college campuses.

> This sad reality was laid bare in a pair of columns published last
> week in Bloomberg Opinion by Steven Gerrard, a professor of
> philosophy at Williams College. Gerrard quotes a letter from
> students outlining their views on the subject: “‘Free Speech,’ as
> a term, has been co-opted by right-wing and liberal parties as a
> discursive cover for racism, xenophobia, sexism, anti-Semitism,
> homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and classism.”

> Unfortunately, it isn’t just students who see free speech as
> pernicious.

> At a Williams faculty meeting about free speech, a professor
> stated that, “to ask for evidence of violent practices is itself a
> violent practice.” This view suggests universities must suppress
> the very act of reasoning. Incredibly, many seem willing to try.

> In 2015, the Committee on Freedom of Expression at the University
> of Chicago published a statement affirming the centrality of free
> speech. It said that "the University’s fundamental commitment is
> to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed
> because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most
> members of the University community to be offensive, unwise,
> immoral, or wrong-headed."


> https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... discomfort

I don't even know what other words to use besides "stupid and
ignorant" to describe young people today. I've spoken to college
professors who are appalled at the stupidity of their students, and
the fact that you can't even express a non-PC opinion without getting
punished -- either by the professor or the other students.

I got the first inkling of this in 2003. Here's an anecdote about
2003 that I posted in 2006:
"I was recently talking to a college student, and I
asked him to tell me what he thought about the violence in Sri
Lanka. I got a blank look. Then I said, "OK, tell me absolutely
anything you know about any international story of any kind
whatsoever, in any country in the world." Nothing. "But surely
you know something about what's going on in Iraq?" "Well," he
said, "I read a little bit about it a year ago, but forgot about
it."

Later, I spoke to my son, who's a college student at Georgia Tech.
He knows a fair amount about international events because ever
since 9/11 he's often had to listen to me rant and rave about
international events and generational issues. I asked him if he
ever talks about news events with other students at school. He
said that the subject never comes up. I asked him, "Have you ever
heard any of the other students talk about any news events, even
if you didn't participate in the conversation, even if they were
just talking about it in the distance." He said he'd never heard
a single conversation of that type. "Everyone is an engineering
student. Maybe if they were history students then they would."

This is very strange, of course, to someone like me who went to
MIT in the 1960s in the People's Republic of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where almost every discussion was about politics,
and half the students carried around their copies of "Chairman
Mao's Little Red Book of Quotations
" in their back
pockets."
It's just amazing to me how stupid young people are today, especially
in the media. George Tech is an engineering school, so the kids going
there excuse their total ignorance because they major in engineering.
But when I went to MIT, even the engineering students knew what was
going on in the world. Today, the media people know nothing about
journalism or anything else in the world, but apparently have majored
in women's studies or sociology, which teaches them nothing. That's
why there's so much incredibly stupid stuff in the media. Things have
gotten much, much worse since I had that conversation with my son in
2003.

I've posted the following before, but it's worth posting again. I've
frequently joked that many young people are too stupid to pick out
China on a map. But it's not a joke. Take a look at this video,
where people cannot pick even ONE country on a world map, even
the United States:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh1zXFKC_o
  • Jimmy Kimmel - Can you name a country?
Here are some of the comments that appear with the video:
  • How do you call someone smart in the US? Answer: Tourist
  • This was very painful to watch until that little boy came and
    saved my last two brain cells from bursting out.
  • But... How do American people dont know a SINGLE country? In
    Europe we have to learn like al the country's from Europe and the
    Capitals of them.
  • “Name a country.” “Africa.” “That’s a continent.”
  • How can someone not even find his own country on the map?
    Omg....
  • This actually just put a pit in my stomach. Anti-intellectualism
    is becoming the normal. One girl said, "Oh god, who knows stuff like
    that?"
I've seen manifestations of the last comment many times. Young people
are not only stupid, but they're contemptuous of knowledge, and they
glorify their own stupidity, and consider their stupidity to be
superior to actually knowing something.

