the only chapter I'm really not enthusiastic about is "Unlearn Disinformation," as it looks to be twenty pages deboonking climate scepticism and lecturing us that 97% of scientists agree about agw and everybody has heard all of that a million times already.
And yet, that's the one I'd want to see reviewed. Because anything which discomfits scientists who have forgotten- or blocked out- their scientific integrity needs wider exposure.
Right? Imagine these same people full of pretended when they lose power, nobody is at gas stations, they have no way to heat their homes, and the grocery stores fail to have food magically appear. Lmao
I asked for this but based on your lack of desire skip it. They all look very amazing. I just love seeing the logical fallacies of disinformation dummies
the title is indeed enticing, but as i have the advantage of the actual book polluting my kitchen table, i can flip ahead and detect false advertising in this case.
Steve Koonin's "Unsettled" (2021), with an updated paperback out in 2024 is quite good. I don't know if that answers your query, but check it out. Cheers.
I used to enjoy browsing round book shops but it has become unbearable due to so many books, such as this one, forced down your throat as soon as you enter.
Same. I can't say that I always thought everything on display in every bookstore was fab, but in general I used to love going into bookstores, all sorts of bookstores, and especially in big cities. Since 2020 almost all bookstores just give me the creeps.
they've become really terrible, especially since everybody learned to order books online during the pandemic. now they all seem to be at least 60% novelty gadgets, strange toys, and the like.
Yes, and another 30-40% what I would call unreadable wokey shale. It's not just that such books are not my cup of tea (as was the case in the past) it really does seem to me that something very sinister has slithered into the whole scene. A few of the booksellers (not all) strike me as possessed.
Well, the eccentric bookseller has been a fine plot device for many a nice little horror movie for as long as film has existed, probably.
But oh for those glorious days of the original Barnes and Noble store with its many remainders bins. Happy happy hours of browsing, back in the days when I not only felt but looked young too.
Possessed is the word I would use too, actually. A lot of occult trash alongside the woke stuff. Where I live the major booksellers seem to be the worst offenders. A faithful index of our times?
It's a shame that the volume on the recording is so low, it was too hard to listen to. Had the volume to max on both the computer and the podcast controls and it was still way too low.
But it was nice to put a voice to eugyppius's name.
He's one of the sanest and most articulate writers we have, and oftentimes very funny as well. I 've been a big fan ever since reading his book THE GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE. I couldn't tell you now how many years ago that was. It was long before covid. Sadly, with covid and the related psy-ops, most of the living writers I used to read lost their minds and my respect. Kunstler is a stand-out exception.
What I find hilarious is certain bookstores having a “banned books section”. It’s mostly gay groomer porn for 8 year olds. No anti vax books or heaven forbid the Camp of the Saints.
Hey lefties , you ARE the living embodiment of everything you claimed to hate (in the latter part of the 20th century).
I find it hilarious, too. The banned book sections I've seen never include anything by, oh, say, RFK, Jr. Ditto Dr. McCullough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Ed Dowd, et al. Nada. Zip. So they've banned some books from their banned books sections. LOL.
A family friend had a very small, very modern bookshop in Berlin. I loved it there and I loved the gentleman because he let me read books, cover-to-cover, when I was still in school and had hardly any money ... Later I got all my latest English books through him - no easy feat in the 1970s ...
oh gosh, the employees... I wonder when book stores are extinct what will these poor sods do to pay their mounting ramen and pot bills. I do not think they can afford coffee anymore.
The employees are the ones that creep me out big time.
The local (THE Loudoun County) library will procure just about any book you want. I have not requested any books lately though. Perhaps "right wing" or narrative contrary books are difficult to request, Round Hill Virginia is pretty conservative so maybe that branch.
No, by all means, hammer the Loudoun county library for whatever conservative book you want. They are so on the defensive this year, and it would be a shame to let up the pressure.
Yeah I go to the library to get books for my daughter, and every book in the children's section is "Lila Has Two Dads" or "Am I a Boy or a Girl?" Even the less blatant ones are "Xochitl makes tamales at her grandmother's house and is mildly teased at school because she has an accent". Even from a kid's perspective, I don't want to read that shit, I want to read about a toad who steals cars and breaks out of jail, or pirates looking for buried treasure.
