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Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43
The US actor, 43, was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago but never made the news public.www.bbc.com
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Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43
The US actor, 43, was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago but never made the news public.www.bbc.com
Thats because On this, like with most other things, you speak from a place of misunderstanding. The man was one of the best we had at understand power dynamics and our relation to them. Truly a great loss for society. A staunch defender of judiasm and of a jewish homeland. Or as you might describe him, an antisemite. Here's a very instructive video that you should watch and i know you wont truly ingest.I enjoyed his book on bullshit jobs, but too say he was an intellectual giant is pushing it....a lot.
Thats because On this, like with most other things, you speak from a place of misunderstanding. The man was one of the best we had at understand power dynamics and our relation to them. Truly a great loss for society. A staunch defender of judiasm and of a jewish homeland. Or as you might describe him, an antisemite. Here's a very instructive video that you should watch and i know you wont truly ingest.
...unlike your good self who is very comfortable equating Zionism with Nazism. You may, or may not be an anti-semite Rambo, but you do hold anti-semitic views.
Oh and by the way, try and resist the urge to pollute every thread with your conspiratorial bullshit. This belongs in the Politics thread.
of course you'd be sarcastic about a man who spent his entire life delving into the actual causes of problems in society and ways to fix them. its much easier to sit behind your computer and claim your lived existence is the epitome of the human condition. i'm sure there's a guardian op-ed you'll be able to find from 6 years ago that says Graeber was a secret nazi as well.Revelatory...!!!
I might pick that up, it's an interesting topic. I read The Craftsman by Sennet a couple of years ago, enjoyed it a lot.Fair point. I enjoyed Matthew Crawford's The Case For Working With Your Hands, but he has a tendency to philosophical musings which upsets the flow of the book a bit...
of course you'd be sarcastic about a man who spent his entire life delving into the actual causes of problems in society and ways to fix them. its much easier to sit behind your computer and claim your lived existence is the epitome of the human condition. i'm sure there's a guardian op-ed you'll be able to find from 6 years ago that says Graeber was a secret nazi as well.
got it, so dont hate the man just everything he stands for.No, I was being sarcastic about the tweet you posted which confuses banality with profundity.
As said, I've read one of Graebers book's and enjoyed it. I have/had no animus towards him whatsoever...
got it, so dont hate the man just everything he stands for.
I rewatched all the Avengers a few years ago. She was top quality. 82 years old - cancer.Diana Rigg
Okay if President Trump gets to fill the vacancy and Obama didn’t get to with a year remaining in his term then something is truly fubar.
Yes. French postwar chanteuse who hung around with the left Bank set - Sartre, Camus etc.Nobody picked up Juliette Grecco, French actress and ex-girlfriend of Miles Davis.
which also marked the end of my career in higher education...although I didn't realize it at the time.
I was an assistant professor. I had already earned the Ph.D. degree at UCLA and did a post-doctoral year at the University of Texas. I was hoping to parlay that into an assistant professorship there. Didn't happen, so I took a job as an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech. Early in my third year I was denied tenure, mostly because some of the faculty disliked my right-of-center politics. I think there was also some envy because I had outpublished many of the faculty--no great feat in that hive of drones! By that time the academic job market was absolutely saturated, and I never returned to the Halls of Academe. In hindsight, with all the demented political correctness regnant there these days, it was probably just as well.
You had a lucky escape...
At one time I really fancied a life in academia as a college lecturer or professor. But once in higher education, it really turned me off. It dawned on me it was a political game. And back then, I was too earnest to engage.
When I passed the CASM my supervisor wanted me to continue to a doctorate. Couldn't wait to get the fuck outta there to be honest...LOL
One of my kids godfather's is and the missus's extended circle of friends are top heavy academics (with the exception of an artist). They all share same credentials: super duper PhD status and yet, they've got nothing I would expect house/apartment wise to reflect that. They've all been divorced mind you. And one of them is a heir of Karl Marx and there are a lot of apartments, holiday homes, etc., that his weighty tomes have funded and handed down. And yet they live semidetached mediocrity, until they inherit their allotted share aged 62, or whatever it is.
Needless to say, they all think I am a cunt.
I sometimes have had the feeling that if it weren't for the American cult of "college" and fetishism over degrees, I might have made my way through the world just about as well if I have gone out into the world to seek my fortune when I graduated from prep school at the age of 17!
I have long felt that if we had good high schools that imparted basic verbal and mathematical skills and a modicum of general knowledge and culture, we could shut down 70% of our colleges and universities and not suffer any great loss.
No fees to be paid back then. Quite a generous grant paid to students and opportunities to earn more in the holidays. Full employment and graduates earned more than non graduates.My formative years were the back-end of the 80s in the UK and going to university still had a sense of status and privilege. Educating Rita captured the belief that a university degree would free you from the toiling classes and you would rise above working class culture and escape it completely. Now it's the norm. Back then it was still all rather liberating. Somehow a university degree, in whatever subject, would guarantee you a job for life in a management role and you would never have to suffer the indignity of being unemployed, or a crappy job. Now all of that's gone.
Many skills and subjects are best taught on the job. Accountancy for one.
No fees to be paid back then. Quite a generous grant paid to students and opportunities to earn more in the holidays. Full employment and graduates earned more than non graduates.
Then Blair decided an arbitrary figure of 50% of the population should be graduates. Education became one huge racket.
No fees to be paid back then. Quite a generous grant paid to students and opportunities to earn more in the holidays. Full employment and graduates earned more than non graduates.
Then Blair decided an arbitrary figure of 50% of the population should be graduates. Education became one huge racket.
Tuition fees were free, grants were means tested.