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Been there several times myself, had a great time, worked there for a while. Now the joint has gone completely mad in the past 20 years. I've cancelled it!It’s a nice place. I’ve been there a couple of times for a collective... maybe 6 weeks?
I was there in 2010 - didn’t seem mad. Too many homeless people though. Need to sort that out with better safety nets and medical care.Been there several times myself, had a great time, worked there for a while. Now the joint has gone completely mad in the past 20 years. I've cancelled it!
One thing about being homeless in LA, you have to stay warm, stay fed, and avoid the myriad of falling anvils that you never realised just appear out of the sky when there's not a roof to protect you. And although all of those dangers are true for people who call Los Angeles home, for the world's most pretentious humans, homeless people are fair game as a source of entertainment and LA was once the entertainment capital wasn't it? 2021 could be worse than 2020 over there once Joe finds the keys to the basement door?I was there in 2010 - didn’t seem mad. Too many homeless people though. Need to sort that out with better safety nets and medical care.
One thing is for certain, Hollywood is on the way to extinction. As renowned research biologists Motorhead and climate environmentalists the WWE have been known to point out, human evolution is a mystery, although 2020 has sped up its ultimate demise far quicker than i thought.
How so? I can't see it happening. They are smart enough to change. Hollywood as a place where movies are made? It takes hits because of how expensive it is but the people making the films are still in that vicinity.
Are people getting dumber?
I was in LA in 2010. Stayed at a hostel on the Walk of Fame. Woke uo early one morning and wanted some milk so walked outside looking for a store. Was gobsmacked at the amount of homeless people walking from bin to bin looking for food scraps. Then at night the Petrol station closed and homeless people flooded in from all over to setup for the night.I was there in 2010 - didn’t seem mad. Too many homeless people though. Need to sort that out with better safety nets and medical care.
In the days after 9/11, a major US radio chain called Clear Channel circulated an internal memo blacklisting certain songs deemed "lyrically questionable" in light of the attacks in NYC. It included a bunch of AC/DC songs but also, bizarrely, John Lennon's Imagine.
It seemed crazy to me at the time. But here we are 20 years later and this impulse to "protect" audiences from content deemed problematic or potentially offensive/hurtful has gone into overdrive.
Insofar as an impulse exists to suppress content to "protect" audiences, and that impulse manifests in irrational ways.I can't be bothered reading 70 odd pages to see if this has been covered but are you drawing a direct link between that blacklist of songs after 9/11 and modern day cancel culture?
I'd never thought of a direct link between those things before but I might be able to draw one if I thought about it.Insofar as an impulse exists to suppress content to "protect" audiences, and that impulse manifests in irrational ways.
I wouldn't say that's necessarily a "direct link" but the impulse is similar in both cases, although it's different people doing the suppressing.
Like I said, I didn't claim a "direct link", so much as a similarly irrational impulse to "protect audiences" from the mildest offence.I'd never thought of a direct link between those things before but I might be able to draw one if I thought about it.
Have you ever heard of a band called Dead Kennedys?
Or the PMRC - Parents Music Resource Centre?
Are people getting dumber?
At the end of last year I was talking to a year 12 who was going on to study Engineering at university. A bit later in the conversation it became apparent that he did not know his time tables. I know that is only a small part of intelligence but it seems that technology has replaced the need to think for oneself.
Been there numerous times, worked there for three months, it's a soulless place now. The best place for it in 2021 is the Pacific ocean!It’s a nice place. I’ve been there a couple of times for a collective... maybe 6 weeks?
Lazier or smarter with the time they have? If I was in the next generation, I'm not sure whether I'd want to be learning every single basic skill that I might never need to use in my life moving forward, when there's other skills I could focus on.This! People aren’t getting dumber, they’re getting lazier in what they need to learn.
Why learn times tables? We live in a world now where you have a phone on you 24/7 which can do maths for you.
I have a hard time getting my son (6years old) to even type/write if he’s searching for something on a device. Always used the microphone search when he thinks no one can hear him.