Determinism and reversibility spring traps.
The reversibility of physical laws means that causality could work the opposite direction that we perceive; the future causing the past. What difference in the equation?
Time means nothing at all, to borrow a phrase from Lisa Mitchell.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Lot of covers today it appears.
Remember when the NYT eliminated their copy desk and insisted it wouldn’t affect the quality? As everyone knew, wrong. I increasingly see grammatical and orthographic mistakes on their site, as in this article.
Mistakes like this just shouldn’t appear with any sort of regularity in a newspaper (this article was also in the print edition) of a media organization with the NYT‘s vast resources.
Funny what happens when you eliminate your copy desk.
Zuckerberg/Winfrey in 2020?
I kid, I kid.
You hope.
I’m not defending Aziz Ansari here. I think he was a jerk to “Grace” and though not a rapist, certainly an entitled asshole.
However, many women will outright reject you as pusillanimous and unmanly if you are not sexually forward or aggressive. I tend not to be attracted to these type of women, but I have certainly dated a few. I don’t mean pressuring a woman into sex — I mean unless you really take the initiative, these women see you as a complete loser and weak. They are attracted to the narrative of the aggressive, implacable male. Ansari I am sure has experienced more of these women than people in most other walks of life. I am certain that these experiences altered his behavior towards women.
As I said, these women are not for me. But in my experience, they are roughly half the dating market. Direct quote from a woman who was essentially berating me for not being sexually aggressive enough (before we’d ever had sex): “You have to make me yours! Stop asking so many questions!”
Not sure where that falls into the “enthusiastic consent” narrative. Essentially, she wanted none of that at all. Feminists will tell you these women don’t exist. Feminists are wrong. Of course, according to feminists, socialization also doesn’t exist and is all-encompassing, whether they are talking about men being socialized or women.
I wish ambiguity were excisable from human interaction — most of the time at least. But the simple fact is that it’s persistent and indissoluble. Certainly, culture can be changed. Human nature, however, cannot be.