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Quality Contributions to the Main Motte
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"You may think certain cases are bullshit, but the plaintiff is still suffering, and I'm saying this as part of the defense bar." (with bonus content)
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"Just Finished The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Changed the NHL and Remade the Game Forever."
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I keep thinking about the posts both @urquan and I and FdB have been making about the death of middle brow in most things. It’s a need for balance because the high brow is obviously too high for most people to meet in any real sense unless you’re obsessed with that one thing and willing to devote huge amounts of time, effort, and often money into that thing, but the low brow seems to be “you can’t be perfect, so why bother to try.” I think both end up being at least somewhat of a problem because a society that teaches people to not put effort into anything will become the place where kids play video games instead of leaving the house, the place where nobody reads good books and thus cannot think in anything but obvious cliches, and the place where everyone wears bathrobes outside of working hours. On the other hand a society that requires super high standards for minimum participation is also one that shuts out the majority of people from getting involved in things that they might care about. If you need a phd to understand poetry, then poetry is closed off to most people (although I would argue that rap is poetry for normies) and nobody tries to write any.
I’ve found this In cooking. A lot of younger kids tend to think cooking is hard. The thing is, when you look at the recipes they’re doing, it’s insane. Multiple pots and pans, fiddly instructions, exotic ingredients, and so on. Of course they don’t want to cook, it’s been made complicated because the hobbyists have taken over and made dishes that taste great, but are so complex to prepare that most people give up and door dash instead.
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