Exactly. I have taken my children to the library twice since moving to the US. Both times we found nothing worth reading. It’s not just the wokery, it’s the complete dearth of story, imagination, and character. I did find one good children’s book at our local bookstore recently. One. But mostly I go to thriftbooks and repurchase the good stuff that was published in the 1930s through 1980s.
My children spent both library visits (after I dragged them away from the computers) covering up Harry Potter and other such occult trash with nonfiction about horses and birds.
Ditto. Currently in mine it is basically why I hate white people, white culture and white fossil fuels. All the stuff that makes my fat useless life bearable.
I honestly think the only solution is hunger.
What is it about book shops that make them so prone to these fads?
Publishing and bookselling are now dominated by secular college-educated white women and most secular college-educated white women are true believers in the Social Justice faith, their hearts on fire for the cause.
Just like colleges have become madrassas to teach the new One True Faith, bookstores (and pretty much almost every cultural and educational institution in the Anglosphere) have become its propaganda arm, like how when you go to certain large churches they sell pamphlets and Bibles and other trinkets of the faith in a store off a corner.
I don't think this is a fad, this is a mass simultaneous religious conversion/cult indoctrination that's commandeered almost every brain in our supposed thinking and cultural classes, sort of a cross between Maoism and the Social Gospel movement of 100 yrs ago.
This made me laugh because my local small town bookshop is run by......none other than a couple of childless cat ladies. We often see their cats lounging in the bookshop window. Their original cats are memorialized in a painting on the wall as you enter the store.
Once American academia allowed the Trojan Horse called Critical Theory to be wheeled inside its gates, all this was inevitable.
And once people began to realize that Crit Theory was a purely destructive movement dedicated to deconstructing our every social norm and settled arrangement in the hopes that creating enough social rubble would allow "socialist liberation" to bloom, it was too late, the termites had burrowed in too deeply.
The West got so rich, so safe and so tolerant it turned over its educational and cultural institutions to people who hate it and want to destroy it...ooops!
yes, the Western zeitgeist is mostly word games and battles of dualing narratives and will be until the money runs out. a future of scarcity will be very different from our world of prosperity, and the politics of the early 21st century will seem mostly like a HS food fight.
Any species existing within a sheltered environment loses traits necessary for more hostile environs.
Book stores were for the longest time dull, dusty place where only the select few went to shop (people looking for the latest Barbara Cartland or Jackie Collins could get their fix at any kiosk or press agent).
Then, they started getting hip, then hipster and more and more corporate capitalist, which means streamlining of product, lowest denominator-material to maximise potential customer-base, and so on in the usual capitalistic fashion, turning everything into a blanderised unseemly paste.
And the staff evolved to fit the new selection pressure.
The real book stores, such as the one owned by Karl Konrad Koriander - though fictional - were out-evolved. Now, the real books exist only in the reservations called "used book stores".
As larus glaucoides feels the yearly pull to migrate from pole to pole, so doth the Common Librarian, come June, seem to feel the pull to build impossible, teetering stacks of "Pride" books garnished with a wild hodgepodge of rainbow devotionalia. Maybe he or she does it to attract mates, it's utterly puzzling.
A cursory investigation will quickly prove that it is not a mating ritual, as the rate of unmated bookstore employees greatly exceeds that of the general population. The most current theory proposes that these "Pride Stacks" are a type of totem, possibly one with spiritual significance, or the yearly commemoration of some religious event. However, not all experts agree.
It might be a sort of cargo cult, though, trying to attract self-respect by building "Pride Stacks", which must be sorely lacking in environments where a slew of badly written "trans" biographies or graphic sex manuals for teens count as "literature".
Whenever I can, I turn such displayed books over so you don't see the front, or alternately, I cover them with better books on top. This is especially fun to do in Costco.
«“Unlearn Work,” by Sara Weber, author of the pathbreaking monographs The World is Collapsing and I Still Have to Work? and Somebody Else Can Do That Though.»
