05-04-2019, 03:42 PM
(05-04-2019, 02:17 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(05-03-2019, 07:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Diversity + proximity = war? Then explain Switzerland. OK, so Switzerland is too bourgeois for that sort of thing. Now what about all the civil wars that have erupted in India between Muslims and Hindus since 1950 outside of Jammu and Kashmir. Ethnic strife has been rare between white Anglos and Hispanics in America, West Side Story notwithstanding. Diversity + proximity = war? Only when the divergent communities are veritable gangs. If you think that diversity + proximity = war, try Vancouver, where the disparate people differ less by skin color than anything else. That's right -- Europeans and Chinese. OK, so white Canadians and Chinese-Canadians share a desire for order, a respect for the value of education, and prosperity.
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I have my idea of what constitutes genius -- breaking the rules and getting something wonderful and even obvious after the fact as with J S Bach. Insanity is breaking the rules, getting bad results, and pretending that the results are wonderful, as with Donald Trump.
Insanity is claiming to be against the rules while going along with the rules, seeing and accepting bad results while still believing or hoping something wonderful will eventually occur or end up coming out of it. Well, you're a white man affiliated with a party that seems to hate white men/white people for some reason, yet you continue to support it for some reason without questioning its motives or its reasons for hating people like you so much these days.
The Democrats reject the idea of White Power, basically the idea that white people have some entitlement to privilege just for being white. Would I sacrifice white privilege to divest myself of Asperger's syndrome? Sure. To achieve in music in a normal lifespan what Charlie Parker did in 34 years and then go to even bigger and better things in more years? Sure. Would I take on drug addiction that eventually killed Charlie Parker by weakening him? No. But this is all hypothetical stuff.
Quote:I'm not concerned because I'm affiliated with a powerful American group that doesn't care about skin tone or gender or much of anything else directly related to blue identity politics. What is going to eventually happen to a bunch of clowns who are foolish enough to mess around and do its best to hinder/stifle American progress? Well, I for one don't really care about what eventually happens to them.
Much of American progress comes now from people who have skin color much like mine but otherwise look very different. I cannot readily distinguish many Chinese, Koreans, or Japanese from Europeans by skin color. Tiny noses and the epicanthic fold? Yes. Hair color? When I was young, I had hair coloring that many women would kill for, so to speak -- frosted blond atop brown. But that is long past. My hair is undeniably gray to white. I started to go gray when I was a teenager.
Considering the diversity within the Democratic Party, which has the support of middle-class blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and Muslims, Democrats are not going to break up over identity politics. Democrats are picking up support from middle-class whites who are nominal Christians due to the anti-intellectual bilge that emanates from the foul mouth and foul Twitter-fingers of Donald Trump. We Democrats may know of our superficial differences, but we all seem to respect the value of learning.
I have far more in common with a black liberal than I do with a white Trump supporter because I share more values with middle-class blacks than with ignoramuses proud to be white. I am not proud to be white. I identify with a culture that one would expect of someone a mixture of German, Swiss, Dutch, English, Welsh, and Scots-Irish ancestors because such is what I have as ancestors. I 'lack' the arrogance to see my origins as a virtue.
Quote:As I've mentioned before, once the country splits and blue America finds itself separated from the rest of America. What goes on within blue America ain't going to matter at that point because the rest of America will no longer have much of an interest in Blue America at that point. Our only interest will pertain to who Blue America eventually aligns itself with as far as global powers. Unfortunately, I don't see the people of Blue America having any say in that decision.
No. The future is with the people with good habits -- competence, sobriety, rationality, industry, and thrift -- as opposed to incompetence, drunkenness and addiction, madness, laziness, and waste. From us will come the professionals, the creative people, and even the canny entrepreneurs. The best of your kids will join us, and they will be and feel welcome.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.