Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Its authors committed one of the faults they criticize most sharply, writes Joy Connolly.
It's just amazing to me how much that old political order has totally collapsed in my lifetime. Hal was invited to Ronald Reagan's inaugural ball in 1980! He was not a casual Republican. But he loathed W, and the Second Iraq War shattered whatever was left of his attachment to that party.
These goddamned birthdays are relentless
I argue that futurists must embrace absurdist and “preposterous” futures to match our current social and political moment. Seemingly ridiculous scenarios often prove more prescient than conventional forecasts. I, of course, reference my own One-Sentence Futures [https://davidjstaley.substack.com/]
Mint is growing wild in my yard and it’s gonna help me get rid of a bunch of bourbon this summer.
Yeah, I know The Terror already exists, but “horror movie from the perspective of the colonized” is not a vein that you could tap out quickly.
Reading this book about mountaineering, and so many expeditions relied on forcibly enlisted porters being forced to traverse mountains they rightly knew were fucking dangerous.
I’m just saying, you could write an amazing horror movie from their perspective.
Reading this book about mountaineering, and so many expeditions relied on forcibly enlisted porters being forced to traverse mountains they rightly knew were fucking dangerous.
I’m just saying, you could write an amazing horror movie from their perspective.
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All of my grandparents abandoned the Republican Party because of Bush II; my dad's dad was angry at him well before the Second Iraq War. They spent their last years voting Democrat after decades of being in the GOP. But if any of them could see this shit, I think they'd lose it.
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David J. Staley highlights his own work in continuing the conversation on Affective Foresight and absurdity in this guest blog.