I'm particularly interested in who that «somebody else» is going to be and how are they going to force them; or is the repression going to be delegated to «somebody else», too?
i believe frau weber is of the opinion that artificial intelligence will be that somebody else who does stuff for her. in this she is perhaps overly optimistic.
I'm super curious how in the ever loving fuck she thinks the computers which the AI runs on are going to operate in the absence of adequate power generation... No, no I'm not, because the answer is going to be stupid. There is no chance that the answer will be the correct one, ("nuclear") and therefore will be the engineering equivalent of "rainbows, unicorn farts, magical fairies, and happy wishes".
I am currently outside Wash, DC (NOVA). There is a data center everywhere. You can tell because the fasade is fake (ie fake windows etc). They are hugh and must take ignormous amounts of power.
More importantly, perhaps AI will soon remove her need to think and use her brain. Then she can live out her life sitting under a tree and contemplating her navel.
That’s the chapter I would like to be reviewed - it sounds so selfish, as though written by a very spoilt child. The answer to her question is, of course, working class men.
The immigrants. I suspect in the deep recesses of their minds the part that actually does understand racial and ethnic differences reserves it for this more enlightened application of the concept. We are given them a stab at a first world life. More palatable than - they will do the menial crap we won't do.
Most well-to-do liberals are complete hypocrites about race. The "stab at a first-world life" sounds too much like the slave owner of the Old South who gave the Africans the benefits of Christian Civilization.
I do believe this is what animates many. They are certainly not processing the second-order consequences of importing low IQ people with almost no impulse control into complex economies they cannot survive in. It is all about the feelz. We rescued them etc.
I don’t agree that chasing this white savior feelz is why they accept immigrants. I mean who is gonna do those jobs? What you are talking about is a thin story laid on top of a structural problem, with the purpose of making people feel they are still in control. Not endorsing the story, it’s clearly not working and dishonest regardless.
Their “guilt” is misplaced in my opinion. The ones who should, in a perfect world, feel that way are the obvious inheritors of the wealth and privilege that flowed from the source (in this case, slavery, colonialism, wars, so on). One can’t really say that your average white western person falls into that category. Though I also think among those who display this guilt, upon further inspection you would find that it doesn’t go very deep.
eugyppius, here you are at your sardonic best! I would rank this post in your All-Time Top Ten. 👍👍
Now this sentence that you quoted from the back-cover text caught my eye:
"We can operate within planetary boundaries and ask the courts to make fossil fuel companies pay."
Logic may be too much to ask of these cultists, but if the public stops using fossil fuels, then exactly how are the fossil-fuel companies going to pay? Selling off oil rigs for scrap wouldn't seem to go very far in the way of "compensation" for the supposed "damages."
they also never read how much it costs to recycle solar panels, and if even possible, wind turbines. They do not know that in several countries wind turbines have to be started (and sometimes kept running) with fossil fuels. I just read an article a few weeks ago about the Irish wind turbines operating like that! I also know first hand, that solar panels do not work as promised - you used to get money to put them and get money for the surplus energy. Not anymore. Now you have to pay to put your surplus on the grid. If I had wanted them I would have had to cut all my trees too, and the installer calculated that at my age, I would probably not earn back the price (I was 55 at the time)
CO2 is a blessing. Not a curse. Anyone that paid attention in 6th grade biology class knows that. Plants thrive on CO2. They take in CO2 and give out oxygen. That's what they do. The more CO2 the more plants thrive. The more plants thrive the more animals thrive. The more green stuff thrives the more food for everyone. Animals and people. Gas your car , heat your home, have a wood fire in the back yard and enjoy your life. And thank CO2 for all the good it does. That's the way the Lord made it.
The use of the word "experts" in the back cover blurb was the giveaway that this was written for morons.
In the last few years I've employed a useful heuristic: if the word "expert" is employed in a headline, the article it appears over can be safely skipped. Saves so much time.
"Unlearn Work" is the winner by far! Let's all sit around and watch the world crumble. Crumble? Does anyone have a cookie to enjoy while we watch? Oh - you have to earn $$ to buy cookies? Well, someone should just give us cookies. After all the world is collapsing.
