I’ve long felt that this is part of the problem. The idea that “everyone is entitled to their own opinion” now has an addendum of “and that includes facts”. People cluster together based on belief and quickly shut out the other. There’s a lot more paranoia than ever before. Back in the day we just worried about the…
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Yep. Reagan. Fuck him straight to hell. The 1980s were the beginning of the end of this country.
Ugh I’m sorry Girl. I’m in the same place (relatively) with my family, but my field is environmental law so it’s climate change, ocean acidification, etc., that is the fuel of arguments when I see them in Texas. It is frustrating, and insulting, and I honestly have lost a lot of respect for my family in the process.
I’d agree. Ergo “at long last.” But surely this fits as the final nail.
Yes, yes, I utterly agree with you. Ugh. I lost a few friends thusly.
Ha! I read the first post and thought to myself: It start with Reagan. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks so.
This is the way the world ends
looks like it’s reached peak douchebag.
I’d argue that that happened sometime around the time when tickets exceeded 500 dollars and the Burning Man population exceeded 69K...
This is a really well-written take, I agree with you.
At long last: RIP, Burning Man.
I’m 51 too. I think a lot of the respect for science came, quite honestly, from the government’s educational efforts during the cold war. You sure as hell are going to respect people who know how to make bombs that could wreck civilization.
Times square was in no way a toilet in 1995. It just wasn’t the selfie-taking idiot tourist nightmare it is today.
Thank you for this. I’m in STEM but my mom/in laws are very conservative. We’ve gotten into red faced screaming matches in the subject of climate change in particular - they’re deniers. I feel like 10ish years ago none of them had an opinion, but now they’ve been properly programmed by Fox and Limbaugh to be…
I’m 52, and I would say it’s gotten worse in my lifetime.
I’m 51, and my guess is, it’s getting worse. Respect for science as a discipline and scientific findings is not (in my opinion) what it was in the 60s and 70s - Scientific findings that informed the EPA’s decisions in the early days were not questioned like now. Used to be, funding for the National Science Foundation…
Vox attempted to.
right? Like Huma is a bad mom for leaving her kid for an amazing and important career objective, meanwhile Michelle “Dead Eyes” Duggar has 1,000 kids and has about 5 minutes for each one per month as a result. but #jesus