MLK c+ is fascinating. It’s interesting to ponder what went on there. The follow semester he did even worse in public speaking and got a C. It was the same professor who was a hard grader. MLK did go on to graduate number 1 in his mostly white class and he was valedictorian of his class. (He wasn’t crushed by his grade. It pushed him to higher heights.)
Some of the benefits that Tokyo has listed are because of the culture that is more "group" focus rather than "individual/me" focus. We can learn something from Japan.
It still flabbergasts me that people write that significant elements of the elite consensus were a "choice," as though it would have been viable to throw up huge tariff walls and force the vast majority of American consumers to buy artificially expensive and lower-quality products to "save" a comparably small number of jobs as though it is either possible or desirable to sustain a multi-generational consistent social order of place and occupation indefinitely, as opposed to actually follow through on providing the retraining mostly Republicans failed to support. We have had ten years of populist politics and in that time there has been a total failure to articulate let alone deliver an actual realistic and broad-based alternative. Neoliberal globalisation may be unsatisfying aesthetically, emotionally, and what have you but the only people even beginning to point to a possible politics addressing the level at which you'd need to operate to deliver something else (Benjamin Studebaker's discussion of new, representative international arrangements) are nowhere near discursive prominence, such that among options presented the old status quo was by far superior to Trump, Ro Khanna, etc
MLK c+ is fascinating. It’s interesting to ponder what went on there. The follow semester he did even worse in public speaking and got a C. It was the same professor who was a hard grader. MLK did go on to graduate number 1 in his mostly white class and he was valedictorian of his class. (He wasn’t crushed by his grade. It pushed him to higher heights.)
Amazing charts, as usual. And who cannot be inspired by Jim Abbott's no-hitter?
Great read, very interesting questions.
Some of the benefits that Tokyo has listed are because of the culture that is more "group" focus rather than "individual/me" focus. We can learn something from Japan.
Always a great Sunday read, thank you!
Isn't NEWS an acronym of North East West South (essentially, encompassing everything)?
ESPN did a terrific documentary on Jim Abbott: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45716364/how-watch-jim-abbott-southpaw-e60-documentary-espn
It still flabbergasts me that people write that significant elements of the elite consensus were a "choice," as though it would have been viable to throw up huge tariff walls and force the vast majority of American consumers to buy artificially expensive and lower-quality products to "save" a comparably small number of jobs as though it is either possible or desirable to sustain a multi-generational consistent social order of place and occupation indefinitely, as opposed to actually follow through on providing the retraining mostly Republicans failed to support. We have had ten years of populist politics and in that time there has been a total failure to articulate let alone deliver an actual realistic and broad-based alternative. Neoliberal globalisation may be unsatisfying aesthetically, emotionally, and what have you but the only people even beginning to point to a possible politics addressing the level at which you'd need to operate to deliver something else (Benjamin Studebaker's discussion of new, representative international arrangements) are nowhere near discursive prominence, such that among options presented the old status quo was by far superior to Trump, Ro Khanna, etc