1990…er…2000…um…2010…wait…

Posted By KJ / 26th January 2012

Interesting article on Vanity Fair about the changes we’ve gone through as a society since the early 90′s/late 80′s.   Or rather the lack of changes we’ve gone through as a society since the early 90′s/late 80′s.

The author does point out a few things that have changed.  The internet really wasn’t around then in the form that it is now, Television was still mostly the network swill and women dressed a little more demurely, one didn’t see the amount of breasts that one sees now days.  Not that it’s a bad thing, far from it, just sayin…

Why the lack of changes? According to the author,

“Why is this happening? In some large measure, I think, it’s an unconscious collective reaction to all the profound nonstop newness we’re experiencing on the tech and geopolitical and economic fronts. People have a limited capacity to embrace flux and strangeness and dissatisfaction, and right now we’re maxed out. So as the Web and artificially intelligent smartphones and the rise of China and 9/11 and the winners-take-all American economy and the Great Recession disrupt and transform our lives and hopes and dreams, we are clinging as never before to the familiar in matters of style and culture.”

I agree and frankly, I d0n’t have a problem with this.  Change requires, well, change. I don’t know about you but I’ve got enough going on in my life that has forced change and I really want to cling to something safe and something that I know.

But that’s just me…

Link to article

Sarah plain and full of bulls*()

Posted By KJ / 1st September 2010

Bullshit. Completely and totally full of it.

Sarah Palin likes to fashion herself as one of the regular people. One of you! Not me, mind but you, if you want it. She jets around the country appearing at gatherings of people who forget that Medicare is a government handout and who forget that taxes paid for the road that the used to get to whatever Kmart Sarah is appearing at.

Vanity Fair did a great piece on Frau Palin. Beyond the stiffing the hotel staffs on tips and the yelling, screaming fits of rage, she’s really not a very good person. She has one speech that one can listen to, change “bible” with “constitution” and be good to go.

It’s amazing to me that this charlatan has garnered such “respect” and adoration. The crowds love her. The total and complete love that these huge crowds show for her speaks, I think more to the intelligence of the American public or lack thereof, than it does to the quality of her speeches and rhetoric.

How sad.

Article. It’s a long read but stick with it.