Funny. I have seen several of his videos, and they are funny. The Brit sense of Humor.
Hope everyone had a good 4th. Except for the poor guy (Hunter?) that lost his happy dust.
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
Regular readers of Neo’s blog know that one of her themes has been political change, and how hard it is to change someone’s mind.
Those who are interested in that theme might want to take a look at what Arnold Kling has just posted to his substack (https://tinyurl.com/4xb6shc3).
Here’s the first paragraph of Kling’s post:
“I believe that people obtain their political preferences from role models. That is, there are people you wish to emulate and gain approval from, and you adapt your political beliefs to align with those people.”
It sounds like simple common sense, nothing profound, but the implications are more serious than they might seem at first glance. Kling also notes that the development of a pervasive internet, and the rise of social media, have changed people’s selection of role models. Again, it sounds like common sense, but we see the consequences all around us. Rational arguments, based on evidence, have become even more pointless than they ever were. As Kling says, “[w]e decide what to believe by deciding who to believe.” It’s no wonder that left-wing journalists, and the deep state, have screamed so hard about their loss of control at Twitter.
Terrific video.
I spent the whole afternoon with a community celebration that had music and dancing. While I did wear ordinary clothing that had the red, white, and blue colors; I felt out of place because I didn’t have any cool flag based clothing.
I recommend an interesting book about this topic.
“The Last King of America,” by Andrew Roberts. He is an excellent historian and writes well. His theory of George’s madness is bipolar disorder but I am skeptical. Bipolar does not have such long episodes. Anyway, it is a great source of history from the Brit side.
I enjoyed the video– but I’m surprised our new citizen didn’t mention the British invasion during the War of 1812 as well as the Beatles. After all, Major General Robert Ross captured and burned Washington in the summer of 1814 (just think what Nancy Pelosi would have done to him!)– although we did get our national anthem and a new hero (Andrew Jackson) out of that war.
‘Nother fun fact: the War of 1812 was the last time sailors of the USN boarded an enemy vessel on the high seas in wartime until June 4, 1944, when the Navy’s Task Group 22.3 captured the Kriegsmarine’s U-505 off the coast of Africa, boarded the disabled vessel, and towed it to Bermuda (there is a famous photo of the sub under tow with the Stars and Stripes flying on top of the conning tower). The sub was eventually given to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, carefully restored, and opened to visitors as a museum ship. It’s well worth a visit if you’re in the Chicago area and have the time.
I visited the U-Boat at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Definitely worth the trip. I saw it around the same time I saw “Das Boot” which made the whole visit that much more interesting.
I do wish some museums, especially ones like the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, offered child-free hours certain days of the month. It is a pain in the *** to have to deal with hordes of children. And the adults accompanying them all think that the children have the right to push in front of people in order to access everything and anything in the museum. I first thought of this about thirty-five years ago, when children (and adults) had MUCH better manners. It is gotten so much worse in the years since.
Related story: About twenty-five years ago, I went to the NY Museum of Natural History to see an exhibit on pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and parasites. It was very interesting and informative. But there were a gazillion children, screaming their way through it, pushing and shoving to get in front of everything. My one comfort was that I likely sent a number of home with their own souvenir pathogen — I was sick as a dog when I went. (I went because the exhibit I really wanted to see was closing and it was my last chance to see it.)
it wouldn’t be so bad if adults taught kids how to behave in public. Though to be fair, a lot of adults don’t know how to behave in public.
I went to a high-end restaurant and saw two couples along with their kids having dinner. The kids were sitting with their feet on the chairs, playing GameBoy things. The adults were all slouched in their chairs, and one of them put his feet up on an empty chair! An unfortunate display of table manners followed, unsurprisingly. By both kids and adults. Ugh.
Djelem Djelem – Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dW3H9yFSU
My Best Friends, my Other Brother, was on the Carrier that captured the sub. He has visited it often.
USS GUADALCANAL CVE 60. I have been on both the U-505, and USS COBIA. The USN had to make our fleet subs capable of carrying out patrols against Japan from the US if necessary, the COBIA is a much larger, and more civilized way to go to war.
Re: Indy 5 / Disney / Lucasfilm
While getting some good reviews over the weekend, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” performed at rock bottom estimates of expected box office performance, which means the film is predicted to lose a few hundred million dollars. With other box office flops, it adds up.
Rumors have it, and given the circumstances I see no reason to doubt, that Disney and Lucasfilm called in high-level execs from their vacations for emergency meetings.
However, which way the Mouse and Lucas jump is a pretty complicated question.
Between their woke commitments and their reluctance to be pushed around by toxic white male fans, it won’t be easy for them to eat crow and go back to making good family entertainment. (Arguably, their current young staffs wouldn’t know how to do so, even if they wanted to.)