But someone has to hand-make and bake those cookies - and that surely is work, no? After all, Greenies would never eat Ultra-Processed food made by AI-driven machines, would they!
If you are going to Unlearn Work, then you must also Unlearn Civilization. Society did not advance from 2000BC without some work. You know: the wars, the agriculture, the government, even the religion. All of it work.
"the kind of place that is full of weird aromatic soaps, expensive candles, strange board games and plump middle-aged women in Birkenstocks."
While we may be discouraged from stereotypes this is so spot on.. there's a bookstore in my neighborhood that still request masks for patrons like their staff of non-binary neon colored hair staff who are intolerant of natural breathing!
Eugyppius, I want to see you cover them ALL. Who can choose, from that infernal list of fourteen, a "most deserving" one?
Something in your post caught my eye" ...Sheena Anderson, a 'black feminist, political scientist...' " Ms. Anderson is obviously oblivious to the fact that "political scientist" (or, if you prefer, political science) is an oxymoron of the first stripe. There is NOTHING about politics that would qualify its study as "science." Like economics, by its very nature it's UNscientific. Think about it: Absolutely ZERO application of the well-established scientific method ANYWHERE withing that domain. People who use that term display, for all to see, their ignorance of the definition of "science."
the only chapter I'm really not enthusiastic about is "Unlearn Disinformation," as it looks to be twenty pages deboonking climate scepticism and lecturing us that 97% of scientists agree about agw and everybody has heard all of that a million times already.
A truly ironic title, since that statistic is itself disinformation.
yes.
the only chapter I'm really not enthusiastic about is "Unlearn Disinformation,"
Maybe should have titled it: "Unlearn Stupidity". No?
And for Unlearn Media..............rename "Unlearn Propaganda"
And, lastly, for Unlearn Health..................don't humans exhale CO2??
So we'll rename this one: "Just Hold Your Breath"
Right on! 1960’s utopian BS. Born 59
If it were important it wouldn't be spam. Fuck off.
And yet, that's the one I'd want to see reviewed. Because anything which discomfits scientists who have forgotten- or blocked out- their scientific integrity needs wider exposure.
There's no shortage of that kind of material.
How about "Unlearn Work"? There's bound to be some real quackery in that one.
Right? Imagine these same people full of pretended when they lose power, nobody is at gas stations, they have no way to heat their homes, and the grocery stores fail to have food magically appear. Lmao
I asked for this but based on your lack of desire skip it. They all look very amazing. I just love seeing the logical fallacies of disinformation dummies
the title is indeed enticing, but as i have the advantage of the actual book polluting my kitchen table, i can flip ahead and detect false advertising in this case.
Sorry you had to spend money on that book--book sales just encourage them.
Eugyppius, I am sincerely curious as to whether you have found good references on AGW. That is a high-flux space of propaganda.
Speaking of high flux space, isn't there evidence that global warming is a result of solar flux, so to speak.
Steve Koonin's "Unsettled" (2021), with an updated paperback out in 2024 is quite good. I don't know if that answers your query, but check it out. Cheers.
Well here's a good one, a senior US climatidiot caught out on camera: https://youtu.be/cxF_rrJUlSU?si=dMZg0dMhESqrm3AG
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/putting-the-con-in-consensus-not-only-is-there-no-97-per-cent-consensus-among-climate-scientists-many-misunderstand-core-issues
I used to enjoy browsing round book shops but it has become unbearable due to so many books, such as this one, forced down your throat as soon as you enter.
Same. I can't say that I always thought everything on display in every bookstore was fab, but in general I used to love going into bookstores, all sorts of bookstores, and especially in big cities. Since 2020 almost all bookstores just give me the creeps.
they've become really terrible, especially since everybody learned to order books online during the pandemic. now they all seem to be at least 60% novelty gadgets, strange toys, and the like.
Yes, and another 30-40% what I would call unreadable wokey shale. It's not just that such books are not my cup of tea (as was the case in the past) it really does seem to me that something very sinister has slithered into the whole scene. A few of the booksellers (not all) strike me as possessed.
I would second this motion. It is more than just a few left wing editors. It is like an order from central command.
