In-Sight Publishing May 26, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, so, do you think that we're going to see a level of debauchery in the post-Covid world, as we saw in the 1970s? Rick Rosner: All right. So, before we get to now, we have to talk about America and European countries, …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 597: The Disco Era and the Distracted Era
In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So old school science, science fiction from the golden age, at least what we think about it, my prime example is a little bit post-golden age. I'm talking about original Star Trek. But anyway, science fiction like that totally misses the foolishness of the …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 596: Books, the Future, Futurism, and an Old Blanket
In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s a fella named Graham Priest. He deals with a contradiction to contradictions, dialetheia. He, basically, drove that entire field. Anyway, the New York Times, Gulalai and the Ismail family has been featuredtwo or three or four times in the last couple of …
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In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, Carole and I have been looking at where we might move at some point in our lives, obviously towards our older years because we're already fucking older. I'm 61 and Carole turns 57 in two months. That urge to find someplace else to …
In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is more off the cuff, so it's not fair. Because it's requiring long term knowledge, but what are the pluses, minuses, differences between former President Trump when he was in his first four months and current president Biden in his first term? …
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In-Sight Publishing April 10, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, can you explain to me again what the hell is Kitsch? How does it differentiate from quiche? Why are we talking about it? Rick Rosner: Quiches is an egg pie. Kitsch is easily appreciated pandering to the easy emotions art. Like cute …
In-Sight Publishing March 27, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is kitsch? Rick Rosner: Kitsch is easy comforting art. In a previous time, everybody would know what they are; do you know what Hummel figurines are? Jacobsen: No. Rosner: Everybody knew what they were in the 60s, 70s, even in the 80s. …
In-Sight Publishing January 18, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why are the sports in a pandemic in America? Rick Rosner: I want to agree that it's fucking ridiculous to have sports in a pandemic. America's behavior has been… we're not alone in dumb behavior among the nations of the world during the …
In-Sight Publishing December 31, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, what are your plans or wishes for 2021? Rick Rosner: Well, there is a fade somewhat, that trump and his people are prosecuted. In that, we've tried the partnering route before. Letting bygones be bygones in the name of healing, that seems …
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In-Sight Publishing December 18, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A lot of things we thought were pretty secure in the findings, probably not unfounded, but less founded than we thought things were on personality and things like this. But other things we have found are consistent through the decades have been things …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 587: Personality Meh, General Intelligence Yeah
