POLITICAL HUMOR & SATIRE

[rothschild]

Why do you always have to belittle people? You treat some of us like we are incapable of free thinking and talk about us being programmed, and Love Child has books that interest her and you tell her it's a fad. Stuff like that. You can be a real buzzkill, rothschild.

She sounded whiny to me, with her "same old BS" whinge. And social justice IS a fad now -- totally. You know how long that shit's been around? Since the 1500's.

Reading books is wonderful, but it doesn't make you morally superior to those who haven't read them. Knowing something is worthless if you don't have the ability to communicate it to others, and that is an immensely challenging capability -- but not impossible.

As long as racism has been around.

I don't think I am morraly superior. I didn't say I was.

I know you didn't. It's my perception of you. But I also think you have a lot of human potential.

Racism is part and parcel of tribalism, which is why identity politics feeds into racism. If we want to end racism we're going to have to come together as a single tribe -- the human tribe.

That sounds great in theory of course. But I wonder if when you say that you mean that black people, or people of color need to adjust or come together. What does it look like for white people to meld together with people of color to come together as one tribe.

Also why must people all be one tribe? We all come from different places-is there not a place where we can all celebrate our differences and uniqueness w/out being unfair to one people?

I think what you may be asking is for people of color to give up saying that they are unfairly treated, or that laws in America have been unfair to some people and benefited others.

Here's a book that I think is essential to understanding the mechanics of a just socio-economics: Political Economy, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the main premise of which is that ethics and virtue are the only things that can overcome corruption, which is at the root of every single problem that plagues humankind. It's the only problem we have, really, and once it is brought under control, we are free of the manipulation of those who've kept us under their thumb for thousands of years. Corruption is what maintains systemic injustice, and that cannot be overcome with ideology, any more than addiction can be overcome with ideology. Ideology is merely a tool for gaining power, or maintaining control of it. Bind people together with a belief in false promises so they do your bidding, and once your objectives are achieved you do as you will with them. Use people for as long as they're useful and then discard them, and we see this throughout history, over and over, again and again.

It isn't diversity that holds a society together, but rather, commonality, and our commonality far exceeds are petty differences, which are exaggerated so as to make us afraid of each other. We all have need of food, water, shelter, love, security and freedom. Every single one of us on this planet. Variety brings beauty to the world, but it is superficial in comparison to the spiritual underpinnings of this system we inhabit. We are all brothers and sisters, thus we are of one tribe, and if we stand together, we can have everything we need and much of what we want.

I am not at all of the opinion that blacks haven't suffered terribly for hundreds of years, and I seek an end to the corruption that has facilitated it, so we can all have healthy and vibrant communities with healthy and vibrant economies; I want nothing whatsoever to do, however, with the emerging transhumanism, that is nothing more than cybernetics dressed up to look edgy and exciting. Hitler dreamed of that kind of society, as did Lenin and Mao. They promised the masses utopia, and instead murdered well over a hundred million, while the bankers who financed them made a killing, figuratively and literally.