NathanR

The American fascination with celebrity has gone too far.  It encompasses nearly everybody in the public spotlight and robs them of their privacy while hindering them from performing the duties for which we elevated them to the stature of demigods in the first place.  When somebody gets paid a large sum of money for a certain skill, people start to think that they now have the … [Read more...] about Dumb It Down: I Am Not A Role Model

By Nathan Rieder The President of the United States of America, the most powerful man in the most powerful nation, the leader of the free world, the…philanderer? In recent decades the American public has become increasingly concerned with the personal lives of our political leaders: caring more about what they do in their own homes than how they vote on important issues.  … [Read more...] about Dumb It Down: CelebrityGate

By Nathan Rieder Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”.  Some other guy undoubtedly once said “It’s trite and tacky to start a blog entry with a quote by Albert Einstein”.  So be it.  The veracity of this quote far outweighs any concerns I have about the stylistic taboo of opening with it. We live in a … [Read more...] about Dumb It Down: Techno-Useless

I recently watched a dystopic, farcical, futuristic sci-fi film called Idiocracy.  The premise was that while the smart and well educated tended to be prudent about their decision-making and forgo having children when it would not be responsible, those that constitute the dregs of society continued to procreate in record numbers until, eventually, society was reduced to nothing … [Read more...] about Dumb It Down – The Bicycle Debacle