Comments on: SYTYCD Goes to War! http://mp285.com/2007/07/sytycd-goes-to-war/ worldwide. webbed feats. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:47:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: marisa http://mp285.com/2007/07/sytycd-goes-to-war/comment-page-1/#comment-136 marisa Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:36:49 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/sytycd-goes-to-war/#comment-136 You know, I've been thinking about that a lot, and haven't yet come to any conclusions. It is really still mostly a feeling for me. My sense is that we're losing our language for public discourse. Our cliches and easy-bake answers are failing us, but we are also too afraid to use anything else. I feel like I see this fear everywhere, like we are afraid to think too deeply or too broadly about anything. And I don't mean this in a "people are stupid way," but just to get at my sense that the complexity and importance of issues that affect our daily lives is outstripping our capacity to have important conversations about them. Oh, and by the way, I have no problem including SYTYCD as "public discourse"! You know, I’ve been thinking about that a lot, and haven’t yet come to any conclusions. It is really still mostly a feeling for me. My sense is that we’re losing our language for public discourse. Our cliches and easy-bake answers are failing us, but we are also too afraid to use anything else. I feel like I see this fear everywhere, like we are afraid to think too deeply or too broadly about anything.

And I don’t mean this in a “people are stupid way,” but just to get at my sense that the complexity and importance of issues that affect our daily lives is outstripping our capacity to have important conversations about them.

Oh, and by the way, I have no problem including SYTYCD as “public discourse”!

]]> By: Emily http://mp285.com/2007/07/sytycd-goes-to-war/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Emily Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:36:49 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/sytycd-goes-to-war/#comment-133 Great post, and makes me sad to have missed the show last night. I think there's so much to think about (for me, at least) in this: "It was nice to hear anyone say anything and mean it." That's so true! Do you have any ideas why that's true in this time and place? Great post, and makes me sad to have missed the show last night. I think there’s so much to think about (for me, at least) in this: “It was nice to hear anyone say anything and mean it.” That’s so true! Do you have any ideas why that’s true in this time and place?

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