Remember pretty much 100% of bookstores refused to carry RFK's Fauci book.
I wasn't aware of that.
How did it come to this? It appears as if everyone who went to university is infected with a mind virus. Only the working class have escaped.
It's really uncanny.
Well, the eccentric bookseller has been a fine plot device for many a nice little horror movie for as long as film has existed, probably.
But oh for those glorious days of the original Barnes and Noble store with its many remainders bins. Happy happy hours of browsing, back in the days when I not only felt but looked young too.
You should check out the comedy sitcom "Black Books'
'unreadable wokey shale'
Perfect.
Possessed is the word I would use too, actually. A lot of occult trash alongside the woke stuff. Where I live the major booksellers seem to be the worst offenders. A faithful index of our times?
Eugyppius, by the way, I really enjoyed listening to the interview you did with Jim Kunstler.
If anyone missed that:
https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-407-eugyppius-on-the-political-crises-of-europe/
It's a shame that the volume on the recording is so low, it was too hard to listen to. Had the volume to max on both the computer and the podcast controls and it was still way too low.
But it was nice to put a voice to eugyppius's name.
I just started listening to it on my phone and the volume is fine on my end.
Same here. I didn't have any problem with the volume.
Thanks for the tip, TranscriberB. I have just added Kunstler to my listening list.
He's one of the sanest and most articulate writers we have, and oftentimes very funny as well. I 've been a big fan ever since reading his book THE GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE. I couldn't tell you now how many years ago that was. It was long before covid. Sadly, with covid and the related psy-ops, most of the living writers I used to read lost their minds and my respect. Kunstler is a stand-out exception.
Thank you for the link.
None of these changes in our behavior was just accidental!
have not been in a book store in at least 15 years, and have ordered oodles of books at thrift books and occasionally, when all else fails, amazon
Being a lover of novelty gadgets and strange toys, maybe I should make it a point to visit a bookstore sometime soon.
I use a kindle and buy actual books online.
What I find hilarious is certain bookstores having a “banned books section”. It’s mostly gay groomer porn for 8 year olds. No anti vax books or heaven forbid the Camp of the Saints.
Hey lefties , you ARE the living embodiment of everything you claimed to hate (in the latter part of the 20th century).
I find it hilarious, too. The banned book sections I've seen never include anything by, oh, say, RFK, Jr. Ditto Dr. McCullough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Ed Dowd, et al. Nada. Zip. So they've banned some books from their banned books sections. LOL.
Some banned books are more banned than others.
Moo & oink LOL
A family friend had a very small, very modern bookshop in Berlin. I loved it there and I loved the gentleman because he let me read books, cover-to-cover, when I was still in school and had hardly any money ... Later I got all my latest English books through him - no easy feat in the 1970s ...
oh gosh, the employees... I wonder when book stores are extinct what will these poor sods do to pay their mounting ramen and pot bills. I do not think they can afford coffee anymore.
The employees are the ones that creep me out big time.
The local (THE Loudoun County) library will procure just about any book you want. I have not requested any books lately though. Perhaps "right wing" or narrative contrary books are difficult to request, Round Hill Virginia is pretty conservative so maybe that branch.
No, by all means, hammer the Loudoun county library for whatever conservative book you want. They are so on the defensive this year, and it would be a shame to let up the pressure.
Yeah I go to the library to get books for my daughter, and every book in the children's section is "Lila Has Two Dads" or "Am I a Boy or a Girl?" Even the less blatant ones are "Xochitl makes tamales at her grandmother's house and is mildly teased at school because she has an accent". Even from a kid's perspective, I don't want to read that shit, I want to read about a toad who steals cars and breaks out of jail, or pirates looking for buried treasure.
How do we stop it though? I view these developments as quite sinister. Literally targeting children for filth.
We have become too civilised. At least for now.
It is NOT CIVILIZED to continue to abide this unreality.
Exactly. I have taken my children to the library twice since moving to the US. Both times we found nothing worth reading. It’s not just the wokery, it’s the complete dearth of story, imagination, and character. I did find one good children’s book at our local bookstore recently. One. But mostly I go to thriftbooks and repurchase the good stuff that was published in the 1930s through 1980s.
