I saw a drone picture today of an apparently un-contacted Amazon tribe’s settlement, and all I could think is why am I looking at this? For god’s sake, get the drone out of there and never send it back.
Also, that is an amazing factoid about the metric system.
I saw that photo, too. What the hell is wrong with us? Leave them alone. It's like that tribe on the island off India who shoot arrows at the helicopters we sent to "check" on them during covid. I mean hello, they don't have covid. They killed some missionary asshole who went there without permission. And all I could think was "Good."
As the saying goes, the graveyards are filled with "indispensable" men. It would be nice if more "indispensable" men had their replaceability pointed out to them during their lifetimes. Good to see Weinstein get his, if decades too late. Take a bow, Courtney Love.
I've never had a hero, either political or otherwise. Sure, I admire certain people, but when asked "Who are your heroes?" I struggle to answer because there's no one I want to be or follow, even to entirely emulate. Jonas Salk and Rachel Carson seem like good role models, but surely they could be jerks at times to people near them, too, right? Would you want either over for tea? I don't know. It is easier to admire the dead, and usually safer. The living have a way of surprising us.
I sometimes wonder if the need to supplicate oneself to a god or leader or other "alpha" (to use the popular term, vulgar as it is) is somehow genetic, since there seems to be a big overlap between those who fawn over presidents, gods, billionaires, and quarterbacks. Maybe it's cultural? Hard to say. But focus on any one person's legacy, talent, or infallibility will always let you down.
Yes, I used to have heroes. Now I respect deeds. Because people who've done great things have been assholes to me. We've been venerating single leaders for many thousands of years. Not as long as we've been venerating our ancestors, but for ten thousand years in some cases. I think it is definitely cultural. I'm not qualified to make any sort of opinion, but let's say the First Nations, Australian and Americas, don't seem as beholden to this. They left Asia anywhere between 45 and 15 thousand years ago depending on what sites you recognize. Before "ranching" and large scale agriculture. It doesn't mean this opinion is even worthy of being a theory. But it makes you wonder if why the US is so authoritarian is because our mythology surrounds the cowboy, the armed knight of the Land Baron rancher, who makes his own law like a warlord.
Yep. The West was "won" through "self-made men" accepting to benefits of industrialized military conquest followed by land handouts & free water. Even the Lincoln County Wars were just about deciding which mercantile would get the beef supply contract for the cavalry base. Not that there weren't personal deeds worthy of respect, but our overarching myths are blatant propaganda which now holds us back from a better future.
I saw a drone picture today of an apparently un-contacted Amazon tribe’s settlement, and all I could think is why am I looking at this? For god’s sake, get the drone out of there and never send it back.
Also, that is an amazing factoid about the metric system.
I saw that photo, too. What the hell is wrong with us? Leave them alone. It's like that tribe on the island off India who shoot arrows at the helicopters we sent to "check" on them during covid. I mean hello, they don't have covid. They killed some missionary asshole who went there without permission. And all I could think was "Good."
No gods, no kings, no heroes.
As the saying goes, the graveyards are filled with "indispensable" men. It would be nice if more "indispensable" men had their replaceability pointed out to them during their lifetimes. Good to see Weinstein get his, if decades too late. Take a bow, Courtney Love.
I've never had a hero, either political or otherwise. Sure, I admire certain people, but when asked "Who are your heroes?" I struggle to answer because there's no one I want to be or follow, even to entirely emulate. Jonas Salk and Rachel Carson seem like good role models, but surely they could be jerks at times to people near them, too, right? Would you want either over for tea? I don't know. It is easier to admire the dead, and usually safer. The living have a way of surprising us.
I sometimes wonder if the need to supplicate oneself to a god or leader or other "alpha" (to use the popular term, vulgar as it is) is somehow genetic, since there seems to be a big overlap between those who fawn over presidents, gods, billionaires, and quarterbacks. Maybe it's cultural? Hard to say. But focus on any one person's legacy, talent, or infallibility will always let you down.
Yes, I used to have heroes. Now I respect deeds. Because people who've done great things have been assholes to me. We've been venerating single leaders for many thousands of years. Not as long as we've been venerating our ancestors, but for ten thousand years in some cases. I think it is definitely cultural. I'm not qualified to make any sort of opinion, but let's say the First Nations, Australian and Americas, don't seem as beholden to this. They left Asia anywhere between 45 and 15 thousand years ago depending on what sites you recognize. Before "ranching" and large scale agriculture. It doesn't mean this opinion is even worthy of being a theory. But it makes you wonder if why the US is so authoritarian is because our mythology surrounds the cowboy, the armed knight of the Land Baron rancher, who makes his own law like a warlord.
Yep. The West was "won" through "self-made men" accepting to benefits of industrialized military conquest followed by land handouts & free water. Even the Lincoln County Wars were just about deciding which mercantile would get the beef supply contract for the cavalry base. Not that there weren't personal deeds worthy of respect, but our overarching myths are blatant propaganda which now holds us back from a better future.