We owe them nothing anymore. Stop sending them our tax dollars. It is like perma poverty. Let China have them.
That snippet and the OP speaks for itself.
So, you're OK with Janet Jackson baring her chest during the half time show?The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.
The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.
That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.
The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.
The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.
It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.
It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.www.mediaite.com
There’s another failed attempt. Want to try again?
kind of like Mississippi.
There’s the dim bulb who yesterday declared Bad Bumbler has won three Emmy’s (Grammys) and when corrected STILL did not recognize his error and repeated it. The Puerto Rico is a state assertion was vintage idiot also.
And they are all glued to their non existent TVs down there watching the games
The game was equally boring.
Here is why I changed channels. Entertainment to me has to be understandable. My former schooling in Spanish, way back in the 1950s simply left me out of the program. They could have performed speaking Chinese or Korean and I still would change channels. What shocked me too is that the Super Bowl presented this type of entertainment, aimed at one group in California I believe. My son in law and my daughter never watched it at all. I wanted to see two giants of professional football play the game and Seattle played it far better than New England.The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.
The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.
That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.
The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.
The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.
It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.
It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.
Both teams played very good defense, and many fans do not enjoy defense at all. As happens with many games, this one featured the lack of skill played by New England on offense with the good defense by both teams for 3 quarters. Even when New England scored, they also sent gifts to Seattle in the form of interceptions. Seattle played the better game.
hmmmm...the article itself seems to be just someone fulfilling their role in all this...does replying to it also prove how dumb we have become?The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.
The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.
That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.
The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.
The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.
It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.
It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.
3 Grammys. I said Emmys was a typo and thanked you for correcting it. That’s recognition of the error which I made immediately.
I gave up on halftimes after Jay Z took over. Booking a dude that doesn't perform anything in English was particularly offensive.
Nonsense. the music was boring, the sheilas were presented as trollops/whores and the blokes were sleazy.The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.
The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.
That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.
The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.
The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.
It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.
It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.
