Recent content by sringwal

Some of you will be waking up and checking the internet in a few hours, and see this thread. Like wmheel, you may be asking yourself, “is this shit for real?” Yes. Yes it is.

No shit. My point is that it isn't the anti-semitism that the far right doesn't like about Muslims. It is, instead, something they share. It is, instead, two groups of fundamentalists jockying for power. And far fewer American Muslims are fundamentalists than right-wing Christians are.

Fair. But kids are hooked up to 24/7 propaganda machines sending them a variety of deeply disturbing images. Right now. What will it be like a decade from now, when this generation become the teachers of the future? And in 20-30 years, when they are dictating policy?

I'm not as concerned about indoctrination in schools. Teachers can't get students to focus enough for that. Social media is educating our youth, and anything from the 1950s pails in comparison. Post-covid, students simply stopped trying. The vast majority of this years high school seniors...

I'm not sure that anyone who isn't a middle/high public school teacher can really understand how quickly things are unraveling. The IB programme is all I really believe in now, and I fear that it will soon be viewed as indoctrination, and banned in the states.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face.

To be clear - I think things are much worse. AI and the death of print media, along with the devaluation of libraries make double think and the death of the field of history as we know it. Governments and corporations now have tools at their disposal that make Big Brother feel tame by...

That's true of all forms of language.

Yes. All of this. But more than anything else, that last paragraph is where I am at as well. And it is why I believe that super is making a valid argument, but about 10 years too late.

That's symbolism in a nutshell. And the myriad ways that a symbol can be interpreted is what makes symbolism beautiful.

You are talking about propaganda, though, at least in part. You keep coming back to pepe the frog. That's a propaganda meme. And to repeat my prior point: how are memes different than any form of cultural symbolism/allusions? Cultural symbols often have myriad meanings - and different...