DagwoodIII

I’m not a medical historian, but he must have been of some use, otherwise we’d have never heard of him.

Just because a lot of his work has been supplanted doesn’t mean he should be condemned

Freud was a pioneer with no technology to help him.

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https://youtu.be/CxzoWxT2E2Y

The 7% Solution. Drs. Freud and Watson team up to help Sherlock Holmes overcome his cocaine addiction.

Fun movie, directed by the author of the original novel.

I can’t remember the exact name, but there’s a common process with ongoing characters where the writers find themselves making their toughest characters nicer over time.

Both Wolverine and Jack Reacher were presented as unapproachable loners at first, and both mellowed considerably over time.

Rorschach was ‘lucky’ because he got to die a noble death before being forced to become civilized.

Alan Moore talks about how he created Rorschach to be the most disgusting character imaginable. A total loser with no friends and a twisted view of the world.

He says he’s tired of all the fan boys who come up to him and tell him how Rorschach is them!

Look at OnlyFans.

A quick look shows that a few folks there are making a lot of money. $200,000 a year. Others make a good deal less.

That’s always been the case with creative folks. A few will rise to the top, and the rest are going to be amateurs.

Fine dining didn’t die when fast food was invented, and live music held its own even after recordings became a thing.

What do you think the ‘collapse’ will look like?

There’s a whole lot of nuclear and conventional weapons out there.

The Soviet Empire went down in the calmest way possible, and there were genocidal wars all over the former SSRs.

The idea that the 0.01% don’t have plans is place is naïve.

Basically, what you’re saying is the philosophical equivalent of saying music is dead because people aren’t interested in opera any more.

Try looking around a bit. A few years ago, Marvel Comics did a story line called “Civil War.” The government asked all the heroes to register. Iron Man and Spider-Man said yet, Captain America and his allies said no.

Plenty of discussions of the rights and responsibilities of the heroes.

Or watch a show called ‘Pluribus.’ Or any oldie but goody called "The Prisoner.’ Or ‘The Good Place.’

Heck, the trolley problem is on the front page here every day.

Ayn Rand was one of the best selling authors of the 20th Century, and she’s probably the best known philosophers in US history.

She died broke.

Sorry to bust your bubble, but most people don’t have a college education. In the USA, the average reading level is below middle school.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

In the UK, about 20% of the population is considered functionally illiterate.

And even of those who do, how many actually took a philosophy class? And of those who passed, how many have read a philosophy book in the past year?

Someone suggested I get a book called “Discover what You Are Best At.”

I always thought I just hated working; the book showed me that there were a lot of jobs I’d never considered trying for. I picked out one course and got a good career out of it.

I can’t remember who it was who told me, so I’m sure they never thought of me again

What makes you think people ever paid attention to thinkers?

Most people can’t explain what philosophy is, much less name five philosophers.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense to talk about the authors’ styles if you haven’t actually read them.

It’s funny that in the classic Libertarian novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” the rule free society only works because there are no guns and literally everything is controlled by a single giant computer.

Objectivism creator Ayn Rand ended up on welfare after she lacked the will power to give up smoking.

Need I say more?

nsfw

They asked Stan Lee about digital comic books.

He said comics are like boobs, he’d rather have one in his hand than on a screen.

I meant printed volumes.

Don’t steal books form the library.

They put out the whole comic series in four big printed volumes after the TV show came out. The entire run of the comic.

Get them from your local library; they are worth a read, and if you get them from the library he doesn’t get any more money.

Sorry, but read “Walk To The end Of The World” by Suzy McKee Charnas,

Thus proving my point.

In “Death’s Master” the Demon Prince refers to the Lord of Delusions as “uncousin.”

In the ‘Sandman’ comics there are a lot of little cut-away stories, just like the tale of the teardrop necklace in “Night’s Master.”