Comment Beating Straw Man on Dead Horse with Dumb Stick... (Score 1) 617
Parent presents fallacious straw-man argument.
Parent's parent wasn't for depriving children
of entertainment. Parent misses simple truth:
LEGOS /ARE/ EDUCATIONAL FOR TODDLERS.
Misfire b/c "Entertainment"'s miscontext'd.
We should implement our priorities /wisely/.
Parent wisely points out that the men & women
who hold the reigns of boardroom control over
a handful of companies with $3 bn/yr profits,
who make untold sums and live - to the world-
view of 99/100 - not only *incomprehensibly*
glutted w/the EMPIRICAL funds to act as God; &
most wouldn't be facile enough to get the joke
of, on /., playing off double-entendre out of
the rather scientific term "empirical," and
that the U.S. is at least a /part/ of Empire.
Th'empire extends to our entrenched oligopolies sweet-dealing one another to deceive consumers. Hollywood = "Entertainment" = top-down model that Gov't/Indsutry/Crooks have had time to dig their talons into over decades without oversight, and artists MUST go through that system to provide their work broad /exposure/.
You'd prefer our society spend its time and effort to protect /table scraps/ of certain
obscenely obese in their overruly ownership
Americans, following in the footsteps both
of those like the Medici and aiding glory -
but more often crippling their selves with a
crutch of money - and of its hypnotic power.
Indeed, a recent trent in biz and politics has been OUTSOURCING of distasteful and hard PERSONAL MATTERS; the true challenges of life, those which prompt growth; maturity.
*HENCE*: --> Why the fuck give away money to the people who are one step below those like Buffet & Gates who, given the immense RICHNESS of America, ALREADY CAN'T **GIVE** THEIR UNTOLD WEALTH AWAY PHILANTHROPICALLY(!!!!!) when those 2nd order wealthy are on average less likely to be able to do immediate good in the world around them with the additional funds (vs their already $80mil in the bank) when it could affect the lives and situations of so many other people out there who could truly benefit from exposure to what artists out there wanted to SAY to EVERYONE ELSE... that's what art is, a STATEMENT that's meant to be HEARD; "Communication is the effect upon the listener," and all EDUCATION can't happen without entertaining simultaneous. Otherwise it's not tied to your self, and you might gain something, but you will be none the wiser for it. NOBODY WHO IS RICH BECAUSE THEY OWN SOMETHING *HAS* TO THINK. Some are rich due to character, fortitude, etc.; those of the record industry bilked their fortunes by being sharks preying on innocent & gullible, producers & consumers.
At least for all its bureauCRAZY and rules (not to mention structural problems that retard people by decades in development, both socially as well as intellectually), the EDUCATION sector has its fair share of hands-on chaperone nurturing teaching and cultivating type of WISE & PROTECTIVE SOUL who recognizes more fully where value lies than he who tries to sleeze value from the pimping and perversion of artists' visions.
LEGOS
Misfire b/c "Entertainment"'s miscontext'd.
We should implement our priorities
Th'empire extends to our entrenched oligopolies sweet-dealing one another to deceive consumers. Hollywood = "Entertainment" = top-down model that Gov't/Indsutry/Crooks have had time to dig their talons into over decades without oversight, and artists MUST go through that system to provide their work broad
You'd prefer our society spend its time and effort to protect
Indeed, a recent trent in biz and politics has been OUTSOURCING of distasteful and hard PERSONAL MATTERS; the true challenges of life, those which prompt growth; maturity.
*HENCE*: --> Why the fuck give away money to the people who are one step below those like Buffet & Gates who, given the immense RICHNESS of America, ALREADY CAN'T **GIVE** THEIR UNTOLD WEALTH AWAY PHILANTHROPICALLY(!!!!!) when those 2nd order wealthy are on average less likely to be able to do immediate good in the world around them with the additional funds (vs their already $80mil in the bank) when it could affect the lives and situations of so many other people out there who could truly benefit from exposure to what artists out there wanted to SAY to EVERYONE ELSE... that's what art is, a STATEMENT that's meant to be HEARD; "Communication is the effect upon the listener," and all EDUCATION can't happen without entertaining simultaneous. Otherwise it's not tied to your self, and you might gain something, but you will be none the wiser for it. NOBODY WHO IS RICH BECAUSE THEY OWN SOMETHING *HAS* TO THINK. Some are rich due to character, fortitude, etc.; those of the record industry bilked their fortunes by being sharks preying on innocent & gullible, producers & consumers.
At least for all its bureauCRAZY and rules (not to mention structural problems that retard people by decades in development, both socially as well as intellectually), the EDUCATION sector has its fair share of hands-on chaperone nurturing teaching and cultivating type of WISE & PROTECTIVE SOUL who recognizes more fully where value lies than he who tries to sleeze value from the pimping and perversion of artists' visions.