On the other hand, hemorrhaging blood on the bottom line is a problem too.
Decisions, decisions….
Perhaps an even more ominous development for Disney/Lucasfilm is that Indy 5 had almost no audience in the 15-34 age bracket.
Never mind the woke vs unwoke dynamic. If they can’t sell to the young, there is no future audience in the pipeline.
Liked the video.
As for George III, I once read some historian’s take that he was the most successful monarch in British history. Apparently, the dustup with the American colonies was his only L. And we didn’t so much win as they finally decided to forfeit.
It seems that the Brits were in the midst of a world war in which everyone else was on the other side. Given such an ample supply of enemies to engage, we just weren’t high enough up the list of priorities and if we weren’t going to fork up the taxes, what was the point of spending the money messing with us?
And that reminds me of the accountant/historian who wrote a book explaining that all of world history can be explained as a function of taxation. He was probably correct about that. Follow the money.
Cornflour,
thank you so much for the link to Kling. Good stuff. I love his take that people cite as important those issues which justify their preferred candidate and party. It’s not the issues which lead to candidate but rather the opposite.
Some minor quibbles with his analysis. 1. The role models tend to be parents. The vast majority of us vote for the party our parents did. Some people do change when they get to be adults and the cultural role model becomes more important in that change. I think the biggest influence of cultural role models is reinforcing previously established tribal party affiliation.
2. I think that his analysis applies with a great deal more explanatory power for Democrats than Republicans. Most GOP voters hate the GOP. They don’t draw any sense of moral status from the way they vote. They don’t define themselves by their politics. Most vote based on their revulsion over everything the Democrats stand for.
Very different for most Democrats.
btw — Kevin Phillips’ work in the Emerging Republican Majority demonstrates the power of family and the national/religious cultural traditions in voting tendencies. Swedes vote differently than Scotch/Irish. Have for generations. Don’t expect that to change.
Been watching this guy’s videos for a couple of years. Love his self-depreciating humor.
Funny. I have seen several of his videos, and they are funny. The Brit sense of Humor.
Hope everyone had a good 4th. Except for the poor guy (Hunter?) that lost his happy dust.
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
Regular readers of Neo’s blog know that one of her themes has been political change, and how hard it is to change someone’s mind.
Those who are interested in that theme might want to take a look at what Arnold Kling has just posted to his substack (https://tinyurl.com/4xb6shc3).
Here’s the first paragraph of Kling’s post:
“I believe that people obtain their political preferences from role models. That is, there are people you wish to emulate and gain approval from, and you adapt your political beliefs to align with those people.”
It sounds like simple common sense, nothing profound, but the implications are more serious than they might seem at first glance. Kling also notes that the development of a pervasive internet, and the rise of social media, have changed people’s selection of role models. Again, it sounds like common sense, but we see the consequences all around us. Rational arguments, based on evidence, have become even more pointless than they ever were. As Kling says, “[w]e decide what to believe by deciding who to believe.” It’s no wonder that left-wing journalists, and the deep state, have screamed so hard about their loss of control at Twitter.
Terrific video.
I spent the whole afternoon with a community celebration that had music and dancing. While I did wear ordinary clothing that had the red, white, and blue colors; I felt out of place because I didn’t have any cool flag based clothing.
I recommend an interesting book about this topic.
“The Last King of America,” by Andrew Roberts. He is an excellent historian and writes well. His theory of George’s madness is bipolar disorder but I am skeptical. Bipolar does not have such long episodes. Anyway, it is a great source of history from the Brit side.
I enjoyed the video– but I’m surprised our new citizen didn’t mention the British invasion during the War of 1812 as well as the Beatles. After all, Major General Robert Ross captured and burned Washington in the summer of 1814 (just think what Nancy Pelosi would have done to him!)– although we did get our national anthem and a new hero (Andrew Jackson) out of that war.
‘Nother fun fact: the War of 1812 was the last time sailors of the USN boarded an enemy vessel on the high seas in wartime until June 4, 1944, when the Navy’s Task Group 22.3 captured the Kriegsmarine’s U-505 off the coast of Africa, boarded the disabled vessel, and towed it to Bermuda (there is a famous photo of the sub under tow with the Stars and Stripes flying on top of the conning tower). The sub was eventually given to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, carefully restored, and opened to visitors as a museum ship. It’s well worth a visit if you’re in the Chicago area and have the time.
I visited the U-Boat at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Definitely worth the trip. I saw it around the same time I saw “Das Boot” which made the whole visit that much more interesting.
