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The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
  • You didn't read the article, did you? It's not about reading tomes but books. Doesn't matter if it's an e-book or a really long slideshow on TikTok. These kids have never read the entirety of the text which is ordinarily contained in a single tome regardless of the format in which they didn't read it. If you don't understand why this is alarming, odds are you haven't either. And considering you didn't even read the article...

  • Simple as that
  • If you can't explain something in simple terms, that means you don't understand it yourself. Which is why you're being so needlessly aggressive and throwing accusations in the first place. It's because you have such a tenuous grasp on your own theoretical framework that you feel threatened by anyone displaying an opinion that seems to contradict it. You don't care about righting wrongs, about teaching or even about learning yourself. You only care about protecting your own fragile worldview.

    To remedy this, I suggest you open yourself more to diverging opinions - not really in order to change your mind on anything in particular, but because if you only reinforce your current beliefs you'll miss the forest for the trees. You can actually learn more about your own ideology by studying others and contrasting them.

    There, one simple paragraph explaining the problem in terms even a child could understand and another simple paragraph suggesting an actionable solution to that problem, all devoid of aggression and without fake quotations. This is how an adult deals with a misinformed opinion online. I hope this example serves you well in the future.

  • Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?
  • In the same vein, my friend frequently tells his fiancé to quit being a f*ggot when he doesn't want to eat something unusual or complains about mild annoyances. Which always draws hilariously confused looks from nearby straights who don't know them very well.

  • Simple as that
  • The people who make it a problem to wear the same dress twice are at fault. #NotAllWomen #NoMenAtAll

    The point is that when the phrase "male privilege" is used, it carries the implication that the patriarchy is responsible. But in this particular case, women have 100% of the power to make the problem go away and men have 0%. Calling it "male privilege" is counterproductive if you actually want to solve the problem rather than just complain about it.

  • How hard could it be?
  • That isn't the whole picture. I was born in 1988. The sampling of music from the 70's that I've been exposed to is completely different to the sampling of music from the same period that someone born in '58 was exposed to in their lifetime. They got to listen to a bunch of bad stuff (and probably some great stuff) that I don't even know exists.

  • What's the most severe example of a fake version of a book you've ever seen?
  • Yes, the book telling people to kill everyone who even slightly disagrees with any one of a thousand arbitrary and often absurd statements is totally unrelated to the severe and widespread violence endemic to a part of the world where said book is considered to be the word of God.

  • Decreasing

    Another generation using the text from the I Ching as a prompt. This time it was hexagram 41 - Decreasing, with old lines in the second and sixth positions.

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    Not Yet Fullfilled

    I made this image by prompting Flux-dev with the Image, Decision and Fifth Yao texts from the 64th hexagram (Wei Ji) in Alfred Huang's translation of the I Ching.

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