Reihan Vlogging
If you have any sense, you’ll avoid this post.
Below you’ll find,
What if Cher were a South Asian man who only sang about bagels? The world would be a more miserable place.
Did you have a dream job? Watch as I crush your dreams.
This is a reply to Conor Friedersdorf:
a dark premonition involving a supervolcano:
Regarding your supervolcanic premonition: I feel like a far more horrific end for humanity is the one examined in Children of Men. It came to mind because you referred to cannibalism, and that seems like a pretty unpleasant self-erasing action. But really nothing can be more terrifying than the slower, more debasing rot that follows infertility, as it would produce competing factions of survivalists and violent fatalists (and sure, toss cannibalism into the mix, just for kicks). Then you’d reach the culmination of the world-view dialogue, ‘cept with vandals and militaries and paramilitaries and infrastructural crises born out of half the world’s workforce disappearing. Sure, there could be some benefits to having very localized economies, but the disadvantages of dismantling globalization would hurt even more, one has to think. It’s all really just the scariest eschatology imaginable, I figure.
A supervolcano would be a total bummer too, though.
— Christian L. · Aug 7, 03:41 PM · #
Well, there’s good negging and bad negging. Pointing out someone’s minor flaws playfully in order to establish a connection with them is one thing. But the idea behind negging isn’t to build a connection; it’s to make the girl you’re talking to feel bad about herself so she hooks up with you to make herself feel better.
— ebo · Aug 7, 05:04 PM · #
If you hit all four plays at the same time and let them run…it’s pretty intense.
— Mike · Aug 7, 05:15 PM · #
Also re: supervolcanoes, when I was a child I was confident there was a Volcano on the north side of Chicago that would destroy the city, and I remember my parents having to explain to me there weren’t any volcanoes in metro area, much less ones that would destroy the city on short notice.
I’d have nightmares. I was an anxious child.
— Mike · Aug 7, 05:18 PM · #
See, the supra shoes comment, when it comes, is going to be awesome in this post.
— Sanjay · Aug 7, 08:06 PM · #
Reihan,
Your negging vlog raises thoughtful points; the refusal to be defined by one’s attachments and affiliations seems generally quite worthwhile. I think you ought to have drawn a sharp distinction between this point considered at an abstract level and its application in the context of dating. Granted that communications between individuals acquire meaning in the context of their personal interactions, which are apt to be misinterpreted by outside observers; granted, further, that disagreement and mutual challenges can enliven a relationship—do you really disagree with Conor that there’s something troubling going on when a technique of putting women down is being mass marketed to lonely, sometimes alienated men? I really think the dating context is different from the friendship context on which you focus, and ought to be acknowledged as such.
— jason · Aug 8, 02:07 AM · #
It’s all really just the scariest eschatology imaginable, I figure.
— jordan 6 rings · Aug 10, 03:17 AM · #