Not to mention the computers full of “educational “ games placed enticingly at child height as soon as you walk into the library.
My children spent both library visits (after I dragged them away from the computers) covering up Harry Potter and other such occult trash with nonfiction about horses and birds.
Ditto. Currently in mine it is basically why I hate white people, white culture and white fossil fuels. All the stuff that makes my fat useless life bearable.
I honestly think the only solution is hunger.
What is it about book shops that make them so prone to these fads?
Publishing and bookselling are now dominated by secular college-educated white women and most secular college-educated white women are true believers in the Social Justice faith, their hearts on fire for the cause.
Just like colleges have become madrassas to teach the new One True Faith, bookstores (and pretty much almost every cultural and educational institution in the Anglosphere) have become its propaganda arm, like how when you go to certain large churches they sell pamphlets and Bibles and other trinkets of the faith in a store off a corner.
I don't think this is a fad, this is a mass simultaneous religious conversion/cult indoctrination that's commandeered almost every brain in our supposed thinking and cultural classes, sort of a cross between Maoism and the Social Gospel movement of 100 yrs ago.
Childless Cat Ladies strike again
they're not childless, the whole planet and all its oppressed and downtrodden creatures are their children!
Please stop, I’m laughing so hard my sides ache!
Indeed
lolol
This made me laugh because my local small town bookshop is run by......none other than a couple of childless cat ladies. We often see their cats lounging in the bookshop window. Their original cats are memorialized in a painting on the wall as you enter the store.
Once American academia allowed the Trojan Horse called Critical Theory to be wheeled inside its gates, all this was inevitable.
And once people began to realize that Crit Theory was a purely destructive movement dedicated to deconstructing our every social norm and settled arrangement in the hopes that creating enough social rubble would allow "socialist liberation" to bloom, it was too late, the termites had burrowed in too deeply.
The West got so rich, so safe and so tolerant it turned over its educational and cultural institutions to people who hate it and want to destroy it...ooops!
And here we are...
I'm still of the view those most drawn to such ideology are the least suited to surviving hardship. Women and low T men basically.
yes, the Western zeitgeist is mostly word games and battles of dualing narratives and will be until the money runs out. a future of scarcity will be very different from our world of prosperity, and the politics of the early 21st century will seem mostly like a HS food fight.
Any species existing within a sheltered environment loses traits necessary for more hostile environs.
Book stores were for the longest time dull, dusty place where only the select few went to shop (people looking for the latest Barbara Cartland or Jackie Collins could get their fix at any kiosk or press agent).
Then, they started getting hip, then hipster and more and more corporate capitalist, which means streamlining of product, lowest denominator-material to maximise potential customer-base, and so on in the usual capitalistic fashion, turning everything into a blanderised unseemly paste.
And the staff evolved to fit the new selection pressure.
The real book stores, such as the one owned by Karl Konrad Koriander - though fictional - were out-evolved. Now, the real books exist only in the reservations called "used book stores".
Or?
"Blanderized" - great word!
Same happens in public libraries.
As larus glaucoides feels the yearly pull to migrate from pole to pole, so doth the Common Librarian, come June, seem to feel the pull to build impossible, teetering stacks of "Pride" books garnished with a wild hodgepodge of rainbow devotionalia. Maybe he or she does it to attract mates, it's utterly puzzling.
A cursory investigation will quickly prove that it is not a mating ritual, as the rate of unmated bookstore employees greatly exceeds that of the general population. The most current theory proposes that these "Pride Stacks" are a type of totem, possibly one with spiritual significance, or the yearly commemoration of some religious event. However, not all experts agree.
It might be a sort of cargo cult, though, trying to attract self-respect by building "Pride Stacks", which must be sorely lacking in environments where a slew of badly written "trans" biographies or graphic sex manuals for teens count as "literature".
Whenever I can, I turn such displayed books over so you don't see the front, or alternately, I cover them with better books on top. This is especially fun to do in Costco.
If the Marxism in a bookstore is too oppressive, I typically ask the clerk if they carry Unintended Consequences. I've never had my bluff called.
