Most of those terms were already familiar to me but a couple were not. The Dunning Krueger effect has the perfect poster child in the felon. He says he ‘knows more than the generals, or the architects, or the doctors’, when in reality he knows very little about anything unless it’s retribution.
So, is the East Wing Demolition an inverted Red Flag, a Reichstag Fire with known perps, simply Accelerationism, or just another ‘Helpful Term’ to describe the immoral chaos that so many choose to ignore? Perhaps the question is only a pesky conundrum from a Toxic Empathy survivor, climbing out of an Uncanny Valley with a Dunning-Kruger hangover 🤕.
Well, Mark, I'd say we're all being 6-7ed under the combined weight of items 1-12 on your list. (Though I do not have a teenager handy to ask what "6-7" actually means.)
6-7 is an apparently meaningless utterance that is a random response to whatever the utterer wants to respond to. It's main use is to annoy older people. At least that's what a high school teacher friend says.
Brandolini's Law sounds like a variation on an aphorism often attributed to Mark Twain but whose sense has a much longer history. It has several variations, e.g., "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on." Keep in mind that the variations all predate the internet, and at least one of them predates the telegraph. More about it here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
"the worst American political crisis since the Civil War". With all due respect this is laughable. Vietnam alone dwarfs whatever "crisis" we're talking about. By the way, what crisis is that?
Uh, "Vietnam" was a war and a foreign policy disaster but "political crisis"? No. It did lead to an ever-growing opposition movement, which the FBI predictably infiltrated and tried t subvert -- as it was already doing to the civil rights movement. However, Congress did not shut down for an extended period, and at the end of March 1968 President Johnson announced that he wouldn't run for re-election. On April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. On June 5 Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot after winning the California primary. These were traumatic events for sure, but they didn't cause a "political crisis." No one doubted that LBJ would vacate the White House after Nixon won the election in November.
You are rather making my point. Assassinations of political figures, presidents forced from office, and other "traumatic events" like urban riots and well-organized political extremists make today's "crisis" look like Sesame Street.
Most of those terms were already familiar to me but a couple were not. The Dunning Krueger effect has the perfect poster child in the felon. He says he ‘knows more than the generals, or the architects, or the doctors’, when in reality he knows very little about anything unless it’s retribution.
So, is the East Wing Demolition an inverted Red Flag, a Reichstag Fire with known perps, simply Accelerationism, or just another ‘Helpful Term’ to describe the immoral chaos that so many choose to ignore? Perhaps the question is only a pesky conundrum from a Toxic Empathy survivor, climbing out of an Uncanny Valley with a Dunning-Kruger hangover 🤕.
Well, Mark, I'd say we're all being 6-7ed under the combined weight of items 1-12 on your list. (Though I do not have a teenager handy to ask what "6-7" actually means.)
As far as 6-7 goes, near as I can tell is it means pretty much nothing--it's just something to confound adults, lol. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SIX+SEVEN&page=3
...Which makes it a fitting epithet for our lackluster times, wouldn't you say?
6-7 is an apparently meaningless utterance that is a random response to whatever the utterer wants to respond to. It's main use is to annoy older people. At least that's what a high school teacher friend says.
Brandolini's Law sounds like a variation on an aphorism often attributed to Mark Twain but whose sense has a much longer history. It has several variations, e.g., "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on." Keep in mind that the variations all predate the internet, and at least one of them predates the telegraph. More about it here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Great information, as usual. Regarding 6-7, just ask your grandsons, then report back.
"the worst American political crisis since the Civil War". With all due respect this is laughable. Vietnam alone dwarfs whatever "crisis" we're talking about. By the way, what crisis is that?
Uh, "Vietnam" was a war and a foreign policy disaster but "political crisis"? No. It did lead to an ever-growing opposition movement, which the FBI predictably infiltrated and tried t subvert -- as it was already doing to the civil rights movement. However, Congress did not shut down for an extended period, and at the end of March 1968 President Johnson announced that he wouldn't run for re-election. On April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. On June 5 Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot after winning the California primary. These were traumatic events for sure, but they didn't cause a "political crisis." No one doubted that LBJ would vacate the White House after Nixon won the election in November.
You are rather making my point. Assassinations of political figures, presidents forced from office, and other "traumatic events" like urban riots and well-organized political extremists make today's "crisis" look like Sesame Street.