Today, AOC is the poster child of young people, exhibiting an amount
of ignorance that is almost beyond belief. The only people stupider
than she is are the people who believe her, and that's apparently most
of the young people in the Democratic party. As I've said before, all
I can do is shake my head in astonishment, because this is how we're
going to be led into WW III.

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Guest wrote:
Bar wrote:Just as I thought, you were fibbing. I didn’t see you in Bannon home made documentary. You are very thin skinned for someone quick to call everyone an idiot. Wildly insecure. He was your editor? Bahahaha. You cross posted free articles on Breitbart. You over exaggerate your abilities because wanting to be accepted is so important to you. You’ve sold a few books... probably to relatives. Textbook narcissist. Yeah, I’m sure Trump reads your unproven theories and conclusions, which aren’t based on any peer reviewed or scientific approach. Or, even proven sociological theories.

Anyhow, I don’t want to keep you from your very important efforts of writing in your basement.
Thank you, Ivan. Or is it Igor? Or perhaps Fu Manchu? Enjoy the day at the troll factory.
Are you boomers this dumb? Only idiot boomers are stupid enough to say that any opinion expressed that does not follow globalist ideology means the person making that opinion must not be an American and must be from somewhere else. Believe it or not but many Americans hate globalism and there are also many of us consider seeing a genocide taking place as something that is not worth getting involved since it effects others. You globalists and human-rights white knights can only get their way by embracing tyranny. Because Normal people generally tend to be repulsed by globalists and globalistic ideology.

Also John if you are talking about current campus SJWs, then these are technically mostly Homelander Generation/Gen-Z since the cohorts currently occupying the college and high school systems were born from 1997 to 2005 and therefore have no living memory of life before 9/11. Your capable of acknowledging SJWs and SJW-types who voted Hillary because when you peel away the naive SJW ideology, underneath that is a budding globalist. Thus they are "mendable" to you. You can't do that with either the alt-right or the Gabbard/Bullock/Young Turks type-progressives.

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The parents of the young people didn't do their jobs.

Here at university, well above 90% of black and Asian students are Democrats. This doesn't surprise me at all; that's how their parents are, generally speaking.

But it surprised me that an equal proportion of white students were also Democrats - again, well over 90%. There basically aren't any Republicans here. How does this happen? It seems like most parents NEVER talk to their kids about politics until their kids are old enough to understand it well - around the age of 15. Unfortunately, at this point kids have already been led astray by education, the media, and Hollywood. Talking about politics just causes arguments, with the kids trying to prove their parents wrong. Eventually, neither the parents nor kids talk about politics anymore because they just end up arguing bitterly. Once that happens, it's over.

I know it's customary to blame others for the failures of your own generation - but our parents - the boomers and Gen Xers - deserve a lot of the blame.

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** 15-Sep-2019 Republicans on campus
mps92 wrote: > The parents of the young people didn't do their jobs.

> Here at university, well above 90% of black and Asian students are
> Democrats. This doesn't surprise me at all; that's how their
> parents are, generally speaking.

> But it surprised me that an equal proportion of white students
> were also Democrats - again, well over 90%. There basically aren't
> any Republicans here. How does this happen? It seems like most
> parents NEVER talk to their kids about politics until their kids
> are old enough to understand it well - around the age of
> 15. Unfortunately, at this point kids have already been led astray
> by education, the media, and Hollywood. Talking about politics
> just causes arguments, with the kids trying to prove their parents
> wrong. Eventually, neither the parents nor kids talk about
> politics anymore because they just end up arguing bitterly. Once
> that happens, it's over.

> I know it's customary to blame others for the failures of your own
> generation - but our parents - the boomers and Gen Xers - deserve
> a lot of the blame.
It's been well documented that Republicans and Trump supporters on
campus are afraid to identify themselves for fear of being attacked
verbally or even physically, or being screwed grades-wise. So when
you say, "There basically aren't any Republicans here," what you're
saying is that there aren't any students willing to admit that they're
Republicans.

