The View Of The View

 Back around 2011....I had a snow day at work, and ended up staying home all day.  I sat and watched THE VIEW (never had seen it before).

So for about sixty minutes....I sat....consuming the show.

My view?

First, after about 20 minutes....I got the impression that whatever the ladies were talking about....they marginally knew anything about the subject.  It was like asking your barber about nuclear fusion, or asking the garbage truck guys about Asian food, or asking your minister for investment advice.

Second, about half of the show was politically motivated in some way.  It felt like some propaganda piece.

Third, it seemed hooked to some California mentality.  I should note....it is filmed there.  

Fourth and final....it was hard for me to imagine who would sit daily and watch the show.  Course, probably half the audience records it and plays it back after they get home at night.

This brings me to the question....is there anything of value to the View?  I think it's probably the wrong question to ask.  Instead, the question is.....are there so few women sitting there at 11 AM (ET)....that it's the cheapest show to produce and insert into the time-slot?  

The Path of Three Things

 1.  Gendering and Mis-gendering.

One day, you (as a supervisor or boss) will have a new employee arrive.  On the form, their first name is 'blkdidiaklsksidy', but they stand there and tell you that you shall prounounce their name as 'Tom', but it must be written each time as 'blkdidiaklsksidy'.  

Naturally, you ask for a social security card or valid ID, and they've somehow managed to get that set to 'blkdidiaklsksidy'.  

So you start off....a first name should have a capital 'B', and they tell you 'NO'.....by their gender.....their name starts off with a 'b'.  

Then you state the problem in that anyone who walks into the building looking for 'blkdidiaksksidy' and not asking for 'Tom'.  

A month will pass and two new employees arrive.....one with the first name 'SixSix-Nine-ixy' and the other being 'SixSix-Nine-ixy-Nine'.  

Eventually, you will let all three employees go, and get sued.  The problem here....there is nothing existing over name discrimination (yet).  So a whole new trend will start....to ensure name discrimination cannot occur.

2.  By 2030, in California....the Hispanic population in California will reach a stage where they outnumber whites and blacks.  

THE minority for California at this point.....will be the Hispanic folks, and the whole talk over minority action or reparations for blacks.....will end (abruptly).

By 2040.....the Hispanic wave will have reached five US states....where they outnumber blacks.  

It's Hispanics in the future of the US.....not blacks....that matter.

3.  Chatter over 4-day work-weeks?

There's a lot of discussion over dumping the five-day work-week.....going to four days instead.

If it means you rebalance the typical work-day to ten hours.....I just don't see this as a positive.  Course, the same people would openly discuss dumping the 24-hour clock and going to a 12-hour clock instead....having 120 minutes in an hour.