It’s a pretty hilarious joke the universe played on the empiricists that they spent all this time and trouble showing the universe was explicable, comprehensible and completely deterministic and then got…quantum mechanics and its consequences.
Good one, universe. I like your sense of humor.
According to liberals, we should get rid of the space program, and the Olympics*, and anything that has anything at all to do with enjoyment or that frivolous “fun” stuff and live in high-rise concrete boxes and undergo constant penance for our grave sins.
This is primarily why I am not a liberal, even though my outlook overall aligns most closely with typically-liberal views.
Liberals are increasingly authoritarian, ever-more on board with censorship, just dandy with neoliberalism and predatory capitalism, and are fans of innately insane ideas like completely open borders.
I want no part of any of that. But mostly, many liberals are just completely against fun or adventure or actually attempting to make anything better, and I really want no part of that in particular.
*The Olympics should be held in the same place every year. No stadium building and all that. That is ridiculous.
i never saw so much push back from adults towards YA literature as when middle aged women started reading The Hunger Games. They were horrified that kids would be given such harsh stories, and I kept trying to point out the NECESSITY of confronting these hard issues in a safe fictional environment.
Fuck. Yes.
I’m very glad I read H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Poppy Z. Brite et al, when I was very young — even though I was castigated for reading those by adults who found out — because they allowed me to experience traumatic events and compare them to my own real life (which was also often traumatic) and see that people could persevere through them and even worse than what I was experiencing, that horrible people didn’t have to make you into a horrible person, and that there could be something else despite what people did to (literally) beat you down.