See the following:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/poll-73-p ... ld-suffer/
" A survey of 1,000 Republican and Republican-leaning
college students has found that nearly three-quarters of them have
withheld their political views in class for fear their grades
would suffer.

The online poll was conducted in late August exclusively for The
College Fix by [1]College Pulse, an online survey and analytics
company focused on college students. Only students who
self-identify as Republican or Republican-leaning were polled. ...

In the comments section of the survey, where students have the
option to weigh in on the topic after they’ve answered, several
offered various anecdotes. Among them:
  • CU Boulder: “You should be inclusive of everyone’s views.”
    “Ok maybe abortion is bad?” “No not like that.”
  • Western Kentucky University: I wrote a 19 page research paper
    on a Christian pro-life movement. I was the only one in the class
    that, when presenting my paper, had a “surprise visitor” (who was
    the teacher’s very liberal friend) argue [with] me about their
    views. …
  • Notre Dame: I actually got yelled at by a professor for my
    views on gun control. It wasn’t an argument or anything, just
    plain one-sided insulting.
  • Clemson: When writing papers for gen ed classes? Absolutely. I
    know a guy who chose to write a pro-border wall argumentative
    essay for our super liberal professor and the prof just wrote
    “this whole paper is one big fallacy” and bombed him. Me? I wrote
    about the evils of horse racing. Perfectly safe topic.
  • UCSD: Not for fear of a bad grade. But fear of being a social
    outcast.
  • Penn State: “Well I actually have some different thoughts on
    that.” “Shut up you racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic piece
    of human garbage!”
  • UMass Amherst: Weird how being forced to hide my libertarian
    views in class for years just sorta drove me underground and now
    I’m a hyper-authoritarian. Funny how that works.
  • NC State: Why would I get myself killed to say I’m a
    libertarian in a philosophy class.
  • Auburn: I have had grades affected when I didn’t withhold my
    views.
  • University of Louisville: I am conservative. I would be
    crucified. I heard enough horror stories from friends and family
    to keep my mouth shut and avoid politics in class if at all
    possible.
  • Kansas State: Professor the day after the presidential
    election kicked two students wearing MAGA hats out of class. I was
    appalled. We’re all people, if someone disagrees with you — love
    them anyways.
  • Mizzou: I’m a conservative, but my essays are very
    liberal.
  • Arizona State: In my sociology class, my professor asked us if
    we would give our child hormone blockers if they believed they
    were transgender (that was the day’s lesson). One guy said he
    would rather teach his daughter to love her body the way it is
    than change it. She [sat] straight up said “so you would be a bad
    parent then? What was your name again?” Then she went to type
    something on her computer. Not a good day for him, I’m sure.
  • Oklahoma State: Suuuuper liberal government teacher who only
    showed Robert Reich documentaries. Wasn’t gonna speak my opinion
    around there.
  • Alabama: Took a honors English class freshman year and I
    didn’t know the topic of the class until it started…feminism and
    sexuality in pop culture. If I had shared any of my opinions with
    that psychotic uber-liberal communist professor I guarantee she
    would have failed me.
Some right-of-center activist groups on campuses across the nation
attempt to connect like-minded students for support, networking,
education and camaraderie outside the classroom. Among them:
(https://www.yaf.org/) Young America’s Foundation,
(https://www.tpusa.com/) Turning Point USA, (https://isi.org/)
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the
(https://enlightenedwomen.org/) Network of enlightened Women,
known as NeW."
This is all tied in with the AOC-level stupidity of college students
today, and why the can't even pick out a country on a map. Stupid
professors, stupid students.

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I'd like to join one of those groups, but I also need to get into med school, whose admissions boards are VERY liberal. Even if I don't put a conservative club membership on my CV, there would still be a risk that a med school finds out that I'm a conservative. Not worth it!

Many profs will be okay with you if you're a conservative and write good essays defending your position. But there are a few that won't tolerate it.

Not including this semester, I have 3 semesters left until I graduate. I'd love to pick up a minor in political science, and I probably have the space in my schedule to do it - but maybe I can't tolerate being surrounded by Marxists and globalists.

