Novelty theory is an idea conceived and promoted by Terence McKenna, a psychedelic explorer and visionary, who claimed that the universe is not a random and chaotic place, but rather a structured and creative process that generates increasing levels of complexity and novelty over time.
Only a fucking boomer could come up with such tripe.
As I've said in the past, the problem with the schools comes down to recognizing that the American secondary education system as it is currently structured is frozen in a compromised state that only made sense between the 1940's and 1950's.
To explain this, I need to give you some terminology.
Primary Education - Is defined as what Americans would call grades 1-8. A person who completes primary education should be capable of reading in their native language and performing arithmetic and trigonometric math.
Secondary Education - In most of the world secondary education is bifurcated into two separate systems. Vocational education, and college preparatory education. These are different outcome objectives, with very different needs. To be effective, vocational education needs to be producing the workers the job market needs.
College prep education focuses on two major things: advanced math, and learning the lingua franca (today english, previously french, historically latin). Americans being english speakers, this means that college prep in the US is mostly about math, and sure as hell shouldn't take 4 years.
In the aftermath of WW2, the US was riding high. Economic prosperity was everywhere, and it was possible for most school districts in the country to combine vocational and preparatory education in the same schools.
I want to emphasize: This is not normal. Aside from Canada (which is basically just America in this regard), no other first world nation does this. College prep and vocational secondary education are different programs, and pretty much every European and Asian country forces people to decide, at a younger age, what path they want to try for.
But for a brief while after the war, the US was able to pretend that its high schools could offer vocational education. Then the baby boom hit and this illusion went to shit. In the face of surging enrollment numbers, schools had to drop hiring in favor of emergency facilities expansions, which would stress budgets for decades. Across the country, voc-ed took the worst hits, staying basically frozen in a 1950's state of affairs until the late 80's when Apple Computer came along.
To pick up the slack, community colleges emerged and quickly grew in the '70s and '80s, providing the actual voc ed programs that the high schools neglected.
What should have happened at this point is that the community colleges should have become alternative options for secondary education. That is, you could attend a CC as if it was a vocational high school.
Obviously, this didn't happen. And so the the US secondary school system rotted into its current state where everyone is given a college prep education that takes entirely too long.
It's discussions like this where we have to bring back the old ideas of the id and the ego, or lizard-brain as it seems to be called now.
Everything you're talking about is happening at the ego level. That's irrelevant. The ego level is an unreliable narrator that will perform whatever gymnastics are necessary to restore what Clarey calls "perfect mental state".
When we talk about wants, we're really talking about the id level.
Now A, that's just being quippy without being constructive.
I think his train is "stuck" somewhere and I'm trying to unjam it.
My hope is that he says he's a believer, because if he is, there's essentially two paths to resolve his thinking. If he wants to be Christian, he needs to learn forgiveness. But if he can't forgive, then the path forward is to accept the next revelation, and it could be said that god is punishing him for not listening to the Prophet.
Okay, I need a clear answer to one question:
Do you, or do you not, believe in god?
Because if you do I can conceptualize that the world as you see it is a catch 22, it's all god's fault, and you are compelled to play by god's rules because the only thing YOU'RE judged for is your own actions.
But, if you do believe in god, and you believe everything you've said over the years, then I'm very curious why you haven't accepted Muhammed as the messenger of God's final revelation.
Here's the thing TI...
Everything you say, undermines your credibility and agency. Your framing is so extreme, that your actions are incongruent with your words.
There are logical conclusions to your thinking, all of which are quite grimdark and quite violent, but they are conclusions.
But you don't go there. So I'm left with only one of two conclusions:
A. You don't actually believe the things you say, you're just a troll trying to provoke others into reaching the mental conclusions you want them to, for your own amusement, or...
B. You know where your thinking leads, but you're just a coward.
Entity-Component-System
"Composition over inheritance (or composite reuse principle) in object-oriented programming (OOP) is the principle that classes should achieve polymorphic behavior and code reuse by their composition (by containing instances of other classes that implement the desired functionality) rather than inheritance from a base or parent class."
Jesus flying spaghettimonster.
This is Magic: The Gathering as a software design philosophy.
In the United States our problem is different.
It was a mistake for the US to leave Britain. Our style of government needs a politically impotent sovereign to keep the government conscious of its station.
If the US hadn't revolted, Parliament would be held in New York City now.
If the A's are moving to Vegas that would put a major and a Triple-A in the same city (the Aviators; who are affiliated with the A's). That's an arrangement that generally doesn't last, especially in a market as small as Vegas .
I'd love to see the Aviators move east. There's a couple underserved markets that could take them.
transgenderism is somewhat devaluing women
No it doesn't. Men saying "I'm a woman now" doesn't devalue women, it just affirms that actual women have some value. I think you're so desperate to make BttK! a thing that its blinded you to reality.
There is no world, none, where you get the win you want, where feminism surrenders and begs to go back to the way things had been since forever. Won't happen.
But we absolutely can get a world where feminism goes right wing and let conservatism take out the social trash. They've literally done it before, in Germany.
NCAA WBB is fine. The tournament pulls better viewership numbers than the NIT does.
At a lot of universities, WBB admission is free for students as a way to fill seats, which works pretty well.