June 25, 2020
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Are things better in terms of people’s knowledge of sex and sexual behaviour compared to when you were growing up in the ‘70s?
Rick Rosner: Yes, I think with MeToo and with knowledge in general. Things are generally better, but the whole culture is more perverse. Carole and I were just watching a documentary on the sexual abuse scandal in American gymnastics.
Where hundreds of girls were molested, one guy in particular. He was probably the most celebrated doctor, but there were others who were molesting these girls. Girls who were abused in a whole bunch of other ways too.
The model for gymnastics since Bella Caroli came over from Romania in the ‘80s has been to be really mean and punitive. That is the way it is thought to win gold medals. On the document, it was hundreds getting abused.
Just looking at the rest of the Netflix and HBO lineup, the stories we watch now are all fucked up.
Jacobsen: Is it SNAFU central?
Rosner: Just the perverse and the dark, and embracing all the nasty details of life, where compare what we watch now to Magnum P.I. or Starsky and Hutch, or the Partridge Family, the nasty realities of life were kept hidden from T.V. and in life.
People had no idea as to the level of rapey and abusive behaviour that went on and people were more tolerant of sexually abusive and harassing behaviour. We made a deal where it is the Garden of Eden.
We made a deal to know more, which brings a measure of improvement in people’s lives because it is harder for abusers to get away with stuff. Because people are more aware of the potential for abuse and are less willing to hide it.
But the other half of the deal is that we’re less innocent. We accept that everything and everybody are fucked up. That’s all I have to say. It makes for better stories, more entertaining stories. It’s still possible for a shitty production team to make a shitty show.
There are plenty of shitty shows that are gritty and employ all the nasty details of humanity. I stopped watching this one show called Marcella out of England. It is hacky because it makes everybody the worst person possible.
You know the worst thing that can happen, will happen. There was a kid in the show who has a bunch of pet mice. I figured at some point in the story that the kid would crush one of the mice because it is that type of show. He did. I decided that show had nothing original to say and decided to stop watching.
Anyway, we live in a fallen world, which is, to some extent, the price of knowledge.
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American Television Writer
(Updated July 25, 2019)
*High range testing (HRT) should be taken with honest skepticism grounded in the limited empirical development of the field at present, even in spite of honest and sincere efforts. If a higher general intelligence score, then the greater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of the greater rarity in the population.*
According to some semi-reputable sources gathered in a listing here, Rick G. Rosner may have among America’s, North America’s, and the world’s highest measured IQs at or above 190 (S.D. 15)/196 (S.D. 16) based on several high range test performances created by Christopher Harding, Jason Betts, Paul Cooijmans, and Ronald Hoeflin. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writers Guild Awards and Emmy nominations, and was titled 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Directory with the main “Genius” listing here.
He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmys, The Grammys, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He worked as a bouncer, a nude art model, a roller-skating waiter, and a stripper. In a television commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the “World’s Smartest Man.” The commercial was taken off the air after Subway sandwiches issued a cease-and-desist. He was named “Best Bouncer” in the Denver Area, Colorado, by Westwood Magazine.
Rosner spent much of the late Disco Era as an undercover high school student. In addition, he spent 25 years as a bar bouncer and American fake ID-catcher, and 25+ years as a stripper, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. Errol Morris featured Rosner in the interview series entitled First Person, where some of this history was covered by Morris. He came in second, or lost, on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? over a flawed question and lost the lawsuit. He won one game and lost one game on Are You Smarter Than a Drunk Person? (He was drunk). Finally, he spent 37+ years working on a time-invariant variation of the Big Bang Theory.
Currently, Rosner sits tweeting in a bathrobe (winter) or a towel (summer). He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, dog, and goldfish. He and his wife have a daughter. You can send him money or questions at LanceVersusRick@Gmail.Com, or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn, or see him on YouTube.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Founder, In-Sight Publishing
Scott Douglas Jacobsen is the Founder of In-Sight Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal (ISSN 2369-6885). Jacobsen works for science and human rights, especially women’s and children’s rights. He considers the modern scientific and technological world the foundation for the provision of the basics of human life throughout the world and the advancement of human rights as the universal movement among peoples everywhere.
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