Things we consider normal now

[frugal-one]

Everything old is new again. It was not unusual back in the day for unmarried persons to live with relatives indefinitely.

Was referring to gift giving.

[LDAHL]

I disagree about the gatekeeper thing. You are on top of the jargon and worried about what most of us are not even conscious of. republicans were tearing down statues…. so is that who you want to laugh out of existence?

There’s a pretty long list. I’d start with the people who want to replace “field” with “practicum” lest anyone take offense. Then I’d work my way up to the people who want to fire university lecturers who make them “feel unsafe” for any number of innocuous reasons.

[iris lilies]

There’s a pretty long list. I’d start with the people who want to replace “field” with “practicum” lest anyone take offense. Then I’d work my way up to the people who want to fire university lecturers who make them “feel unsafe” for any number of innocuous reasons.

I agree that the University scene is the most ridiculous.

Coming up behind are tight assed, grim lipped audiences of comedians who are curtailing their formerly insightful commentary on society, tailoring it into blandness, to appease these audiences.

Don’t forget the famous people (big Hollywood types down to your garden variety social media influencers) who lecture us peons in various ways. You know, the ones who fly all over the world regularly, opining about climate change and mankind's need to do better. Scolding us about keeping guns for protection when they spend $6 million annually on security. This last isnt about actual speech deniers, but let us laugh at them anyway!

[catherine]

There’s a pretty long list. I’d start with the people who want to replace “field” with “practicum” lest anyone take offense. Then I’d work my way up to the people who want to fire university lecturers who make them “feel unsafe” for any number of innocuous reasons.

I have to agree with you there. The trend in the fear of thinking beyond the knee-jerk reaction is a terrible shift on University campuses. The whole idea of college is to examine and discuss ideas. The cancel culture in particular reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the little boy could just make people disappear if he didn't like what they said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTMbIxEj-E

[LDAHL]

I have to agree with you there. The trend in the fear of thinking beyond the knee-jerk reaction is a terrible shift on University campuses. The whole idea of college is to examine and discuss ideas. The cancel culture in particular reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the little boy could just make people disappear if he didn't like what they said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTMbIxEj-E

I think they may have peaked when they got a professor fired because his organic chemistry course was too hard.