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** 15-Sep-2019 World View: Mideast tensions rise after attack on Saudi oil facilities

After the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, oil prices have
spiked by the biggest one-day percentage on record, as oil markets
open in Asia on Monday morning. There was an initial surge of about
18%, but they've leveled off to around 12% after the US and Saudi
Arabia said that it would release some stockpiled reserves. Donald
Trump issued this tweet:
"Based on the attack on Saudi Arabia, which may have
an impact on oil prices, I have authorized the release of oil from
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, if needed, in a to-be-determined
amount.... sufficient to keep the markets well-supplied. I have
also informed all appropriate agencies to expedite approvals of
the oil pipelines currently in the permitting process in Texas and
various other States. 5:55 PM · Sep 15, 2019"
The Saudis claim that they will partially repair the damage from the
attack within a day or two, but even if that turns out to be true,
it's still not known how long it will be before the Saudis are
operating at full capacity again.

Iran denies responsibity for the attack, but it's generally believed
that Iran is responsible, and this is the sixth attack on Saudi oil
facilities in the last four months.

Debka, which sometimes gets things wrong, reports that US intelligence
has determine that the attack vehicles were not drones launched from
Yement, but cruise missiles launched fro Iraq:
"US intelligence experts are studying satellite images
and other video evidence to track the source in Iraq of the major
attack on key Saudi oil facilities on Saturday, Sept. 14. Their
first discovery was that cruise missiles rather than drones struck
the Saudi oil refineries at Abqaiq, the largest in the world, and
its second largest oil field at Khurais – both in the kingdom’s
Eastern Provinces. They have also confirmed that the missiles were
launched from a pro-Iranian Iraqi Shiite militia base, despite
Baghdad’s denials."
Trump appears to be preparing a military response to the series
of Iranian attacks. He tweeted this:
"Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason
to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded
depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the
Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and
under what terms we would proceed! 6:50 PM · Sep 15,
2019"
Trump recently canceled an attack on Iran at the last minute,
but he may follow through this week.

Tensions are also rising for another reason. The sharp rise in
oil prices is going to hurt Asian economies, including China,
which receives half of its imported oil from Saudi Arabia.

Even if the gap in oil supplies is filled with stockpiles and
reserves, the concern is that Iran is going to continue attacking
Saudi oil targets.

---- Sources:

-- Brent crude oil jumps more than 11% after drone strikes disrupt
Saudi crude production
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/15/us-crud ... ction.html
(CNBC, 15-Sep-2019)

-- US intel suspects Iranian cruise missiles hit Saudi oil facilities
from Iraq base
https://www.debka.com/us-intel-suspects ... iraq-base/
(Debka, 15-Sep-2019)

-- Attack on Saudi oil field a game-changer in Gulf confrontation
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/15/middleea ... index.html
(CNN, 15-Sep-2019)

-- Iran denies role in attacks on Saudi oil facilities; Trump says
U.S. is ‘locked and loaded’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ir ... story.html
(Washington Post, 15-Sep-2019)

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John, just antidotal, but there is one segment of young people who do know geography: the less than 1% who are in the military. Many serve all over the planet. My troops when at the tactical level could list all the major geographical, cultural and political features of all the countries from Morocco to China. Planners of all ranks can recite explain cultural and historical profiles of all countries in their Area of Responsibility. We used to pass various publications to read while killing time on drop or pick zones, such as The Economist, WSJ, Foreign Policy with Maxim and FMH (the UK version). I remember one of my corporals who worked with me at a combat command with a southern drawl comment about a State Department political appointee about her lack of knowledge of history and world affairs even though she went to an ivy league school.

GVRon

China / Iran

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BenTallmadge:
‏"Has anyone noticed that Saudi’s Aramco got droned right after Nazi China signed this massive energy deal with Iran?"

https://twitter.com/BenKTallmadge/statu ... 4743924736


A Chinese investment pledge to the tune of a whopping $400 billion puts a wrench in American plans to isolate Iran - but what will it cost Iran?

https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/the-pr ... cold-29686

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