Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Pauly Shore.
Much discussion of this in my classes over the last several years. Many of the young youngs are convinced that hitting the like button is akin to storming the gates....it's oddly fascinating.
ReplyDeleteSounds more like a suitably sanitised 'polite' description of the policies of the current British Government.
ReplyDeleteThere's a British Government? Who knew?
DeleteI suppose you can make the argument that it's better than nothing, and has an incremental effect in "getting things done", but that's exactly the sort of thing a slacktivist would say. At its worst, it's an active disincentive to getting out of the house and meeting people and talking and organising. Why bother when you can win valuable internet points by posting a hard-hitting meme?
ReplyDeleteif that...a colleague polled several of her various American politics classes and they overwhelmingly agreed that hitting a like button was activism....a chunk thought it was resistance.
ReplyDeleteThis is possibly the most depressing and damning indictment of The Youngs that I've read anywhere. "Liking" something is activism? Resistance?
DeleteAmerica is over. Stick a fork in it, it's done. And all The Youngs who still like to blame "Boomers" for all their woes would better spend their time thinking how they're going to answer to future generations for letting fascist thugs destroy everything good about America.