I’m not a trekky so I’m afraid I can’t relate, however if the Borg are anything like the Zerg in Starcraft, then what I’m saying about the reality of the world - whether I like it or not by the way - fits what I’m saying pretty well, sure. Come to think of it, it’s a clever little scenario that the makers of the game came up with when it comes to attracting the target audience i.e. gamers. Generally gamers are outcasts who have turned away from the normal life and towards an alternative virtual one, and Starcraft presents a fabricated reality where the good guys (the human “Terran”) are fighting against an infesting malignant conformity that’s threatening their way of life, yet on the other hand the alien “Zerg” might be more tempting to play in order to achieve a more angry catharsis through destroying humanity altogether. Perhaps there’s a similar sentiment behind the Borg in Star Trek, you tell me.
It’s a sad reflection that I am often met with when I present reality as I see it objectively, and it is assumed that people including myself are only ever out there to sell their biased subjective agenda - which is often taken for granted by them because that is the method they are adopting themselves. I am not advocating anything. I am simply presenting how the world is, whether you/I like it or not. I am interested in truth, not a story.
I like what little property I own being mine, but I’ve never once needed to actively defend it beyond locking my doors. But then, I’ve never lived “in the hood”. From what little I know of such places, it seems that people only “get shanked” when they/others have stupidly set up “gangs” with “territories” - presumably just to feel any kind of semblance of ownership at all in a world where they own relatively very little yet they need to think of themselves as big - and you violate this arbitrary claim. Either that or some desperate guy wants things of value and you’re both having a bad day - or cowardly people just wanna feel big and pick on someone just for a petty ego boost. It’s all cowardly and breeds cowardliness in retaliation - completely pointless and something that you should stay away from, but admittedly should participate in to as minimal a degree as possible if you can’t escape for whatever reason. Do educate me if you feel the need.
I would say that both your depiction of “the Christian right” and his depiction of “the left” both apply to a certain proportion of people in the West, only the PC “social justice crusaders” aren’t Left in the slightest by the very “virtue” of the Social Authoritarianism that they share with the Christian right. That’s right wing, always has been. Inverting the identity of the liberal hippie into social justice warriors is ridiculous if only thought about for a second, whatever name it goes by, which seems to completely escape this fanatic to whom you’re responding.
Perhaps you and Serendipper would agree with me that it’s the Social Authoritarians who “have no devotion or fealty to logic and reason”, and “cannot be reasoned with. Period.” as he so delicately put it a few posts ago? Not “the left” in general, or the reasonable right.