army1987 comments on Good movies for rationalists? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: roland 09 November 2013 08:00AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2013 10:17:24AM *  0 points [-]

all relationship problems existed in more or less the same form prior to Hollywood.

Sure? cue reactionaries' claims about divorce and stuff

Upvoted anyway for an excellent heuristic, even though I'm not sure the premise is correct in this case.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 November 2013 04:12:22AM 0 points [-]

I really wasn't trying to pick a fight here. I was asking for clarification about what was being said. "I believe Hollywood is responsible for some huge chunk of the sum total of all relationship problems, in part because I believe those problems did not exist before Hollywood" would have been a fine example of such a clarification. .