Re: what fantasy or sci-fi wrters do you have trouble connecting with?
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Sawfish (IP Logged)
Date: 29 May, 2021 09:17AM
Knygatin Wrote:
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> Sawfish Wrote:
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> > I think that it could happen that way, but you
> > could always move to Hungary, because if it's
> as
> > you say, you'll have next to zero chance to
> alter
> > it. I mean, this to me makes sense because
> you'd
> > have actual agency, whereas being a part of a
> > whining, hopeless mass of embittered and
> > emasculated drones will only cause you to lose
> > respect.
> >
> > It's not a question of what's right or wrong,
> but
> > what's possible and likely. You've got only one
> > life (as near as I can tell) and you can spend
> it
> > as Don Quixote, or his side-kick Sancho Panza.
> >
> > I realized this long ago and am in fact a very
> > well-heeled Sancho Panza, with enough assets to
> > buy my way into virtually any place I want.
> >
> > ...and I may yet do this, the point being that
> I'm
> > able precisely because I did not spend the last
> 40
> > years titling impotently at windmills, all the
> > while making myself a laughing stock.
> >
>
> Yes, you have a great personal advantage in this,
> not being an idealist. My brother has a lot of
> your attitude, and he and I often clash, he
> telling me that I should stop fighting windmills.
> And it is right, for my own good I need to
> modulate my posture, and be less idealistic.
>
> But even if a person is (overall) antiracist like
> you, or a "complete" antiracist like Hespire (if
> it is truly possible, having no racial preferences
> at all, from an aesthetic point of view), one
> should still be concerned about the stability of
> the society and country one lives in.
> Mass-immigration of un-adaptable clashing cultures
> will cause chafing, social chaos, economic
> problems, and may even lead to civil war. France,
> for example, fears an upcoming civil war between
> Muslims and Frenchmen.
>
> ... There I go again, fighting windmills. But, if
> no one cared about the larger social issues,
> everyone was a materialist egoist, then there is
> only the law of the jungle left (or succumbing
> under dictatorship). And that may not be
> preferable even for you, Sawfish. How far could
> you really run with your (digital) money? ...
> Still, I do admire your wisdom.
Very well expressed, K.
Absolutely I empathize with your personal position. There is no doubt in my mind that genetic preferences, based in part on race, would tend to cause me to group and reproduce within certain limits, but the reality is that I live in a very cosmopolitan time/place and in truth the sexual imperative seeks availability and variety, at least for males.
So that deals with the reproductive part.
The other part--which might be spiritual--works against selection by race. I've been with too many people I really like, a lot, who are not Caucasian, and met too many Caucasians who are quite simply scum, for me to see race as a primary triage.
So simply and bluntly, instead of seeing the world primarily thru a racial lens, I see it primarily as divide along a scum/non-scum axis. I see race, too, but the scum/non-scum evaluation easily trumps it in importance.
I feel that I know what you mean when you talk about Hungary; I have a cousin who retired to Dubrovnik two years ago for almost the exact same reason. A well-ordered society of reasonably happy individuals who adhere to a similar cultural understanding is VERY attractive. If it's multi-racial, that's fine, but if not, that's also fine. There is no inherent advantage to unconditional diversity, no matter what the current common "wisdom" dictates. It needs to be a sort of positive diversity, and not one predicated on celebrating differences (and implied superiorities), squabbling over ethnic ownership of certain practices, and nursing sniveling and often imagined grievances.
If people can get past that, I can find a way to live with just about anybody.
--Sawfish
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