Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why You Should Skip College, Giving Up & The Real O’Reilly | Dennis Miller | COMEDY | Rubin Report" video.

James Woods. The actor I never liked. He just looked mean and his characters were always mean and nasty. Then he took a blow-torch to Twitter and now I admire him because he's mean and nasty. And brutally honest. I'd like to think I'd be just like him if I had "Fuck you" money.
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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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We're hyper-focused on politics because we've made government bigger than we are, and every small decision made thousands of miles away affects each and every one's life in profound ways. You don't WANT to be involved in politics, but the Federal Reserve, in a fit of generosity, can turn everything you worked for all your life absolutely worthless. You HAVE to keep track, even though it's 100% futile, because 50-percent-plus-1 of us think it must be a good idea.
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College is GREAT if you don't hide from the upper-division math, science, and even history. Throw in some economics. Hope your history and economics teachers aren't deluded (or malevolent) communists. If they are, then drop the course. I took upper-division lit, while I was at it, but there was nothing there that isn't taken to a whole new level by the greats in science fiction, which however pulp it is, it's still informed by Shakespeare and all the rest, without fucking with the iambic pentameter. Take as little of the humanities as possible. Teach that to yourself on YouTube from many sources. Don't settle for the fat asshole that landed a teaching gig at the school you end up at, because chances are good that they totally don't understand human progress.
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