The king is dead, long live the king.
But does anybody care anymore?
If you were turned off by The Force Awakens (which, contrary to what Kennedy says, was disliked for being too much like the OT), it's been a decade. If Last Jedi killed your fandom it's been 8 years. I don't know how you can sustain constant hope and disappointment with an IP this long. I tapped out mentally in-theatre with TLJ. Every time I wanted to jump back in because they seem to have figured it out (e.g. when the reviews for Mandalorian were good) they quickly reverted to form.
Whoever is still with it is the new audience and they've made their peace with Kennedy or like her content. The mega-haters who were praying on Kennedy's downfall have to have tapped out. I skimmed the channels of some of the usual suspects and the comments are basically fatalist. In part because they seem to hate Filoni too for some reason, but also because the game of wishing her gone has gone on too long to be amusing.
But does it mean Star Wars is dead in the water? Probably not, Andor season 2 debuted with record viewership numbers.
Look at what you just said: Star Wars ushered in the blockbuster era! Even the Prequels maintained a $650 million floor. And we're all coping that one TV show out of all the material produced did well on TV.
We really need to stop talking about education like we're just educating ancient nobles' children.
We treat knowledge as goal not as a tool. Tell the little ones that at the end of the course they will know how to make total synthesis of cocaine and you will have the most attentive chemistry class in the history of the world. And they will do their homework without even being assigned.
This sounds like a hack Michelle Pfeiffer would try to educate inner city children.
What would actually happen is that the kids would think you're cool but the minute they had to apply any of the things you said in a more boring, sterile environment (and of course they must) a bunch would get tired and move on to something significantly more stimulating. I don't know what schools you went to but plenty of kids are fucking lazy and need the tripwire of mandatory homework. Plenty of kids would be hooked on every word in one class and then not care about another.
You may have been particularly intelligent and conscientious, most aren't. Unless we're talking purely about schools that cut those people out, kids need to be forced to push through their boredom because work will be boring.
Tanista
2d ago
Her run-ins with the law and rampant rebelliousness in high school appear to have been a phase. The damage that phase did to her life prospects (like missing out on college) seems to be more permanent.
We weren't really rich (more middle class) and being black they probably blended in better, but apparently my sister's friends got a bit weird when they realized she was slumming it. Which...I kinda get. We found it frustrating too.
There's obviously no way to figure this out, but I truly wonder what race relations would be like if all racial agitating was treated like the N-word and limited to American descendants of slaves (and Injuns and railway workers)
It has to be infuriating to hear this shit from not just from ethnic groups that are richer than the white median, but from people like Ilhan Omar who ran cause they fucked up their countries.
Tanista
3d ago
No, that was the Ford response
Tanista
3d ago
You don’t see the people who were both dumber and less hardworking than you; they’re in a different social class entirely.
When you think about it, this is a pretty succinct explanation for a lot of the failure modes the current elite drive us into. Educational discipline, homelessness, crime....the biggest failures are from dealing with truly judgment proof. The people who wouldn't be in college, whether because of low IQ or conscientiousness or other such traits.
In places where compulsion is really the main option and people find it distasteful or immoral , things fall apart.
Tanista
3d ago
Mean IQ during grades 1-4 tattooed to the forehead in childhood?
Why would you need any of this? All you need is tracking (disliked by many for reasons @FtttG touches on) and the kids will put together the pecking order. We figured it out anyway in my school but it was tiny, 300 people total.
Post high school is a bit of a problem I guess. But if you had IQ tests and there was no awkwardness around you can figure it out. Thing is, I'm not sure we'd want to. It matters less in more selective schools and I don't know that people who run institutions want to be publicizing which programs actually capture the least mental horsepower.
And sure, the halo effect exists, but clothes, grooming and physical features were always the stereotypical weak point of hardcore nerds
Yes, the high-IQ sperg archetype is the clearest exception, which helps OP's point.
You would have to abolish democracy first. They will never do this of their own free will.
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