Rule # 1 to remember if you want to follow the war between Simps and myself is that Simps is incapable of understanding anything more nuanced than the simplest black-white, heads-tails, moderately complicated - "but that's haaaarrrrrrd!" relationships. That last one, by the way, accounts for why he has never gotten the point of anything I've written. My discussion with the politician in question (who is one of my oldest and closest friends) wasn't merely about "television" it was more nuanced than that and more complex than that.
Rule #2 to remember is that for about the past six or more years there are about three adults who go to Eschaton and they only go there to slum. The rest of them think like 12-year-olds. And I don't mean mature 12-year-olds, more like Mike Teavee. If you want an example, read a week of Duncan's posts. Go ahead, read them. It's a sure bet most of his devoted regulars haven't. That's too haaaarrrrrrd! As to them reading what I said, they could just not bear to look.
Update: Two Comments
"American democracy has been killed by TV, by Hollywood"
Absolutely. Trump got elected because of MURPHY BROWN and Spike Lee's BLACKkKLANSMAN.
Absolutely. Trump got elected because of MURPHY BROWN and Spike Lee's BLACKkKLANSMAN.
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Murphy Brown, you mean the original? Or do you mean the re-boot? I have to ask because, as you have demonstrated so often that you don't really get how time works, that some things come before others and that the things that come after didn't cause the things that came before, I have to point out that both the M.B. reboot and Blackklanssman CAME AFTER TRUMP WAS MADE PRESIDENT.
Geeessshh! Simps, you are so stupid.
steve simelsOctober 11, 2018 at 7:50 PM" I have to point out that both the M.B. reboot and Blackklanssman CAME AFTER TRUMP WAS MADE PRESIDENT."
Which changes your idiotic point exactly how?
The Thought CriminalOctober 11, 2018 at 7:59 PMWhen I invited you to prove my point that you are a total idiot the other day, I didn't expect you to do it so floridly.
"American democracy has been killed by TV, by Hollywood"
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Trump got elected because of MURPHY BROWN and Spike Lee's BLACKkKLANSMAN.
Murphy Brown, you mean the original? Or do you mean the re-boot? I have to ask because, as you have demonstrated so often that you don't really get how time works, that some things come before others and that the things that come after didn't cause the things that came before, I have to point out that both the M.B. reboot and Blackklanssman CAME AFTER TRUMP WAS MADE PRESIDENT.
DeleteGeeessshh! Simps, you are so stupid.
"My discussion with the politician in question (who is one of my oldest and closest friends) wasn't merely about "television" it was more nuanced than that and more complex than that."
ReplyDeleteThen learn how to fucking write. Which you'll never be able to do, because you're a fucking idiot.
The problem isn't that I can't write, the problem is that you can't read. What I said about which you clipped and misrepresented came in this paragraph which came after several others:
DeleteThis is exactly the thing that has gotten what I write the most mockery because it goes against the common received wisdom of the nice, polite, college credentialed, liberalish American of the post-war period, something about which no amount of obvious evidence in "life experience" seems to be able to shatter, not even the most obvious manifestation of Orwellian nightmare manifesting itself right before our very eyes and in that all too real life experience. The very same politician whose campaign I'm working on, when I had a discussion of this in depth, looked at me and said, "I don't care, I like to watch fiction" which is the most discouraging sentence anyone has said to me all year.
The relevant passage that proves you misrepresented it was "I had a discussion of this in depth" which would obviously have been more depth than the centimeter of depth which is already deeper than you can manage without drowning.
You don't read, you don't think, you skim and you repeat bromides and slogans. You are a lefty version of Babbitt. And I don't mean Milton. If ol' Sinclair Lewis were here now, he'd have had to write up the kind of folks who comprise the rump Eschaton crowd because that's a book that needs to be written.
This is exactly the thing that has gotten what I write the most mockery because it goes against the common received wisdom of the nice, polite, college credentialed, liberalish American of the post-war period, something about which no amount of obvious evidence in "life experience" seems to be able to shatter, not even the most obvious manifestation of Orwellian nightmare manifesting itself right before our very eyes and in that all too real life experience. The very same politician whose campaign I'm working on, when I had a discussion of this in depth, looked at me and said, "I don't care, I like to watch fiction" which is the most discouraging sentence anyone has said to me all year.
DeleteDude, that paragraph proves you have no writing skills whatsoever. That is such a pile of gibberish that I have no fucking idea what you are trying to say. You really need to go back to school and learn the English language.
Just what do you analyze as being wrong with it, "Zod"? Give me the benefit of your erudition as to what I did that was wrong.
Delete" I have to point out that both the M.B. reboot and Blackklanssman CAME AFTER TRUMP WAS MADE PRESIDENT."
ReplyDeleteWhich changes your idiotic point exactly how?
When I invited you to prove my point that you are a total idiot the other day, I didn't expect you to do it so floridly.
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