Why is there no "Unlearn Learning" chapter?
Seem to me that really should, necessarily, be the first one actually.
Or maybe "Unlearn Reality" fits that bill better.
"Unlearn Reality" is the name of the entire movement.
Nailed it!
LIKE
How about “Unlearn Your Lying Eyes.”
Love Unlearn Reality. Complimenti
«“Unlearn Work,” by Sara Weber, author of the pathbreaking monographs The World is Collapsing and I Still Have to Work? and Somebody Else Can Do That Though.»
I'm particularly interested in who that «somebody else» is going to be and how are they going to force them; or is the repression going to be delegated to «somebody else», too?
i believe frau weber is of the opinion that artificial intelligence will be that somebody else who does stuff for her. in this she is perhaps overly optimistic.
I'm super curious how in the ever loving fuck she thinks the computers which the AI runs on are going to operate in the absence of adequate power generation... No, no I'm not, because the answer is going to be stupid. There is no chance that the answer will be the correct one, ("nuclear") and therefore will be the engineering equivalent of "rainbows, unicorn farts, magical fairies, and happy wishes".
I am currently outside Wash, DC (NOVA). There is a data center everywhere. You can tell because the fasade is fake (ie fake windows etc). They are hugh and must take ignormous amounts of power.
I agree, but there is no shortage of sheeple to do it for them.
Don't unicorn farts contain methane and CO2? Surely you aren't suggesting they'd be happy with that as a way of generating power? 🙂
Well no, that's what's so magical about them. They contain only good feelings and smell like perfume. It's truly a miracle. 🤪
Hardly. Writing generic nonsense is something AI is already great at. She'll be out of the book writing business in no time!
My prayers are directed to that very goal
More importantly, perhaps AI will soon remove her need to think and use her brain. Then she can live out her life sitting under a tree and contemplating her navel.
Wasn't there already a movie about that world? La Maitresse, or something?
Most kids grow out of technocommunist ideas like that by the age of 14. THOUGH!
'Most kids grow out of technocommunist ideas like that by the age of 14'
The operative word there is "grow".
If AI will wash my dishes and change the cat box, I'm in.
My cat has already vetoed the idea. We are part of the feline servant class.
Isn’t it quaint how her ilk always imagine that every new automation will be harnessed to serve their leisure, despite all evidence to the contrary?
No, but it can scrape databases.
That’s the chapter I would like to be reviewed - it sounds so selfish, as though written by a very spoilt child. The answer to her question is, of course, working class men.
The immigrants. I suspect in the deep recesses of their minds the part that actually does understand racial and ethnic differences reserves it for this more enlightened application of the concept. We are given them a stab at a first world life. More palatable than - they will do the menial crap we won't do.
Most well-to-do liberals are complete hypocrites about race. The "stab at a first-world life" sounds too much like the slave owner of the Old South who gave the Africans the benefits of Christian Civilization.
I do believe this is what animates many. They are certainly not processing the second-order consequences of importing low IQ people with almost no impulse control into complex economies they cannot survive in. It is all about the feelz. We rescued them etc.
I don’t agree that chasing this white savior feelz is why they accept immigrants. I mean who is gonna do those jobs? What you are talking about is a thin story laid on top of a structural problem, with the purpose of making people feel they are still in control. Not endorsing the story, it’s clearly not working and dishonest regardless.
I know very people who think beyond emotion. Their view of mass immigration is not economic in nature. They think it is racist to say no.
Their “guilt” is misplaced in my opinion. The ones who should, in a perfect world, feel that way are the obvious inheritors of the wealth and privilege that flowed from the source (in this case, slavery, colonialism, wars, so on). One can’t really say that your average white western person falls into that category. Though I also think among those who display this guilt, upon further inspection you would find that it doesn’t go very deep.
Sounds to me like Sara's a lazy parasite.
Kind of obvious, right?
Jesus Fuck, I've only read the titles of those articles and I already want to garotte the authors.
I'm seriously not sure if I can read full reviews and not go fully homicidal. 🤣
"Math is hard. Let's destroy the human species!"
Please, don’t hold back.
I mean, there's got to be a first time for everything... ;)
Unlearn sanctimony?
