India, the internet, and the joke on the modern world
The title at The New York Times is anodyne, India’s Courts Grapple With Web Censorship. But the story stinks up the page/screen with manifest evidence that the Indian government and mass culture is not equipped to deal with the wide open liberty which the internet provides: India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing […]
Either blasphemy laws or multiculturalism are moronic (probably both)
As a matter of fact I think both blasphemy laws and multiculturalism are moronic. But together they make a dynamic moron duo which leads to nothing but social stagnation. One can’t easily characterize the “hurt feelings” of primitive morons, and when you have around 1 billion of them it’s impossible (the vast majority of Indians […]
What is best in life?
I’m more a connoisseur of the trailers of summer films than a viewer of them. But I notice that a new Conan film is coming out, after years of delays which I was blissfully ignorant of. But honestly this is not a franchise I’d have thought…