Disney VP: Disney Discriminates Against White Male Writers and Actors
Michael Giordano, VP and Team Lead at Disney explains on hidden camera that white male writers and actors need not apply at Disney.
George Carlin’s Position on People and Groups
The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don’t belong; it doesn’t include me, and it never has. No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
George Carlin, Preface to "3 x Carlin" (2008)
How to Keep the Poor Poor
"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion."
Thomas Sowell
Belief in One’s Victimization: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Classic scar experiment that is highly relevant to modern times, where people who believe that they are victims try to cash in on that purported victimization over and over, classic case of confirmation bias and WYSIATI.
More on the Dartmouth scar experiment at Psychology Today, along with commentary regarding Andy Clark's work on predictive processing, including a link to fascinating rubber hand experiments.
About Merit
Pro sports: one of the few remaining high-visibility industries where merit is honored without apology, resulting in a consistently high-quality final product.
From Eli Steele:
Here are dozens of other reasons we need to refocus on merit: "In Defense of Merit in Science." Abstract:
Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological advances, reducing suffering, narrowing social gaps, and improving the quality of life globally. This perspective documents the ongoing attempts to undermine the core principles of liberal epistemology and to replace merit with non-scientific, politically motivated criteria. We explain the philosophical origins of this conflict, document the intrusion of ideology into our scientific institutions, discuss the perils of abandoning merit, and offer an alternative, human-centered approach to address existing social inequalities.
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