(Part 2) Top products from r/lostgeneration

Robert Neuwirth seems to be the current 'expert' about System D and has a really interesting (and easy to read) book + a handful of TED Talks. I find the whole thing really fascinating, I'm glad black markets are getting recognition for being innovative!

The military (mil spec manuals) was one of the primary drivers & advocates of the development of the SGML system.

And again, HTML was a subset (initially very crude & limited functionality) of it -- which, among other things, allowed the leveraging of various (already existing) parsing algorithms.

That really DOESN'T lessen the "great achievement" status of Timothy Berners-Lee (the so called -- and not entirely inaccurately so -- "inventor" of the "world wide web") work -- which was really more the creation and distribution of a combination of tools, and perhaps most importantly "giving it away" -- openly/freely sharing the specs: the http protocol (based on other internet protocols, but again simplified, initially all it did was a "GET" request), along with a small footprint ("web/http") server application, and the first (text only "web") browser application.

Several Many others had TRIED to craft "hypertext" (i.e. user editable text/documents with click-able "links" or regions) systems -- protocols and the accompanying server/viewer application sets -- but they all failed or fell short of wide adoption for a number of reasons (some of them for being to simplistic, others for being too complex, and most for being "commercial/proprietary" and working only on specific platforms).

BTW, if you can lay your hands on it, TBL's book "Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web" is well worth the read, and is not only interesting from a technical and historical perspective, but also to see what his original "vision" was, and how that has been both fulfilled, and on the other hand in some ways went unfulfilled (or even subverted) as the web actually developed and grew.

This is the sort of thing covered in the book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

Nowadays, middle class and up parents try to prepare their kids to succeed in capitalism while they're still in the womb and throughout their childhoods and teenage years. Literally every activity, including friendships, is assessed and selected according to its possible future payoff.

Of course this is not healthy for kids and leads to stuff like hyper-competitive spelling bees. And it leaves less well off kids, kids of average intelligence and talent and resources, in the dust. This is how you get a lost generation.

By definition, not everyone can be a ninja rockstar, but average people need to eat and make rent too.

Well, a little while ago, I read 'This Book will Save Your Life' it's about a guy who has been successful, but is living an incredible safe, predictable, and boring life (daily grind.) The book is about what happens when some unexpected events lead him outside of his daily routine.

All too true.

I am a former adjunct who can testify to what is happening to/at higher ed. Unless something quite serious is done, and done soon, the American university will be over. Done. Finished.

I offer two links. First, B. Ginsberg book on how universities came to abandon their faculty in favor of administrators: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Faculty-All-Administrative-University/dp/019978244X

And second, a book which references the plight of Gen-Y folk in general, Tristan Gans' Stranieri: Life among Italy's Tourists, Expats, and Immigrants (don't be fooled by the name): http://www.amazon.com/Stranieri-Italys-Tourists-Immigrants-ebook/dp/B008SS74BY

In the interest of full disclosure, I am connected to Belfort and Bastion, the company that published Gans ebook.

How about you read this book and then talk about how I'm being silly. Besides, OP didn't even use the word 'average' anywhere in the original post. So what are you even talking about?

The problem isn't just your father, but how many people believe they will be your father and how many people are unwilling to protect themselves from your father.

As a son of a family which also has private banking and used to do organizing, I can safely state that the American working class will fail, and will collapse and perish when we are both old.

I would read this book, for peace of mind. http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Acquiescence-Resistance-Organized/dp/0316185434

The author, a historian, says we have nearly nothing in common with the population that built america in the first place... It's almost pleasurable reading how awful Americans are today

>My Generation's Best Chance Is Socialism

No it isn't.

Capitalism's primary issue is that it allows for a relatively small group of people to exert an incredible amount of influence over society for their own benefit. Socialism's problem is very similar, but it concentrates that group to an absolutely tiny one and gives them far more unilateral power over the populace.

If you think Socialism is the answer, you need to read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Son-Revolution-Liang-Heng/dp/0394722744

Here's their book on Amazon if you want to analyze the study further.

Looks like they just wrote a book on this topic.

Why do women get so much hate in the comments on articles like these? It seems like all the guys who got "friend-zoned" or whatever just salivate at another article talking about how GIRLS WON'T DATE US SEE THEY'RE ALL FEMINIST SCUM BAGS WHO SHOULD DIE or something.

