Posted on 01/26/2015 2:15:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Excluding those who die from abortion, of course.
And such are the typical "thoughts" of an unhinged leftist. William Henry Gates III shows disrespect for the better America depicted in those wholesome programs of my young adult years. I guarantee you that Ward Cleaver was a far better father figure than Walter White. That anti-military liberal also thinks poorly of Combat!, a program that honored the greatest fighting force the world has ever known. I have no doubts that the next pronouncement from Gates, a hippie-type, will be to slam American Sniper since it also honors a better America than the one he prefers.
A "scientist" can go to work developing a cure for cancer (or placebos) or making meth.
It's the same with television programming and just as fruitless.
Ahmet Ertegün boasted of how impressed he was in Kid Rock when he saw him live in a club/party because he was rapping and playing drums and scratching records. Somehow that made him more talented in the eyes of the exec than all of the R&B greats who recored for Atlantic Records in the 40s-60s.
Bill Gates is such an idealist. Not a realist by any stretch.
He’s a complete maroon. Is he taking into account all the 3rd world countries? Or is he actually saying within 15 years people in say....Somalia will have better lives then someone say in ..... England? No matter how much technology we give people, or how much medicine we send them, it makes no difference. Because their culture stays the same.
Smarter, maybe. Wiser, no. More virtuous (i.e. better), most definitely not.
A computer can be used to send man and probes into deep space. They can also be used to transmit higher datarate porn.
A “better mousetrap” isn’t always going to result in a better society. Different perhaps but not necessarily better.
Such an aggressive and virulent threat would be short lived because if you isolate those infected, the virus soon runs out of hosts.
A "parasite" has to be careful not to kill the host.
He’s also onboard the ZGP (Zero Population Growth) bandwagon that was big in the 70s.
If he was so big on unfettered productivity and improving lifestyles, he wouldn’t put a glass ceiling on the US tech sector by appealing to Congress for more low cost H1B visa employees.
Clearly Gates is running America like he ran his company.
Clueless, overly complex and without a rudder.
I don't think this disses Combat - Gates says it was cutting edge for the time, which it was. I read somewhere that the guy who played the Lt's part was offered Sgt Saunders but he turned it down because he wanted to be the officer. Guess he didn't know the Sarge would emerge as the main character.
Amplification and reduction. At one time we amplified good things and, consequently, reduced bad things. Now we amplify the depraved, stupid, reprobate, unhealthy and reduce decent things.
Most of these people like Gates have some need to take their money and found these huge foundations which end up being run by Lefties so that their Egos are satisfied.
The greatest Philanthropist of all time, in my opinion, was Andrew Carnegie who helped give knowledge to people rather than tell them how to live their lives.
Bill Gates? Seriously?
lol
Also, see Disneyland measles outbreak.
That’s not what he’s hinting at. The point I think he’s trying to get across, and not doing a terribly good job of it, is that we’re voluntarily exposing ourselves to more complex things. Breaking Bad is the most recent flag ship of a story telling trend sometimes called “database television”, where the story is so convoluted with so many characters popping in and popping out, and a complete disregard for the “rule of 3” (tell them what you’re going to show them, show them, tell them what they just saw) that used to dominate TV.
Database TV requires a lot of interaction from the viewer, you’ve got to think, you’ve got to pay attention to small details. An example from BB is that in the 5th season there’s a jump forward in time, they “tell” you this by Walt mentioning that it’s his birthday and he arranges the bacon he orders to form a 52, from remember that he started the series with his wife handing him a plate where the bacon said 50, and recently he had another plate that said 51. No rule of 3, just small scenes scattered across 5 1/2 years of TV and an expectation that the audience will figure it out (either on their own, or from some super fan’s website, where the “database” label comes from).
I don’t know if we’re really getting smarter or if TV executives are getting more trusting. The guys who really pioneered DB TV (JMS of Babylon 5 and David Chase of The Sopranos) talk a lot about how execs would complain they used too much subtle story telling and the audience would be confused and their constant rebuttal line was “the audience is smarter than you think”. But it is interesting to contemplate, especially when you go back and look at the old shows and see just how linear they are. The good ones are still good but they’re so simple and unchallenging to watch.
A shift in topic, I know, but try telling that to a "progressive."
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