mr reasonable wrote:Well I guess you're right. You can totally exploit a continent and steal resources from all over it, leave a few places in decent shape, then come back 100 years later and forgive some of their debts to you, and then say, "hey look at these inferior people who can't get it together", after capitalizing on the wealth that you jacked from them for 100 years. Yes. That makes total sense.
Zoot Allures wrote:You can give that criticism to those who have exploited africa, yes. But you'd have to give that same criticism to Africans as well. They do the very same thing to each other, only on a more savage scale. Remember the Rawanda genocide in the early nineties.
If you are to critize a victimizer you have to criticize something that the victim is not also guilty of.
Zoot Allures wrote:What? If anything colonists and imperialists united African tribes by developing infrastructure there. They didn't divide anything. The tribal divisions already existed, and continue to exist to this day. And you say 'the little bit that's left there to have'. The majority of that continent is quite capable of being modernized if those savages would just get their shit together. They gotta do it on their own, though, because the rest of the world is getting tired of trying to help those idiots.
I think you're a case of being brainwashed by the propaganda in rap music and the liberal media, MR. You betta reconize.
So they should be modernized just like the decadent west - please note I am connecting positions that seem to be forgotten by proponents, read: irony. Summations like yours here are as if the West or Europe or large asian conglomerates have left AFrica to its own devices and look, they are messed up still. This is hardly the case: just a look at how corporations and say, the World Bank fuck with the countries over there gives the lie the self-fulfilling smugness of this position. And of course they had tribal divides and these were matched by geographical and economic divisions also. Now they have to work together in weird corporate subsidy 'countries' made up by the colonial powers Have no fear, however, they will soon enough, in historical terms, all be walking around with cellphones and tweeting and eating shit trasported from half way around the world and wishing they were Mylie Cyrus or Beyonce, I guess, just like everyone in 'the west'. NOtice however how the West is now treating its own like colonies, take Greece, say. Once the feeding frenzy over life in the 3rd world became a little gauche, the powers that be are quite happy to have tent cities and a huge underclass in the west also. Cheaper labor, larger law enforcement and so on. And lo, what do we see, the banks are still the major players dictating the at least pretend democracies in the West how they should live and what products they can protect and how many people they can hire in their governments. The chickens have come home to roost. The exact callous mechanical eye that so thuggishly and ignorantly 'interacted' with other cultures is now, more and more obviously, going to be interacting with you with precisely the same empathyless technocrat eye. They will patent your fucking eyes and your genes and make you and your childredn work faster and faster until that day they can replace you with machines or stick an interface in your 'I am so proud to be Euroamerican' brain.Zoot Allures wrote:What? If anything colonists and imperialists united African tribes by developing infrastructure there. They didn't divide anything. The tribal divisions already existed, and continue to exist to this day. And you say 'the little bit that's left there to have'. The majority of that continent is quite capable of being modernized if those savages would just get their shit together. They gotta do it on their own, though, because the rest of the world is getting tired of trying to help those idiots.
I think you're a case of being brainwashed by the propaganda in rap music and the liberal media, MR. You betta reconize.
Moreno wrote:So they should be modernized just like the decadent west - please note I am connecting positions that seem to be forgotten by proponents, read: irony. Summations like yours here are as if the West or Europe or large asian conglomerates have left AFrica to its own devices and look, they are messed up still. This is hardly the case: just a look at how corporations and say, the World Bank fuck with the countries over there gives the lie the self-fulfilling smugness of this position. And of course they had tribal divides and these were matched by geographical and economic divisions also. Now they have to work together in weird corporate subsidy 'countries' made up by the colonial powers Have no fear, however, they will soon enough, in historical terms, all be walking around with cellphones and tweeting and eating shit trasported from half way around the world and wishing they were Mylie Cyrus or Beyonce, I guess, just like everyone in 'the west'. NOtice however how the West is now treating its own like colonies, take Greece, say. Once the feeding frenzy over life in the 3rd world became a little gauche, the powers that be are quite happy to have tent cities and a huge underclass in the west also. Cheaper labor, larger law enforcement and so on. And lo, what do we see, the banks are still the major players dictating the at least pretend democracies in the West how they should live and what products they can protect and how many people they can hire in their governments. The chickens have come home to roost. The exact callous mechanical eye that so thuggishly and ignorantly 'interacted' with other cultures is now, more and more obviously, going to be interacting with you with precisely the same empathyless technocrat eye. They will patent your fucking eyes and your genes and make you and your childredn work faster and faster until that day they can replace you with machines or stick an interface in your 'I am so proud to be Euroamerican' brain.Zoot Allures wrote:What? If anything colonists and imperialists united African tribes by developing infrastructure there. They didn't divide anything. The tribal divisions already existed, and continue to exist to this day. And you say 'the little bit that's left there to have'. The majority of that continent is quite capable of being modernized if those savages would just get their shit together. They gotta do it on their own, though, because the rest of the world is getting tired of trying to help those idiots.
I think you're a case of being brainwashed by the propaganda in rap music and the liberal media, MR. You betta reconize.
There will likely be no discreet moment for you to feel the slightest bit of empathy for other people's who dealt with this 'outlook' in other countries and at other times because you will likely be so worried about your last tweet and whether you can afford to buy the correct outfit on the shit wages you have doing repetitive garbage as part of some corporation with more power than Belgium that makes shit that everybody needs to have.
YOu are confused about identities.
You're riding on the coattails of something with pride and that something views you as just another nigger to clean its porch
until that day it can cheaply replace you with the robot porch cleaner.
What a fucking civilization.
I am not completely sure the angle you are taking here. I mean, I understand the words and the sentences, but how they function as an argument. IOW let's agree, most people have few options. Does this mean something I said was incorrect?Arminius wrote:I agree, Moreno, as you know from my machine thread. But how many and which options do 99% of the current people have? And how many and which options do the current black Africans have?
Moreno wrote:I am not completely sure the angle you are taking here. I mean, I understand the words and the sentences, but how they function as an argument. IOW let's agree, most people have few options. Does this mean something I said was incorrect?Arminius wrote:I agree, Moreno, as you know from my machine thread. But how many and which options do 99% of the current people have? And how many and which options do the current black Africans have?
But now I will go ahead as if I understand you. I don't see most people as having many options. In my own life I have to fight to breathe, though this is at a level many would not understand, given their situations - most Africans for example. The difference, me guessing here, is that when I say I am a pagan, I mean this in perhaps a more literal sense than you do. I actually believe in stuff that does not fit with scientific consensus - though it doesn't actually contradict any well confirmed research either, whatever my metaphysical differences with scientism. I do think that there is an approach here and as I have said in your AI thread do not assume that AI will take over. But that's because I see possibilities available because of those same paradigmatic differences I just mentioned. Likewise in relation to the kinds of global societal changes that are now more openly (again) appearing in the West now that they do not need us - the people in the West - anymore as a base of operations.
Just to jump to the side: if you think that AI is going to take over and that the current global processes are inevitably leading to a dystopic future, why haven't you become a decadent hedonist? That option is problematic where there is something more valuable to be doing, more interesting, challenging, creative, etc, but if there is no hope....?
If you do see a way out - which seems implicit in the Pagan thread - how do you see this playing out?
Dude I would totally hang out at that barbeque with pokey and all those dudes.
I would go there and shake my nookie thang...if I even had one. If I shake my penis does that count?
Dude I would totally hang out at that barbeque with pokey and all those dudes.
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