Plastic’s Blog Space (1970+)

 BRAINSTORMING FOR MARGULIS Dual housing market: historically de jure until Supreme Court decisions since the middle of the century. Such as Shelley vs. Kramer around 1946, a decision that “restrictive covenants” could not be enforced by any levels of government or the courts. And later in the sixties the civil rights and fair housing legislation and other reversals of separate but equal removed the de jure part. However, there has been relaxed enforcement of fair housing laws since the first Reagan Administration. Some social theories that suggest that as “immigrant- type” groups, such as blacks, gain education and income and become more like middle-class whites, that they will meet with much less exclusion in such thing as job-seeking and the purchase of housing. However, investigations by many social scientists indicate that blacks get less housing benefits from better jobs and more income and education than whites. (see Darden) Blacks are largely confined to less desirable neig...

  EXPLANATION-- THE SETTING IS THE NEAR FUTURE. AARON ANDERSON, AN ASTRONAUT HAS THE CHANCE TO GO ON THE FIRST MISSION TO ANOTHER STAR, THE PROBLEM IS THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE HIS FAMILY BECAUSE THE JOURNEY WILL TAKE OVER FIFTEEN YEARS EVEN AT THE INCREDIBLE SPEEDS THE SPACECRAFT WILL TRAVEL IT IS THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. IN THIS FUTURE SOCIETY IT IS ACCEPTABLE AND EXPECTED THAT HE WILL LEAVE HIS FAMILY. SIMILAR TO THE SOVIET UNION THIS NATION SELECTS ITS BEST AND BRIGHTEST AND PUTS THEM IN TRACKS FOR LIFE.   AARON IS A NATIONAL HERO.HERE HE IS TALKING WITH HIS PSYCHOLOGIST WHO IS IN FACT SECRETLY HIS BEST FRIEND. DR. FITZMAN IS ABOUT FIFTY-FIVE WHILE AARON IS ONLY THIRTY-FIVE. THEIR LONG FRIENDSHIP IS A SECRET BECAUSE THERE IS CONFIDENTIALITY BETWEEN AN ANALYST AND HIS PATIENT EVEN IN THIS WORLD THAT IS RESPECTED. IF THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND THE UNPROFESSIONAL NATURE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WERE FOUND OUT, THEY WOULD NEVER SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN.   AARON HAS A DIFFICULT DECI...

  L-GIRLS   Alvie Diamond looked up from his usual three fried eggs, hash browns, and wheat toast and gazed out through the wide glass window of Andrew's Diner, squinting at the sunlight reflected in the window of his cab out front. A stewardess walked by with a very preoccupied look on her face. Something about her made Alvie think her name was Lynn. Then she'd be an L-girl: First letter "L" and something after it. But he forgot about this and took a long sip of coffee. He loved coffee and hated to let it get cold. Currently he wasn't seeing anyone. Lisa down at the bank refused to even acknowledge his existence. It was all--how had she put it--something to do with "new objectives" she was setting for her life and future. Alvie didn't know. He didn't care. What he did know was that it was time to FIND another L-girl--the right one this time--he told himself one more time. I hope. In far off California was another wrong L-girl with a little girl ...

Solving The Du Boisian Double Consciousness   Jason Crockett Sociology of Minorities Spring 1997 Professor William Morgan, PhD (Instructor)     In this essay, the words and ideas of Molefi K. Asante and C. Eric Lincoln are used, taken from their respective essays, “Racism, Consciousness, and Afrocentricity” and “The Du Boisian Dubiety and the American Dilemma,” in an attempt to understand the Du Boisian Dilemma faced by at least one famous African American and described in the first chapter of his text,  The Souls of Black Folk . He wrote a cryptic passage, considering the identity of African Americans, that has been regarded as perplexing, mysterious, and very important:  “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro…The history of the American N...

  REVIEW OF YOUTUBE FREECODECAMP VIDEO   I started (yesterday) and finished (today) my first complete viewing of a freecodecamp tutorial on YouTube. It was about 3.5 hours long, (supposedly) on the topic of “Learn JavaScript: Full Course for Beginners,” and presented by Beau Carnes.     While I did learn a little bit from the video, the program seemed purposely devised to be choppy and ineffective, a product of a government-sponsored conspiracy to sequester knowledge and learning (“the school board thing”) again, I suppose.   Carnes taught some basic JavaScript, in a way that assumed you already knew how to program (while veiling this) and zoomed again and again through syntax and concepts that, I think, had no place in a 3.5 hour beginners video or taught before giving a firm grounding in the JavaScript language—which the video never came close to achieving.    It was like he was teaching very basic Algebra interspersed with Calculus, over and over. C...

  A Ricardian Economic Crisis (ala Obama): ·        The war machine consumes/consumed a huge portion of RGDP, including food ·        Bugs spoiled more large portions of food produced ·        The need to remediate the environment lead to the use of different technologies that don’t work that well ·        Low labor productivity due to a graying and sociopathic population  ·        Reduced per-capita RGDP after population expansion and slow or negative economic growth  ·        Population not dying off much, even from starvation and hate crimes ·        Very effective new technologies not often rolling out ·        Constant energy crises leads to conservation and consequent slow economic growth ·        New...