This pandemic has certainly exposed the fact that even as most of us were required to take a Biology class in high school, most people seem to be pretty clueless about even relatively simple facts about viruses and the hygiene that is needed to avoid infection. So much for the highly vaunted emphasis on the STEM subjects - though that was only ever really about the needs of business, not the needs of the common good. I long ago noted one of the results of that was, oddly, a deterioration in the reasoning of such human production bots. But that's for another time.
I wonder if, say, half of the effort that went into the great evolution wars had been spent on those areas of biology that are not controversial and which, unlike evolution, having wrong or even just foggy notions about can get us all killed, where we'd be now.
I'm not aware of having flaky ideas about the origin of species endangered anyone's life. Having flaky ideas about viral diseases and how to prevent them and the extreme difficulty of treating and containing them are is how we got here.
I'm not expecting that this will cause a revision of the science curricular in the schools or, even more so, the coverage of science in the mass and popular media, viruses aren't sexy click bait like the evolution wars have been. That topic isn't ideologically useful to fascist-fundies on one side and atheist-materialists who intersect with them at many more points than they would like anyone to point out.
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I've figured something out about the lefty media that I made a partial list of, yesterday, their primary motivation isn't to promote a lefty agenda or, certainly, not political victory, their primary motivation is to get the eyes and what passes as minds among the play-left to focus on their material and to support that particular venue of the play-left. It's a well known formula that the more you thrill the paranoia and anger of intellectually degenerated peopl with easy to construct and consume nonsense, the more they'll flock to you. The play-lefty media like all entertainment media is primarily about appealing to,if not the lowest common denominator, at least one low enough to keep it afloat and maybe grow it a bit. That such lefty-media is never attractive to enough of an audience to really get big doesn't mean you can't make it as the kind of small fry that serves a niche market. That such venues as In These Times and Majority Report can influence even small numbers of voters has catastrophic effects, at times.
Probably their greatest impact has been in discrediting the wider and left which has, up till now, rather foolishly defended and even championed that left on the basis of the right of even the most dishonest and repulsive to have a right to be heard. I think that's caused way more trouble for the real left than it's worth.
Seeing the same old figures of the play-left repeating their most destructive routines in 2020, it's time for the real left to get shut of them, stop supporting them, stop defending them and to disown them, publicly, repeatedly, definitively. If Democrats are in any position to control the Senate without his membership in their caucus, they should throw out Bernie Sanders. The Party should adopt a rule that says no one who has not been a declared member of the Democratic Party for a decade before the presidential election they want to run in is eligible to get the parties' nomination. That would have kept both Sanders and Michael Bloomberg out of the Democratic nominations race this year.
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