Song Soc

She does that really well and has a pretty good knowledge of music for someone so young. Not too surprising since she writes her own songs and someone who isn’t interested in music won’t be much good without that.

She calls herself a “country pumpkin” at 5:34! Now that’s a damn cute solecism as much as I usually dislike those. After all, where else do we use the word “bumpkin?” Nowhere. And we often call those we love some variation of “pumpkin.”

Now every time I see her I will probably think of her dressed as a pumpkin, though.

Speaking of:

Lingo

Me: I wish I knew many other languages so I could read all the books in those languages that haven’t been translated or were obviously poorly translated.

Also me: Which of the books on my 5,000-book-long “to read” list should I start next?*

*Yes, I do really have a “to read” list that is about 5,000 books long.

Believers In Me

Righto. There is no scientific answer to values and priorities. None. Not for Covid, not for anything. “Believe science” is nonsense (for a whole variety of reasons) and it doesn’t work to determine what anyone should do, nor can it ever. “Believe science” can be used to support anything from farming organs from still-living people to ritual human sacrifice to wearing ornamental chickens on top of your head.

And meanwhile STEM goofuses claim we don’t need philosophy.

Capital’s Offenses

I agree. This is apart from the rights that all LGBT people should have by virtue of being human. Why techno capital is so enamored of LGBT initiatives is it’s a way to make individuals see themselves as their own sovereigns, part of no real cohesive group (while in reality being siloed into a group that capital can classify), thus allowing marketing and propaganda pushes to work as well and as predictably as possible.

Expanding beyond that, there is no reason that in a world and with technology so drastically altered that capitalism is the best system. Or socialism. Or communism. There are whole scads of systems that we haven’t even tried — haven’t even thought of — that we could now apply with our drastically altered informational and sociocultural environment. We’ll probably not try these systems, I admit. But we should.