Yes, like one of Pavlov's mutts, when I hear counters to my beloved position (and common sense), it's like hearing bells that cause my slobber/blabber glands to kick in. I can't help myself.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:08 pmWhen you, Seeds, share your ideology and your perspective, it is as an activist for that view. When an idea is submitted — merely mentioned — that seems counter to your belovèd position, it excites your activism and lo! you appear, ready for battle, in glorious shimmering chainmail, and sporting a helmet with an ostrich feather (which I admire tremendously BTW).
And what you don't seem to understand is that these ideas regarding "identity" (make that "identitarianism," because it's more funner) aren't changing fast enough. And that's because guys like you are trying to maintain the status quo of the "old paradigm."Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:08 pm So, whether you like or not, and whether you understand it or not, ideas are changing at a cultural level in Europe and America. And the issue of identity is definitely being discussed.
I do believe that you may indeed have good intentions. Nevertheless, your misguided thinking and insistence that humans should remain forever divided based on race, ethnicity, national heritages/boundaries, religion, etc., is never going to prepare us earthlings for membership in the "Galactic Federation of Planets."
I mean, geez, how could neanderthalic humans (Trump supporters, for example) ever accept the existence of highly intelligent, but radically different looking phenotypes of beings who have evolved on other planets if we can't even accept the existence of the ever-so-slight (skin color, facial feature) differences between members of our own species?
Hey man, don't be a downer.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:08 pm The universalism of 1960s hippies is just one perspective. There are others and (having studied them) they have validity and relevance.
I think it would be groovy and outa sight if after I get my paisley shirt, bell bottom trousers, blacklight posters, and incense out, and after we've smoked a nice fat doobie of Acapulco Gold, we can then rap about this bummer of a situation of why you want to impede humanity's transition into a "new paradigm" of global unity.
Can you dig what I'm sayin'?
(Speaking of the 60s, do your funny bone a favor and listen to this Firesign Theatre skit describing the arrival of the "True White Brother" from the perspective of Native Americans - https://youtu.be/wjNqlhPFc4Y )
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