Videos essay: Salman Rushdie asks if the world is entering a new dark age

[Underseer]

Trigger warning: Salman operates under the assumption that ignorance is a bad thing, which could easily cause wailing and gnashing of teeth among the more fragile conservative and libertarian forum members.

 

[untermensche]

Ending or entering?

 

[untermensche]

Distrust of so-called economic "experts" is well deserved.

How is it "experts" can have totally different opinions?

That is religion, not expertise.

 

[untermensche]

What happened during the eight years of the Obama administration was the racists could not take it. It was too much. They went into an insane frenzy.

A frenzy the racist Trump was able to exploit easily since he knew all the code words already.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

For it to be ending a dark age means it has to have been in one. What dark age?

 

[untermensche]

For it to be ending a dark age means it has to have been in one. What dark age?

Did you listen to Rushdie?

He gets into the subject because of the opinion of some Americans, a lot of them actually, that going to a University is harmful.

I wonder if some subjects have much worth but I don't think any are harmful.

 

[Underseer]

Ending or entering?

Entering. Swype hates me. Sorry for the typo.

 

[ZiprHead]

Ending or entering?

Entering. Swype hates me. Sorry for the typo.

I edited the title for you.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

For it to be ending a dark age means it has to have been in one. What dark age?

Did you listen to Rushdie?

He gets into the subject because of the opinion of some Americans, a lot of them actually, that going to a University is harmful.

I wonder if some subjects have much worth but I don't think any are harmful.

On the other hand, the right winged economists who have done so much to destroy America with their poorly thought out economic theories are all University trained. Just saying....

 

[Loren Pechtel]

For it to be ending a dark age means it has to have been in one. What dark age?

Did you listen to Rushdie?

He gets into the subject because of the opinion of some Americans, a lot of them actually, that going to a University is harmful.

I wonder if some subjects have much worth but I don't think any are harmful.

I was making a joke about a thinko that has since been fixed.