Up From The Memory Hole

9 Replies to “Up From The Memory Hole”

1. uhuh. lve lived a somewhat similar number of experiences. generally speaking, l know a ‘thing’ is *possible* because lve done it, the antagonist claims its ‘not possible’. at which point now l give it one try if it holds, good we got the solution, if not they do a charlieross aka theirloss and l walk away

2. Narrator – “Charlie Rose did know people like that”.
   His job title was essentially ‘Professional Gaslighter’.

   1. Hardcore leftist ideologues like Charlie Rose have to pretend not to know things. Otherwise the scales might fall from their eyes and they might SEE again. His DENIAL is death. His intellectual death. Doesn’t matter how softly he speaks … in haltingly haughty tones.

      PS … I have always loved and admired Paglia

3. There is a huge difference between learning and dogma.

   If you ever have the opportunity to talk to a current day University student, you will discover that they are schooled in parroting dogmatic beliefs, but have little curiosity or understanding of almost anything beyond what amounts to a set of religious tenets.

   The most striking thing about them is their ignorance on almost any topic, and their profound disinterest in finding things out.

   To them, general knowledge of literature, history, science or even basic technology is not only not worth pursuing, but dangerous, because much of reality is antithetical to what their world view compels them to believe.

   They can’t read Shakespeare because he was a privileged white male with an archaic perspective; they can’t read history because it’s the history of white oppression and colonialism; and they won’t learn about math because it was co-opted from the east by western thinkers and is ultimately about imposing western thinking on the underprivileged.

   And they can’t type and don’t understand computers because they don’t think they should need to.

   Their minds are closed to new things, and broken by years of conditioning in reconciling cognitive dissonance.

   1. You’ve basically described an idiot.

      1. Even after high-school, most students are ruined for life. The level of ignorance is breathtaking.

         I taught introductory programming at Algonquin College in Ottawa for a term. The students routinely lost their work because they couldn’t understand the difference between the College cloud storage and their thumb drive. They were in a technology program, but almost none of them had heard of Boolean math, or logical operators and conditional statements, and they couldn’t understand why I kept trying to explain these things to them. They seemed to think I was tricking them, and couldn’t understand why you would type in words when you wanted to do things with graphics.

         The few kids who genuinely knew a little about programming were gnashing their teeth with frustration before the end of the first class.

         Most thought the metal box on their desks was a “hard drive”, and they all typed with their thumbs and index fingers. It was heartbreaking watching the poor things struggle away at their keyboards.

         “Ah, Sir, do we have to type ALL of this in? It must be, like, 50 lines long.”
         “Yes you do”.
         “Isn’t there, like, a program to do this for you?”
         “No. This is the program. You’re writing a program. That’s how it works: you type it in to the computer”.

         I abandoned my lesson plan, and had to be content with doing all the coding for them, and letting them make their own graphics.

         I’m sure that that if my former students are still involved in technology, they now insist on using AI to code for them.

4. Camille’s conversation with Jordan Peterson was quite enjoyable, a welcome “cleanse” from what we’ve been subjected to especially in this past decade.

5. Ah, Camille — one of the few leftists I could respect (alas, she was still trying to create an opportunity for an essentially marxist discourse even in this clip; thus was her downfall; too bad, quite liked some of her lectures).
   Never ever cede an inch to marxism; it wants to destroy you and will. You cannot ‘fix’ a marxist dialectic — fruit from the poisoned tree and all that.

   Defense of the Western canon and classical critical thinking technique is what got me black-balled from my job in academia…about 20 years after this video…right on time. Ah well, it was reasonably good while it lasted.

6. 30 years later, America’s largest city is about to elect an Islamic Communist as mayor representing Democrats. I still think he doesn’t win, but we’ll see. Canada’s largest city elected a Communist mayor. I don’t call it suicidal empathy it’s literally cheerleading your own death. Stupid leftists celebrating the murder of someone on their political opposite don’t know it, but that’s what they are doing.