I do wish some museums, especially ones like the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, offered child-free hours certain days of the month. It is a pain in the *** to have to deal with hordes of children. And the adults accompanying them all think that the children have the right to push in front of people in order to access everything and anything in the museum. I first thought of this about thirty-five years ago, when children (and adults) had MUCH better manners. It is gotten so much worse in the years since.
Related story: About twenty-five years ago, I went to the NY Museum of Natural History to see an exhibit on pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and parasites. It was very interesting and informative. But there were a gazillion children, screaming their way through it, pushing and shoving to get in front of everything. My one comfort was that I likely sent a number of home with their own souvenir pathogen — I was sick as a dog when I went. (I went because the exhibit I really wanted to see was closing and it was my last chance to see it.)
it wouldn’t be so bad if adults taught kids how to behave in public. Though to be fair, a lot of adults don’t know how to behave in public.
I went to a high-end restaurant and saw two couples along with their kids having dinner. The kids were sitting with their feet on the chairs, playing GameBoy things. The adults were all slouched in their chairs, and one of them put his feet up on an empty chair! An unfortunate display of table manners followed, unsurprisingly. By both kids and adults. Ugh.
Djelem Djelem – Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dW3H9yFSU
Amarisi – Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpqXHpm6cEE
Sandra Sangiao: http://www.brspecial.com/spanish-vocalist-barcelona-gypsy-balkan-orchestra-sandra-sangiao.shtml
Sandra is a ray of sunshine.
My Best Friends, my Other Brother, was on the Carrier that captured the sub. He has visited it often.
USS GUADALCANAL CVE 60. I have been on both the U-505, and USS COBIA. The USN had to make our fleet subs capable of carrying out patrols against Japan from the US if necessary, the COBIA is a much larger, and more civilized way to go to war.
Re: Indy 5 / Disney / Lucasfilm
While getting some good reviews over the weekend, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” performed at rock bottom estimates of expected box office performance, which means the film is predicted to lose a few hundred million dollars. With other box office flops, it adds up.
Rumors have it, and given the circumstances I see no reason to doubt, that Disney and Lucasfilm called in high-level execs from their vacations for emergency meetings.
–“Fireworks ERUPT at Disney Meeting Over Indy 5 Box Office FAILURE | Iger FURIOUS at [Kathleen Kennedy] Source Says!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umm8oZh8hAw
Makes sense to me. Disney has taken terrible hits to its revenues and stock price (cut in half from its peak in Jan, 2021).
https://search.brave.com/search?q=disney+stock&source=desktop&rh_type=st&range=5y
However, which way the Mouse and Lucas jump is a pretty complicated question.
Between their woke commitments and their reluctance to be pushed around by toxic white male fans, it won’t be easy for them to eat crow and go back to making good family entertainment. (Arguably, their current young staffs wouldn’t know how to do so, even if they wanted to.)
On the other hand, hemorrhaging blood on the bottom line is a problem too.
Decisions, decisions….
Perhaps an even more ominous development for Disney/Lucasfilm is that Indy 5 had almost no audience in the 15-34 age bracket.
Never mind the woke vs unwoke dynamic. If they can’t sell to the young, there is no future audience in the pipeline.
Liked the video.
As for George III, I once read some historian’s take that he was the most successful monarch in British history. Apparently, the dustup with the American colonies was his only L. And we didn’t so much win as they finally decided to forfeit.
It seems that the Brits were in the midst of a world war in which everyone else was on the other side. Given such an ample supply of enemies to engage, we just weren’t high enough up the list of priorities and if we weren’t going to fork up the taxes, what was the point of spending the money messing with us?
And that reminds me of the accountant/historian who wrote a book explaining that all of world history can be explained as a function of taxation. He was probably correct about that. Follow the money.
Cornflour,
thank you so much for the link to Kling. Good stuff. I love his take that people cite as important those issues which justify their preferred candidate and party. It’s not the issues which lead to candidate but rather the opposite.
Some minor quibbles with his analysis. 1. The role models tend to be parents. The vast majority of us vote for the party our parents did. Some people do change when they get to be adults and the cultural role model becomes more important in that change. I think the biggest influence of cultural role models is reinforcing previously established tribal party affiliation.
2. I think that his analysis applies with a great deal more explanatory power for Democrats than Republicans. Most GOP voters hate the GOP. They don’t draw any sense of moral status from the way they vote. They don’t define themselves by their politics. Most vote based on their revulsion over everything the Democrats stand for.
Very different for most Democrats.
btw — Kevin Phillips’ work in the Emerging Republican Majority demonstrates the power of family and the national/religious cultural traditions in voting tendencies. Swedes vote differently than Scotch/Irish. Have for generations. Don’t expect that to change.
Been watching this guy’s videos for a couple of years. Love his self-depreciating humor.
https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1677030399279505408