Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report"
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Yes. I agree. Working and learning remotely is a boon to society, but bosses, teachers and students are poorly trained for it. I'm one of the exceptions Dave talked about, due to health reasons, and I was already working remotely before the p1and3m1c. For people who are MOTIVATED and TRAINED, remote work is highly efficient and effective. Zero commute time, massive fuel savings, and your BEST people aren't held back by one-size-fits-all, realtime, in-person groups, that never move any faster than the slowest group member, or an arbitrary schedule.
My best students slurp up the knowledge FAST. Going remote, I can stay out of their way and put more time and energy where it's needed. Students can work ahead, so they can slow down if a concept kicks their butt. Working ahead also frees up space for family emergencies. Got a funeral to attend or need to care for a sick parent/child/grandma? You've got some slack in your schedule for LIFE stuff, which is perfect for motivated students, adult students, students with lots of extracurricular activities of all kinds.
But the vast majority of students aren't trained to direct their own learning in any way. Much of the resistance to remote learning is the comfortable, in-person spoon feedings that generations of Americans have experienced, even though we know it's not really working. And of course, feminism in education is pushing most of the boys right out of the system, with lesson plans and teaching strategies aimed at females, with more emphasis on busy work and less on actual mastery of the material. Just so no one's feelings are hurt... Of course, no one cares about the feelings of students who are alienated or diagnosed as ADHD because they're normal and the lessons suck.
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Religions that persist have a clear survival imperative built in. Often by design, because the originators of religion are all about unifying people under one political banner, with God - and faith - as the unifying principle. They persist because they agree - whether thru science or "Divine Revelation" - with what science eventually ends up telling us. We can talk about civil unions 'til the cows come home, but the fact is that not a single human being who ever lived was the product of a homosexual union. LGBTQXYZ are all products of heterosexual unions.
I'm not a huge fan of state-recognized marriages, hetero or otherwise, because the advantages they build into having children mainly serve the state's endless thirst for tax revenue and cannon fodder. It's an artificial "grow!" imperative from an earlier time. But since it IS enshrined in the law, and MEDICAL and PENSION BENEFITS are attached to recognized unions, then ANY union - hetero or otherwise - should be recognized by the state, as well. It should be that people get married because they want to solemnize a long-term relationship. And if you share the same home, same bed, same LIFE for years, your spouse should receive the standard spousal benefits.
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It's not worse than it's ever been. We just know more about ourselves and each other. Why do you think liberals have been hyper-ventilating for 3 1/2 years? They're finding out that their comfortable little reality isn't the larger reality. It's just like 50 years ago, when a Christian nation realized that half the country hadn't accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Still a LOT of Christians who're convinced that half the country is under the Spell Of Satan. Well, now that other half of the country has discovered to its shock and horror that half the country actually voted for Donald Trump! DEPLORABLE!
Such periods are traumatic for some people. For other people, these times of paradigm shift are very consciousness-raising. I know my father was dragged into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming, railing against Walter Cronkite and rooting for Archie Bunker back in the '60s and '70s, and finally coming around to agreeing with me that the War on Drugs is just Al Capone with a deep tan. Legalize, regulate and tax the stuff.
Dad was offended by The Jeffersons and Good Times; whereas, we kids were ALL about KID DIE-NO-MITE! Acceptance of gays was HUGE for my parents' generation. I grew up during that paradigm shift, starting on the regressive side, and finally figuring out that there's only one person whose sexual preferences you should care about other than your own, and that's your partner's. The only exception is if you're attracted to citizens below the age of consent, and then it's a matter for your psychiatrist and, if you act on your preference, law enforcement and the courts.
Now the people who are freaking out are the Boomers who used to watch "Friends," and still do on re-runs, FAIK. The hip, well-adjusted middle-class yuppies are all very chic, very up-to-date on the latest dogma, and they're no different from my Methodist preacher extracting the meaning of life from the verse "He fed the dog."
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I taught at a college up in the mountains. I loved the regular people from the area. I mentioned this to a colleague who sniffed and said "I don't like being around those people." A paragon of liberalism, just like 90% of my colleagues, but they did NOT want to venture outside their bubble. I preferred the local ranchers, farmers, and outfitters. They were REAL. My colleagues were very judgemental, in a very twisted "Toe the liberal line or be ostracized" way that struck me as more conservative than liberal. Very regressive, hidebound people, without an original thought in their heads. Just deadly, dull conformity. And what made it worse, was they insisted they were the tolerant, open-minded ones, when they were anything but. Very stifling atmosphere.
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