Ira Rosenstein's Activity
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Ira Rosenstein wrote a new blog post: Follow-Up (Part 3) On My ” ’Asperger’s Syndrome’– Why Don’t We Just Shoot All The Geniuses?” 3 weeks, 5 days ago
I guess Richard Ho is what people mean when they hurl “Asperger” at someone. To be ideally followed, of course, by 2010 America’s favorite mind cure: a mental flatlining, oh, let’s just call it what it is, a mental lobotomizing by drugs.
The New York Times, Sunday Styles Section, 6/13/10, 14, paints a grim -
Ira Rosenstein wrote a new blog post: Follow-Up (Part 2) On My ” ’Asperger’s Syndrome’– Why Don’t We Just Shoot All The Geniuses?” 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The stereotype of the “absent-minded professor” was created because the average mind doesn’t understand how the elite mind works, or it sort of does and it feels jealous or inferior, so it puts it down. To this we add one of the worst trends on the planet today: an appalling thrust toward uniformity, a
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Ira Rosenstein wrote a new blog post: Follow-Up (Part 1) On My ” ’Asperger’s Syndrome’– Why Don’t We Just Shoot All The Geniuses?” 1 month, 3 weeks ago
In my posting of November 4, 2009 I blasted how society is now demonizing some of its most brilliant people, especially some of its most brilliant young people, as suffering from some stupid pseudo-scientific concoction called “Asperger’s Syndrome”, and the potential here for denying genius any role to play in our society, even though
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Ira Rosenstein wrote a new blog post: Sunday, June 27, 2010 – The Destruction Of NYC Mass Transit Commences 2 months, 1 week ago
You may have noticed something: As of today a lot of the subway and bus service in New York City has been destroyed or radically cut back. If you haven’t noticed it today, then tomorrow in your Monday commute. Further cuts seem assured in the future, combined with ever-increasing fares that will eventually put
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Ira Rosenstein wrote a new blog post: ”Celebration at the Edge of Decay” – The New York Times’ Decadent ThursdayStyles Section 2 months, 2 weeks ago
It’s always struck me that the The New York Times’ ThursdayStyles section represented the bottom of the barrel of that mixed-bag/sometimes still great/sometimes gross and appalling and sometimes inbetween American institution called The New York Times. And without ever actually counting the faces it also struck me that the section was weirdly, overwhelmingly White