Peter Joseph is wrong for a number of reasons, and we can predict with a good degree of certainty that his system would fail in practice, if implemented. The techno-utopian society that forms the dreamscape of the RBE crowd is just a rehash of mid-20th century modernism which gave us the likes of Brasilia. The best book disproving modernism is Seeing Like a State:

> The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. And in discussing these planning disasters, he identifies four conditions common to them all: the state's attempt to impose administrative order on nature and society; a high-modernist ideology that believes scientific intervention can improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale innovations; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.

What annoys me, though, is the number of ideologues rehashing Peter Joseph's arguments word for word without adding a single meaningful thought or contribution to them.

https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Middle-Class-Prejudice-Economy/dp/0262036169

The only book on the two economy you need to read

You might find this interesting:
http://www.amazon.com/Privatopia-Homeowner-Associations-Residential-Government/dp/0300066384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456910737&sr=8-1&keywords=privatopia

It's not just women.. there was this from a few years back.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Trash-400-Year-History-America/dp/0143129678

Ok even if Trump openly supported Fascists (he has consistently supported Democrats for ages): SO DOES EVERY AMERICAN BUSINESS AND POLITICIAN.

Are you all Amnesiacs? Or just have you had a psychotic breakdown. Because to accuse Trump of being Hitler you have to have almost zero knowledge of what the U.S. has been up to for the last hundred fucking years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States

Trump is a goddamned realestate agent. Bush senior was in the CIA. Yet somehow Trump is the ultimate evil?

And not that any of that matters because you guys have been fascist since like 1900:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/its-been-50-years-biggest-us-backed-genocide-youve-never-heard

What the fuck did Trump have to do with ANY of that!?

>Do you understand that war is against the economic interests of all private businesses/individuals

No, it isn't. That is why war predates the state. If you don't believe me, here's a good book on the subject.

>that all war is fought over taking control of another country's tax-base?

You might want to read some military history, then.

I expect to get downvoted into oblivion for this, but I don't care, you need to hear this.

Man the fuck up. Seriously. Man the fuck up. You sound like a wingey little kid. You're 25 for christ's sake, start acting like it. Yeah, things aren't working out for you. So what? You sound like a classic example of someone who lets his past failures hold him back.

Take a bit of responsibility for your life and stop letting minor setbacks ruin you. Your internship fell through? Big whoop, go find another one. Your letters of recommendation didnt get written? Did you chase them up? If someone says they'll do something for you, and they don't do it, you kick their arse, annoy the shit out of them, until they do. if you can't get the job you want, then you're doing something wrong. Don't blame the job, blame yourself. Either you don't have the necessary skills, or you're not marketing yourself in the right way.


>Within a year, I expect to be dead by my own hand, the victim of one too many misfortunes.


Get fucked! You seem to think that the world owes you a fair go, that if you wait around long enough someone will take you by the hand and solve all your problems for you. Aint gonna happen, that's not the way the world works. People go through a lot of shit, but you've gotta weed through the shit and find the good parts. You don't like your family? Move out. Move to a different town. Hell, I moved to a different country. Can't find the job you want? Like I said, either you're aiming too high or you're not presenting yourself in the right way. Judging from this:

>Most companies to whom I send resumes don't even read the cover letter before sending me a form letter saying that I'm not a good fit for their position or deleting it entirely

It sounds like you THINK you've got the necessary skills for a job, but aren't getting it because employers have some sort of unanimous grudge against you. Yeah, right. Either your cover letters are crap, or your resume is crap, or you're underqualified. There are plenty of places/people that will read over your resume and cover letters and give you feedback on how to get an interview.

>I do not expect to have children, even if I should manage to survive until then--doing so would require finding one person who gives a shit about me personally

Wow, you really seem like a barrel of laughs mate. Read The Game, join your local lair, make some friends and get laid. I head your pessimistic mind saying "No, that's a waste of time, people just don't like me and blahblahblah". Yeah, you're probably right. So change, and the world will start to treat you better.

Get your shit together man. No one's gonna do it for you, you have to take responsibility for your life and for the path that you're taking. If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always been getting. I'm gonna say that again so it sinks in a bit:

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always been getting.

So man the fuck up. Rather than having a boo-hoo-look-at-me-my-life-is-so-horrible-and-hard-and-no-one-understaaaaands pity party, try changing a few things about yourself. Be more positive, stop talking about depressing things. The more you talk about your problems, the more "real" they seem.

If life kicks you in the face, get the fuck up and kick it in the balls.