Supernatural fucktardery
One of the topics of conversation at the blogmeet was the transition in all literature towards sparkly vampire metrosexual wierdness; it’s taking over SF, it’s made it’s way into the former bodice-ripper genre, film is studded with it, and even commercials have crossed the line.
Tam even notes, yesterday, that the tivie is loaded with ghost hunting, paranormal supernatural horseshit. Even Discovery channel is loaded with it, as if it were some kind of hard science, “reality” shows loaded with Blair Witch scenes.
I have noticed that people who maintain a disconnect with reality often seek out the unknown for a good old fashioned scare.
Sorry, the known is plenty frightening enough for me. I don’t need people to make up shit for me to fear.
Amen.
No shit:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo17.1.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn42.1.html
That’s gonna leave a mark.
The crap on TV is directly related to the exceptionally low production cost associated with “reality” programing.
A lot of the women in my department are Twi-hards.
I’m going to wear this shirt to work and see what happens.
In Junior High I seriously liked the Creepy Magazine covers with Vampirella long before Elvira. My GiJoe would have done nasty things with her action figure. Dude, I seriously can’t believe they make action figures like that nowadays. Oops, there’s that “believe” word. I think it all hearkens back to repressed adolescent sexuality.
I told ya it don’t matter who votes but who counts the votes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NuLVvVb4oc
Hell, you don’t even have ACTUAL voters it seems. And this was with the old analog machines. Just think of the shenanigans one can pull with the new electronic machines.
Libsarenavelint, I’ll have to sleep with the light on after reading your two links. At least when you’re done watching The Shining, you know it was only a movie.
I see this as a luring away from the Truth.
The less you’re capable of critical thinking, the more you rely on heuristics. The less information you have at hand, the easier it is to accept reported outliers without looking for an explanation. In combination with these things, the more often you are exposed to something, the easier it is to believe there’s fire somewhere under that smoke.
We’re seeing the rise of magical ‘thinking’ again in society. People are not as firmly committed to rational thought and the scientific method as they were for a few decades, and it’s creeping over into silliness as well as moreserious economic and soical theory.
It’s said that people who don’t believe in God don’t start beleiving in in nothing, they start believing anything.
I don’t know that I agree with that, but it’s certainly true that most people don’t understand the scientific method, and increasingly don’t understand empiricism either, as we have grown so much further removed from the historic state of people engaging in concrete action and physical manipulation of their environment in order to create better conditions, into a passive role of accepting the incomprehensible (to them) largesse of society’s previous accomplishments that is made available to us by technology.
They have literally no mental tools at their discretion to discover truth.