Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell should show some mettle and do a podcast on the history of the 2008 global financial crisis. No one cares what they think about Reconstruction.
@matthewstoller Does Obama have the credentials to discuss history with this level of authority? This is a serious question. Or does his slow voice of gravitas just enable him and his fans to just assume that he does?
people need to start understanding that this future does not contain music, or film, or art - just the endless whirring and hum of the machines that pump out refractions of the past, and the machines that click on them
@James_Kabala@pschofie79 Wait, what? Do you think that average 6 year olds don't know about weddings by the time they're like, 3? Weddings are as natural on this earth as funerals. Whether it's friends, family, babysitters, neighbors, books, movies or TV they know about weddings from a *very* young age.
@James_Kabala@pschofie79 Also, children do not like being UNinvited from parties, and they know that if their parents are going to a wedding they have fundamentally been UNinvited from a party.
@James_Kabala@pschofie79 As the father of a six year old: yes, they love to attend parties where they and everyone else gets to dress up, eat a bunch of fun food, drink a bunch of fun drinks, and dance past their bedtimes.
@matthewstoller This at face seems good? Is his replacement really an Engineer or was he an Accountant that they put in the engineering department for so long that now he's a Common Law Engineer?