Hardly - I suppose it depends upon how one defines “ambition”. A brilliant new system which allows people to accomplish what they had never done before is as ambitious as it gets. But I am not convinced that yet another dictator trying to be The Biggest Monkey in the Zoo is very ambitious, quite the contrary, I think it’s bafflingly primitive.
Precisely my point. People abhor flawed bodies, why do they indulge flawed reasoning?
As a geneticist, I have to say that PBS link is approaching postmodernist nonsense. Yes, mutations can occur multiple times in history. And yes, it is possible that some Greek islander populations experienced a mutation for sickle cell independent of the classical African origin. And some French Canadians have a mutation leading to a similar condition to Tay Sachs despite having no known Ashkenazi ancestry. But it is pretty dangerous to ignore that Ashkenazi Jews are at a risk for Tay-Sachs well beyond the norm, as are African-Americans for sickle cell. If I had to choose one genetic test for myself (ignoring that soon I as well as everyone else will likely have their entire genomes sequenced), as a white European-descended male with some Ashkenazi ancestry, I would certainly choose the Tay Sachs test.
Too narrow, How about Conscious Being? A pinch of the Universe maybe?
The double tap of the personality disordered.
Equally disastrous is thinking we know and can predict them,
Super disastrous is holding ourselves out as above them
Are you calling me a red piller? Because I wouldn’t consider myself one. I probably was at one time, when I was younger and more immature (if you can believe that is even possible). I like to think of myself as a social progressive of some kind. Perhaps even liberal. I try to be careful about examining my own views, and I don’t subscribe to “meritocracies” because the red piller view of merit is entirely Randian, and quite frankly disturbingly cultish.
There’s so much more to Kurosawa films than the plots, and other adaptations almost always pale in comparison even when Kurosawa is not the original source of the story (Throne of Blood is easily my favorite Macbeth). Kurosawa’s characters are just so much richer and more interesting than anyone else’s, which is the key to the genuine, natural humor he was able to produce.
Yojimbo is great in the way that one thinks A Fistful of Dollars is going to be great after seeing The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly first and expecting Fistful to measure up to that. Not that I think A Fistful of Dollars is bad, Yojimbo is just that good (the lesser-known sequel, Sanjuro, is worth seeing as well).
FWIW though his samurai films are peerless my favorite Kurosawa film is probably Ikiru, which has nothing to do with samurais or feudal Japan, and I’d strongly recommend that being your next viewing if you haven’t seen it.
I typed out a couple more paragraphs but then remembered how off-topic this is…
Yes. Though, these are more two spans of the continuum that everything has, spanning from “mild” through “still quite reasonable” to “batshit crazy”.
A friend of mine has a bee in his bonnet about right-wing Daily Telegraph commentators who are also into this ‘Cultural Marxists influenced by the Frankfurt School taking over our institutions’ thing. My friend did a Politics MA, and knows about this stuff. Apparently, ‘Cultural Marxists’ taking over arts/universities/journalism was a National Socialist obsession that was co-opted by the John Birch Society after the war, and it was the Birchers who added the Frankfurt School element.
To be honest, I didn’t really listen at the time, but remembered enough that when I encountered it in GamerGater rhetoric I took note. My friend was fascinated it has migrated over to the Libertarian, anti-feminist, pro-racism brigade.
I’ll try and remember to ask him for more information and links and stuff.
Well, there’s an implicit assumption somewhere in there that a society heavily focused on the individual is capitalist. The main Randian “heroes” in Atlas Shrugged are steel tycoons and railroad magnates - the “captains of industry” type.
Now, try to imagine a world where the rich and powerful went on strike to protest not getting their way enough, and that should give you an idea of how laughable “going Galt” actually is.
WHAT?!?!!?
I thought I you were an otherkin.
#Keep 'em coming folks!
I fucking love you. Back to reading this magnificent thread.
If only Ayn Rand had heard of workers councils, maybe we wouldn’t have to deal with Randians crazyness now.
The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in during the early 1970s is also contrary to Rand’s beliefs. Billy Connolly and Alex Ferguson were involved in it.
So…it’s a description of a political view…not an identity. No history exists of people being violently attacked, murdered, denied housing, denied employment, denied credit, denied promotion or training because of a class they belong too? It’s not just directed at women as a group? It’s not just women (as viewed by the people under this political banner) who are described with this political phrase?
It’s a slur because it accurately reflects the view that some people espouse? That’s not discrimination - it’s marketing.
I did meet a male terf once at a lgbtq discussion event. He managed to upset quite a few people there (not all of them trans) before agreeing to shut up about it under threat of being thrown out.
enjoyed this article. made this after reading it.
wow, he’s a shoe-in for the Hall of 'Splain.
I thought Redpill was specifically a MGTOW term. Oh well.
