Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
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Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Gaston is by any measure the hero of the movie. He's a paragon, the absolute image, of his people, and they adore him. He is the bringer of benefit, the one who is capable of moving them to action as a body.
I think this is a great point.
Edit: though, upon reflection, Tangled played this pretty straight.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
As a theistic person, your post reads to me thus:
I am asexual. I cannot comprehend how sexual people like the way they are and I regard it as a sickness rather than recognizing myself as the one who is sick. If I can, I will fix the flaw in human beings which causes them to desire romance with each other. That is disgusting and it is clear to me that so much unnecessary pain could simply be avoided. I know so much better.
What I'm saying here isn't an argument. It's an apology. Best wishes to you.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
I don't really buy this. For one, plenty of people aren't enduring it because they've already killed themselves. For another, 'truth' itself is a funny thing in that all maps are wrong, and a more accurate map may actually be a less-useful map. But even this pushes us to consider what 'usefulness' means as it seems to imply some kind of overriding telos, which is, as far as I've ever been able to tell, not a matter easily able to be decided conclusively.
In regard to OP, there's also a matter of intelligibility. Perhaps there is a frequency of sound, for example, which is unbearable to hear. Those exposed to it are in such torment that they almost always end their own lives sooner or later, even if perhaps after years or decades of resistance. Only, most people can't hear this frequency. Does it make sense to tell those who can hear it that everything is fine because others are enduring it? Is this an appropriate thing to tell such a person if one is, oneself, unable to hear it?
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
My goodness but that article is incredibly nakedly biased. Little context, multiple scare quotes from the Left, basically zero indication as to why the majority might think what it does. Is this the news Americans are getting?
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Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Yeah, no, the presumption of good faith is gone here. You do not have the attitude of someone interested in learning and I won't be snookered into wasting more time on you.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
You know, a third way would be to simply eliminate the malformed. Not endorsing that but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Societies have been practicing some form or another of this basically forever.
Spent a minute trying to find a charitable basis on which to respond to this, but —
Can't remember the last time I saw someone so casually dismiss an entire concept while openly admitting that he doesn't even know what is being discussed and can't be bothered to spend five seconds at least googling the acronym.
It took you so much longer to write that! And you're so comfortable assuming that HBD-proponents only hold their views because of tawdry character flaws. When you do make it to google maybe look into "projection (psychology)" as well.
I'd thought you were a troll but it looks like you've been around a while?
One of life's mysteries, I guess. Like what 'HBD' means.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
A whole lot of non-black entities have a major interest in making this so. I'd suggest that they're a substantial part of the problem.
Seems to me that the problem here is looking at them as 'the blacks' (okay you actually said 'the African American community') instead of as individuals. There is a high degree of European admixture in black Americans. The average American black has roughly 20% white genetics. Plenty of 'blacks' are half or even majority-white. One even became President! Treat individuals as individuals and this problem becomes a lot more tractable. Insist on lumping people into groups and those groups must shortly be at each others' throats. (EDIT: And, you know, it's not like they're actually 'a community' by any stretch.)
Besides which, the strategy which I perceive you to be espousing here might work today, and it might work tomorrow, but at some point it becomes untenable sheerly due to numbers. Perhaps a technological singularity will save us. I don't like betting on that.
In the meantime, every major institution is sliding because standards are being lowered to desperately attempt 'equitable' outcomes. The elements of our society which produced this wealth in the first place are precisely those under attack.
At the same time, we can see how 'tax people with good traits to subsidize the reproduction of people with bad traits' might get us into real trouble. It's the humane thing to do right up until the whole system collapses under its weight and we're back to third-world levels of wealth without the social cohesion which allowed us to climb out of that in the first place.
I like the metaphor of an oared galley. At first all the rowers are strong men. But over time, as the rowers tire out, they begin to be replaced by statues of rowers. This can go on for a while, even as it increases the load on the extant rowers. There comes a tipping point, though, where the boat is dead in the water.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
for height, I couldn’t think of another cultural mechanism
Lifestyle factors resulting in premature age-related shrinking maybe? Like spending more or less time on one's feet. This is fun.
Much is made of intelligence and for good reason.
But I'd like to add:
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Parental investment
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Impulse control
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Self-confidence
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Time preference
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General aggressiveness
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Hormonal balances (e.g. testosterone)
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Industriousness
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Sexual fidelity
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Instinct toward hygiene
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Propensity to certain diseases
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Aesthetic preferences
And so many more!
Yes culture matters, but we have only to look to the animal kingdom for the obvious genetic underpinnings of all of the above.
My current working metaphor is something like, "Culture is a house built upon a genetic foundation. If the foundation, the capacity, is there then the culture can take hold. But for any individual, cultural constructs will collapse to their point of sound genetic foundation."
(And if you don't believe me, try teaching good financial habits to someone with a nasty FOXP2 mutation. Or for that matter a sturgeon.)
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
an entire $60m progressive movie (which bombed) out of his own pocket after the studios refused to fund it
Which was that? Strange Magic? Admittedly I'd never heard of it before going looking.
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Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Everyone has geography and everything that's ever happened is historical happenstance.
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Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Can You Guess Why The Little Mermaid Is a Huge Hit But Not In China?
The backlash is due to Halle Bailey being chosen to portray main character Ariel.
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According to Box Office Mojo, Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid has only grossed $3.6 million in mainland China since it opened there on May 26. The Chinese box office tracker Endata confirmed that the film made 19.5 million yuan ($2.7 million) in its first five days. In comparison, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse made 142 million yuan (nearly $20 million) in the first five days after its release.
Now I may be a simple country hyperchicken, but it seems to me that Spider-Verse also featured a black main character. Seems like an odd comparison to make, given their narrative.
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Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
To be clear the question was rhetorical. Of course an outsider can see things an insider cannot, but so vice versa.
What can I tell you of Germans? I have only recently discovered that I am not one. Yet I feel a great affinity for what that people, begging your pardon, had been.
You tell me - how would you go about restoring an entire nation that's almost a century into its own dismantling, dilution and degradation?
Christ.
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Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
For reference, an Orthodox Christian is expected to pray upon waking, at noon, and upon retiring, if not twice also through the night if a monk; he is expected to pray before each meal and upon exiting a doorway, initializing a car, or upon seeing an ambulance, etc., and I really do mean etc.. Faith without works is dead.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
Sure, it's better to be alive now in the first world than at any previous point in time. Our material well-being is historically pretty maximal, though we may have peaked just about now.
This is a popular talking point and even Jordan Peterson capitulated on this when he was murdering those Swedes, but I have my doubts. The worthiness of human existence is not defined by material comfort, and I suspect that many a man exists in these benighted latter days who would have been much happier in an era of shitty rights, worse food, and a faithful and stalwart wife who would bear him many children. Your mileage may vary but I know which I would choose, were I not blesséd enough to have both.
Re: Germanity, what can I say but F. I doubt very much if that race can be reconstituted but if I have the opportunity and no greater obligation I surely will accomplish this thing.
Unsaying
Lord, have mercy.
1yr ago
I'm low-key trying to sneak back in and start answering people. You're welcome, and thanks for expressing your gratitude. I find that when I bother to openly bare my naked thought patterns to others I tend to get 40% telling me I'm dumb and crazy in one direction, 40% telling me I'm dumb and crazy in the opposite, incompatible direction, and 20% who seem to feel as though I've just expressed something that had been driving them crazy at best or totally opaque to them at worst. It's that 20% for whom I write, and their gratitude is what I want to keep going.
Well they're not teenagers now.
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