I was a Wikipedian for about thirteen or fourteen years. I’d say it broadly well represents what interests religiously-unaffiliated men under 40 and usually goes with the consensus of professors of elite secular Universities on those topics. If you have confidence in the Ivy Leagues and prefer the company of young irreligious men it works okay I guess. You get a lot on sports, military stuff, video-games, animated sitcoms, sexual minorities, and such. Math and science are usually well done. Of late it’s become much more respectable on women and I played some role in that.
Still if a subject is not of interest to “young irreligious men”, say a large Christian denomination in Brazil or something, you may get articles written by evangelists or debunkers or a feud of both. Politics or social issues are also going to trend a bit “What do Ivy League educated secularist people think?” unless they are social issues Ivy League secularists don’t really care about.
The old encyclopedias I think tended to be less willing to insult members of minority religions or cultures than Wikipedia is. (I mean before they started veering to Ivy League deference they had articles basically saying Black people were intellectually inferior.)
It’s interesting because I think the movie works better today than it maybe did then. It’s like it was predicting Google, or at least Ask Jeeves, forty or fifty years before it happened.
Possibly. I saw this minister do three sermons and you had to guess which one was his rather than AI. I did so because the one that was his had more personal details of his life and might have been more meandering.
There’s nothing really personal about Eno in this. And it seems fairly straightforward even if the end statement is a bit odd.
(AI might have advanced enough now it also adds digressions about its alleged spouse or kids before pulling it into the message at hand…or maybe not pulling it in.)
Yeah. I might know him as much for that as anything.
Felix’s father converted to Christianity and so they were the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy family. Various reasons for that but his Dad looks to have once said, “There can no more be a Christian Mendelssohn than there can be a Jewish Confucius”. Moses Mendelssohn being such a huge name in the Jewish world or public image.
Eh. There are plenty of Black people who complained about political correctness and now wokeness. Some of them are not even really on the Right.
My memory is some Black people, back in the 1990s, complained about political correctness because they felt it was superficial. That it was more about alleviating white guilt or meaningless victories than doing the work to improve the lives or dignity of the Black community. (Or as one character in “Do the Right Thing” put it “doing something positive for our community.”) Likewise I’ve heard similar complaints, by many Black writers, on the book “White Fragility.” Complaining that it’s more about white psychotherapy than something of benefit to BIPOC communities.
Granted this cartoon is more on gender, but on that I think I see a great deal of women who are Right-leaning. I knew some women who objected to the “MeToo” movement as they feared it would make men scared of women at work and thereby make it harder to be a working woman. Or who felt much of the “face” of the MeToo movement was too upper-class and college educated. That it didn’t understand women without college degrees who worked in say service industries. (Where being called “Honey” might be something to tolerate because you need the job to afford even minimum healthcare and housing.)
He also had no problem saying, “Yummy yummy for my fat little pig tummy” on Gravity Falls. So he’s willing to be fun too. (Not that I’m totally uncritical of him.)
“The examination of various spiral nebulae, especially as carried out by Edwin W. Hubble at the Mount Wilson Observatory, has led to the significant conclusion, presented with all due reservations, that these distant systems of galaxies tend to move away from one another with such velocity that, in the space of 1,300 million years, the distance between such spiral nebulae is doubled. If we look back into the past at the time required for this process of the “expanding universe,” it follows that, from one to ten billion years ago, the matter of the spiral nebulae was compressed into a relatively restricted space, at the time the cosmic processes had their beginning.” Pope Pius XII in 1951.
Okay it’s more like 13 billion years, but still not as far off as six thousand.
I was a Wikipedian for about thirteen or fourteen years. I’d say it broadly well represents what interests religiously-unaffiliated men under 40 and usually goes with the consensus of professors of elite secular Universities on those topics. If you have confidence in the Ivy Leagues and prefer the company of young irreligious men it works okay I guess. You get a lot on sports, military stuff, video-games, animated sitcoms, sexual minorities, and such. Math and science are usually well done. Of late it’s become much more respectable on women and I played some role in that.
Still if a subject is not of interest to “young irreligious men”, say a large Christian denomination in Brazil or something, you may get articles written by evangelists or debunkers or a feud of both. Politics or social issues are also going to trend a bit “What do Ivy League educated secularist people think?” unless they are social issues Ivy League secularists don’t really care about.
The old encyclopedias I think tended to be less willing to insult members of minority religions or cultures than Wikipedia is. (I mean before they started veering to Ivy League deference they had articles basically saying Black people were intellectually inferior.)