Readit NewsThe pattern I found mostly is - in comfort - something bad happens - try to get out of bad situation/get revenge - overcome many difficulties - maybe some plot twist - overcome last difficulty
What are good examples of the story setup in the articles?
(If you are American, you definitely know Sousa. Think of any patriotic march you've ever heard. Sousa probably wrote that.)
Sousa was not so much worried about the economic effects, but about how the new technology would change the social function of music. It would change what music was. He worried that instead of people gathering around the family or neighborhood pianist and singing together, they would be alone in their own rooms passively listening.
He worried that children would no longer gather on neighbourhood stoops to make up their own little songs and sing them together, but would all start passively consuming the same music as every one else in the country.
Sousa was worried that recoding technology would change music from active social interactions where we create music together into isolated, passive consumption.
Sousa was right.
Oh wait. It probably has a bit to do with the ridiculous waste of space, not having nearly enough trained musicians to meet the demand of the billions of consumers on this planet, no chance in hell of paying them all a fair wage if there were, etc.
Here is yet another example of wishing for "good old days" that will not be remotely possible to bring into modernity on the same scale without a culling of, oh, 75+% of the population.
Perhaps the author has a point, but from a external point of view I’m not sure there is anything of value to take away from this rant. Is the population decline of any significance in the first place, and while I see people caring about housing prices and potentially wages stagnation, do people leaving really care about lawn mower laws ?
It's just more brain vomit to try convincing others we need to roll back the clock to the "good ol' days" when women and minorities were second/third-class citizens, because the world was so much better... for a single demographic.
Remember, these people are buying cardboard cutouts of the face of a man who dodged military service, likely hasn't done a bit of exercise in the last 30+ years and would end up accidentally killing himself and/or his own children if given an M60 machine gun superimposed onto Sylvester Stallone's body. Nothing they say should be taken seriously.
Rest Ice Compression Elevation may be wrong, but it is at least easy to understand, memorize, and explain. When my friend hurts their ankle, I want to pass on the latest, vetted wisdom. I don’t want to sound like a jackass saying, “O is for optimism. But we are not done yet. V is for vascularization. You don’t have much control over it, but we need to the round out the word LOVE. The third E is for …”
"Couldn't they have come up with something simpler, since the healing of soft-tissue injuries is so simple?"
Content you purchased. Their wording. Not content you rented, not license you paid for.
They are effectively stealing the content you purchased.