Oh brother, what incredible timing in taking a sabbatical immediately before a worldwide pandemic and the ensuing chaos and discord. This is Professor H-Rod writing today’s blog post and honestly this was one of the shortest sabbatical’s in my personal history, if not history itself. So much has happened since TTCU has been in session that it’s truly difficult to comprehend. Here at TTCU we’re most excited to have created an actual presence within our virtual universe, but more about that later.
As always here at TTCU we prefer to stay above the fray, scrum and cacophony in order to hopefully identify the overarching causes and inarguable truths in order to reach common consensus and further fruitful discourse. Affiliation to party over country or shared best interest is never accepted here and we’ll break out a dunce cap to be worn shamefully under such circumstances.
In these United States ( TTCU is primarily concerned with the fab 50 because when we “catch a cold, the world dies of covid”) in the 21c discerning truth is challenging at best and has become indiscernible generally. The biggest hurtle to overcome often is simply understanding the perspective at best, or at worst the AGENDA of the person, male or female (our biology professor Dr Hamilton still maintains there is a real non-fungible differentiation between the two) holds while they present their “heartfelt”opinion. Good luck with all of that.
However, here at TTCU we have developed a formula which, if there ever was a will to implement would help people to at least discern whether the personality speaking AT us have their bona fides, or are just talking-head gas bags giving their uninformed opinion in order to promote and further their own prurient self interest. It’s a little known fact in the media world today, but the departments that are responsible for promoting our favorite television personalities laboring for any “news” network, are being remunerated by either the news or the entertainment department, which have entirely different missions and standards of conduct and content. For example, all prime time windbags are being paid by their employers’ entertainment department. This is bait-and-switch 101, a course that we don’t even offer our athletes.
Since 1968 the motion picture rating system has guided parents (both male and female), as well as all other interested parties with regard to the appropriate nature for all age groups. This system has become an ersatz prism through which people (as defined as human beings) can reasonably discern their expectations regarding the content of any film. With this in mind, why then is it appropriate to feed us information masquerading as news, without proper accountability as to the people and their agendas who attempt to blur the lines of reality and unreality (thank you Dr Mitroff)? Therefor, we at TTCU propose that all “news” programs should come with a rating of: N for newsworthy content by journalism professionals, or E for entertainers masquerading as newsworthy people, all generally men or women. We are amenable to substituting the E designation for BS (bovine scatologists). Thank you for that, General Schwarzkopf Jr.
Concerning our virtually physical campus, that’s going to have to wait as we’ve run out of time.
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