Much of the western world is best described as a contentious
and polarized place(s) with a hefty tint towards the fractal. There is an obvious
explanation for noticing the fractal patterns in medium to large Western cities,
Western countries and the entire World by simply noting that there are
different cultures and some can cultures get along with each other, while some
cultures do not.
A culture is made up more than just its foods, clothes,
languages, and arts as there are also the general attitudes and the moral
positions that are part of the package. In the year of someone’s Lord 2018, the
Prime Minister of Canada is quoted as having said "There is no core
identity, no mainstream in Canada,'' and then went on to explain that Canada
doesn’t define itself as a ‘nation state’ as strongly as the European nations
do. This idea was flushed out more in more detail in the article “TITLE-TBD” published on Dec
12th, 2023.
The ‘sub’ prefix in subculture use to mean subset though now
it seems to imply subversion; how that shift happened has not been made
obvious, though there are plenty of decent speculations to go around. It now seems
that we can now bare witness to what happens when a non-subculture, but a
completely different culture, enters Trudeau’s mosaic based pseudo-reality Canada. In
1933, on the baseball field at Christie
Pits Park
in Toronto CA. there was a ‘mostly peaceful protest’ when the team from the
German neighborhood was to play a game with a team from the Jewish
neighborhood; that game was not completed.
The current political mantra seems to be boiled down to
something as simple as ‘listen and believe’, be this applied to ‘the experts’, ‘the
science’ or some other group and if you don’t believe or at least pretend you
believe then you will be called an anti-something-phobe. If you show that the
L&B narrative does have holes, there will be attempts to cut out your digital
tongue as it were.
DISCLAIMER: This
writing contains no legal advice, medical advice, or financial advice because the
worst vice is advice.
On Punching Down
When a 3rd party accuses the party of the first
part is punching down towards the party of the second part, the 3rd
party has just judged that the party of the first part has superiority over the
party of the second part, thus showing the 3rd party’s bigotry.
On Loving Ukraine but Hating
Ukrainians
War is known as ‘the meat grinder of men’ that eventually
boils down to numbers, the number of bullets, the number of missiles, the
number of tanks and ultimately the number of men. In 2022, the year of the
recent invasion, the population of Russia
was 144.2 M and that of Ukraine
was 38 M; rough math shows that Ukraine
would have to maintain a 3.5 to 1 kill ratio over the Russians to simple hold ground
assuming all things being equal. For the last two some odd year things had been
somewhat equal as both sides have had an average age of just over 40, though things
are not so equal anymore as Ukraine recently lowered the age of their draft from
27 to 25. One indicator of how any war is going is just how far outside the
category of ‘disposable men’ either side is willing to go.
A question to be asked of those who support this war: Is the
funding being put forward to support war or is the war being put forward to
support the funding?
On Reading the Room I
Historically, being a man was dangerous yet simple while
being a woman was safer yet quite complicated. Regardless if one is on the
social construct team or the evolutionary team, and each side can explain why,
that when a man and a woman walk into a room each of them will first scope out
the women already present. Why precisely this happens is beyond the scope of
this author, though it does happen, though some assumptions can be made as to
what the drivers are.
Incentive is the root cause for both the male and the female
gaze, as people are and have always been driven by incentive. The next step in
this argument is to posit what the general incentives are for the typical man
and the typical woman entering the room, using the old school definition of men
and women. The male eye seeks out the women in the room for reproductive
reasons, with the caveat being that the ‘he’ is hoping, remembering or both.
The female eye seeks out the women in the room for hierarchal reasons with the
caveat being the ‘she’ sorting out if they are over-dressed or under-dressed
for the occasion; why this is important is beyond the scope of the knowledge
for this author.
At the party, young women looking for husbands and husbands
looking for young women is not as equal as it first appears.
On Reading the Room
II
‘Confession through projection’ is the way of saying every
person will look at the world as if the whole world acts as they would act; an
act that could be labeled as a micro-judgment. “I’m not judging” are
objectively the words of a liar, subjectively though the words are seen as typically
harmless due to what the words imply; the insinuation is that the liar will not
be honest in conveying their judgment towards ‘the other’ for the purpose of avoiding
some or all confrontation(s). A parallel can be found in a mother eating a
flour based brick tells ‘little Billy’ that his cake tastes wonderful, a white
lie as it were.
On War
“Si vis pacem, para bellum”, is from the Latin and it means
"If you want peace, prepare for war". The “Western world” has
developed a level of hubris where by it is assumed that the maxim above need
not apply. Many people are currently being reminded that War is and always will
be the very nature of existence. For the most part every non-mutually
beneficial engagement or interaction is a war; though it is not War, seeing as
there are predefined rules of conduct adhered to by all parties.
For ‘gits and shiggles’ as it were, please go to your
favourite search engine and enter ‘define war’. One may not have to scroll down
too far to find out that there is a legal definition for War thus making War
governed by ‘the law of armed’ conflict, which is also known as “International
Humanitarian Law.” Authoring legislation must involve some sort of psychedelic
drug consumption because the normal use of the word ‘humanitarian’ as an
adjective is – ‘concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare’.
The International Criminal Court has 124 Party State
members out of the 195 countries globally psst… US, Russian, England and China are not on the list. The ICC
is under scrutiny from the United Nations, a UN where 130 member-states effectively
disagree with the location or the outright existence of Israel; with two-thirds of the body created to
maintain world peace, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to see why Israel has had
such a hard time of things over the years.
The good people at The Oxford Dictionary say that genocide
means ‘the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular
nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group’, while
the UN offers up as part of its definition ‘genocide means any of the following
acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group’; the acts can be found on the United
Nations’ genocide prevention web site. The word means ‘identifiable (including
within a geographically limited area) and "substantial."’
It seems that, like so many other words these days, the word
GENOCIDE has fallen into the ‘Pit of Hyperbole’. Israel was fully out of The Gaza
Strip in 2005 leaving behind some 1.31 million people, some fifteen years later
that population grew to around 2.1 million. The current death toll within Gaza is hovering around
35,000 resulting in a population reduction of 0.0167, which hardly seems ‘substantial’.
Ending on a sardonic note, perhaps this ruckus internationally
would have been avoided if only Israel
had put an iPhone assembly plant in The Gaza Strip with nets attached to the
building to stop child labourers from committing suicide.
The first human being
who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Attributed to Sigmund
Freud (1856-1939)
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