I'll be heading off again tomorrow. Will try to get a substantive post up at some point, but no guarantees. If I don't get back in time, have a happy Easter.
In other news, I noticed that the dodgy hack which allowed me to pin the general conversation thread to the top of the page has stopped working. I assume this has something to do with the update that's made the Blogger dashboard look and work like a mobile phone app (even on desktop). I suppose this means I'll have to edit the template now if a want a permanently pinned post.
It's all so tiresome.*
* Let me know if you get this reference.
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Yeah I hate the Blogger dashboard now. What was great about it was that you could add ANY site to follow, but I'm wondering if it's worth it.
Hope your trip goes smoothly.
Had to go to know your meme, sorry.
Then again, I've had to explain All Your Base a few times to younglings, ahaha.
You used to be able to find that doco all over YouTube, but they went scorched earth on racist content after Trump got elected. If you do come across it though, it's well worth watching - an interesting little peak into how different cultures interact with each other outside of the sphere of white influence.
I recently saw something similar on Netflix about a Chinese company taking over a glass factory in the US which was fascinating. Didn't actually reflect that well on the Chinese managers either.
Empire is brutally racist from the perspective of both the Chinese bosses and the African workers. (It seems that white Europeans are the only ethnic group that are obsessed with achieving racial equality.)
There's a scene towards the end, where one of the Chinese bosses vents his frustrations with his African underling: "Look at all the infrastructure the Belgians built in this country. You had roads and railways long before we had them in China. Now look at where China is, and you couldn't even maintain the stuff somebody else gave you. What's wrong with you people."
Y'know, over the last couple of years, I've dived head first into a lot of different social and political philosophies, and a lot of my own beliefs have been severely tested as a result ...
If humans are a social animal that almost never live outside of a group, then why would you hold up individual rights and liberties as a measure of progress? Wouldn't it make more sense to look at the health and well-being of the group instead? Do people flourish more when they're called upon to sacrifice personal comfort for future generations, or when they're given the option to indulge in vice and self-satisfaction? Do mono-cultures outperform multicultural societies? How do cultures with a predominant sense of transcendent spirituality compare to purely rational atheism?
... To put it bluntly, I've had to reconsider my position on a lot of things.
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