1. The media should report the news without injecting personal opinion as fact. (This didn't use to be unpopular) 2. Social media is a net negative for society.
I feel like the media has included propaganda and editorial since at least Thomas Paine. Social media is a great way for government and datamining conglomerates to know what the populace thinks/feels/does. If you're into that.
Human nature I suppose. I think Buckley vs Gore Vidal somehow opened a can of worms in recent history. Apparently their debates were revolutionary. Now we see that everywhere. I'm not a huge history buff about the founding of this country by any means but I'm sure they had to sensationalize stuff to get people to follow along.
But the media had standards that countered that due to professionalism and good taste. For ever "Rag" Hearst started, there would be a new generation of writers who longed to be H.L. Mencken or Edward R Murrow. Now there are no standards as anybody in the profession is told immediately they won't have a career. As far as social media, that's here to stay. I just hope people realize that falling pray to it fucks up your dopamine levels as you strive for peer acceptance, destroyed any type of public discourse and makes people fear the mob mentality. But if we are cool with allowing mobs tactics to destroy any type of free discussion we have under fear of brigading and shaming, I've got no problem with that. Just make sure your opinion is something the crowd will always agree with and you are the one holding the pitchfork.
Eminem's new album is hot garbage and he as an artist hasn't been good since the Recovery album ~7 years ago and even that wasn't what I'd call a great album.
I think organized religion is stupid, and is a (mostly) inherited tool used to control the masses. Their actions are cultish and create unneeded divide, disrespect, and conflict, based on beliefs that aren't based in any physical fact.
Hacksaw Ridge was fucking horrible. One of the worst war movies I have ever seen. Right up there with Windtalkers. Patton > Hacksaw Ridge Savings Private Ryan > Hacksaw Ridge Black Hawk Down > Hacksaw Ridge
I like Rogue One.... but anything "new" that they have come up with has been complete trash with zero story or character development. I look at Rogue One as a movie that was piggy backing off the Original Trilogy, but the new universe that they're building has been a total stinker.
The problem is that Pacific Theater war movies are not good (unless they're about the Naval conflicts.) It was a dirty, nasty, horrible war that was fought in the mud on tiny islands, and both sides did some nasty shit. I didn't like Windtalkers. I didn't like The Pacific. I didn't like Hacksaw Ridge. Actually, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima were decent, but I hated Thin Red Line as well.
Naw! It may not be inspiring or even your thing. But sucks is too heavy. What else would you play on an accordion?
I don't know if this is unpopular or not. I will say no the next time a stranger asks me in a book store, "Can I share your space?" I said yes being the nice person I am. The young lady eventually wanted my space and me out of it while I was still looking at books. I told her, "you can go around me and look as I am still looking at books in this section." She then got pissy and said a few immature things before going to another section of the store. I was raised to be patient while waiting for others to finish perusing if I wanted to look at the same book section of books. No more sharing my space with a stranger!