I think that’s asking too much. You might just as well ask them to Unlearn Breathing
eugyppius, here you are at your sardonic best! I would rank this post in your All-Time Top Ten. 👍👍
Now this sentence that you quoted from the back-cover text caught my eye:
"We can operate within planetary boundaries and ask the courts to make fossil fuel companies pay."
Logic may be too much to ask of these cultists, but if the public stops using fossil fuels, then exactly how are the fossil-fuel companies going to pay? Selling off oil rigs for scrap wouldn't seem to go very far in the way of "compensation" for the supposed "damages."
they also never read how much it costs to recycle solar panels, and if even possible, wind turbines. They do not know that in several countries wind turbines have to be started (and sometimes kept running) with fossil fuels. I just read an article a few weeks ago about the Irish wind turbines operating like that! I also know first hand, that solar panels do not work as promised - you used to get money to put them and get money for the surplus energy. Not anymore. Now you have to pay to put your surplus on the grid. If I had wanted them I would have had to cut all my trees too, and the installer calculated that at my age, I would probably not earn back the price (I was 55 at the time)
Our power company keeps trying to reduce the amount of credit people get for their grid-tied systems.
Please, please, please: I nominate "10 : Unlearn Work" because we all deserve to know whether this will also involve Unlearn getting paid.
“Double negatives are hard.” 😂
No, I can’t ask you to read any of those chapters because I have too much regard for you.
I think you mean double negatives aren't not hard .
CO2 is a blessing. Not a curse. Anyone that paid attention in 6th grade biology class knows that. Plants thrive on CO2. They take in CO2 and give out oxygen. That's what they do. The more CO2 the more plants thrive. The more plants thrive the more animals thrive. The more green stuff thrives the more food for everyone. Animals and people. Gas your car , heat your home, have a wood fire in the back yard and enjoy your life. And thank CO2 for all the good it does. That's the way the Lord made it.
The use of the word "experts" in the back cover blurb was the giveaway that this was written for morons.
In the last few years I've employed a useful heuristic: if the word "expert" is employed in a headline, the article it appears over can be safely skipped. Saves so much time.
Sounds like a good rule of thumb. I shall embrace it.
"Unlearn Work" is the winner by far! Let's all sit around and watch the world crumble. Crumble? Does anyone have a cookie to enjoy while we watch? Oh - you have to earn $$ to buy cookies? Well, someone should just give us cookies. After all the world is collapsing.
But someone has to hand-make and bake those cookies - and that surely is work, no? After all, Greenies would never eat Ultra-Processed food made by AI-driven machines, would they!
Regrettably, I think they'd love it. The double standards they embrace are legion...
If you are going to Unlearn Work, then you must also Unlearn Civilization. Society did not advance from 2000BC without some work. You know: the wars, the agriculture, the government, even the religion. All of it work.
Even pre-agricultural hunter gatherers had to work.
"the kind of place that is full of weird aromatic soaps, expensive candles, strange board games and plump middle-aged women in Birkenstocks."
While we may be discouraged from stereotypes this is so spot on.. there's a bookstore in my neighborhood that still request masks for patrons like their staff of non-binary neon colored hair staff who are intolerant of natural breathing!
CARBON GENOCIDE CULT…HOLOCAUST (RNA,DEPOPULATION) SALES….
Aww, c'mon - surely someone else must be interested in 'Unlearn Fashion'?
If you've ever visited a clothing optional RV resort, you already know why that's a bad idea.
I was never interested in learning fashion, so I'm already there.
Eugyppius, I want to see you cover them ALL. Who can choose, from that infernal list of fourteen, a "most deserving" one?
Something in your post caught my eye" ...Sheena Anderson, a 'black feminist, political scientist...' " Ms. Anderson is obviously oblivious to the fact that "political scientist" (or, if you prefer, political science) is an oxymoron of the first stripe. There is NOTHING about politics that would qualify its study as "science." Like economics, by its very nature it's UNscientific. Think about it: Absolutely ZERO application of the well-established scientific method ANYWHERE withing that domain. People who use that term display, for all to see, their ignorance of the definition of "science."