Category: culture

• [YT][posting][response] The Failure of “Solo” Is the Fault of White Men (WCB)

  

  I agree with WCB. The logic of Scott Mendelson is a little off. If the media would believe have us believe that the (white) majority of America is racist and sexist, why did Solo fail at the box office? Perhaps the reasons behind Solo‘s poor debut is due to a complication of many factors –…

  dappled-things

  July 2, 2018

  culture, literary critique, thought piece, video

  box office, culture, hans solo, politics, propaganda, solo, solo a star wars story, star wars

• http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-soh-trans-feminism-anti-science-20170210-story.html

  dappled-things

  June 27, 2018

  culture, interesting stuff, link, thought piece

  feminism, science

• [review] Why Science Is Wrong …About Almost Everything (Alex Tsakiris)

  

  Recently, there has been an academic and social backlash towards the elitism of the scientific community as new slogans have arisen. “Science is a construct”, taken at face value, is one of those popular buzzwords that should – and must – be brought into question. A better statement to theorize is: the trajectory of current…

  dappled-things

  June 15, 2018

  book review, culture, literature, nonfiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, atheism, consciousness, culture, modernism, philosophy, postmodernity, religion, science, skeptico, social construct, social theory, technology

• https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/high-price-stale-grievances/

  dappled-things

  June 10, 2018

  culture, random writing, thought piece

  america, culture, history, opinion