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Someday, people will live in a world where both errors are funny for the same reason. Right now we've got a lot of cultural baggage we unintentionally picked up

by jfoutz 10y ago

Someday, people will live in a world where both errors are funny for the same reason. Right now we've got a lot of cultural baggage we unintentionally picked up over the years. I'm glad most people are aware enough to see it as a disaster, and maybe they're able make some adjustments to their values, slowly influencing our collective cultural values. I doubt i'll ever see it, but hopefully 10 generations down the road, it'll be funny for everyone. I wish there was a way to make things like that go faster, but it seems like most people have a hard time changing at that level. On the upside, my parents are less racist than my grandparents. I like to think i'm less racist than my parents. The only effective method for that kind of change seems to be the people holding old values just dying off.

sangnoir 10y ago
> Right now we've got a lot of cultural baggage we unintentionally picked up over the years. "Unintentionally"? That's an optimistic take on history (recent and non-recent), considering the institutionalized/codified nature of the said "baggage".
- jfoutz 10y ago
  Individual intention. I didn't build those institutions or codes. Yet those institutions and codes influenced my development, and continue to manipulate me. History is history. It's how we got here and what built the culture we deal with today. For example, 250 years ago those institutions came to the conclusion the 3/5ths compromise was a good idea. 150 years ago they reversed their opinion. We're still dealing with a zillion consequences of those decisions. No one alive today had any influence over any of that. We're told this is how the world was, this is how the world is. Some people recognize, no, the world doesn't have to be this way and make changes. But i think that's rare. Most people just sort of accept what they're told and go on with their lives.

by jfoutz 10y ago

sangnoir 10y ago

> Right now we've got a lot of cultural baggage we unintentionally picked up over the years. "Unintentionally"? That's an optimistic take on history (recent and non-recent), considering the institutionalized/codified nature of the said "baggage".

jfoutz 10y ago
Individual intention. I didn't build those institutions or codes. Yet those institutions and codes influenced my development, and continue to manipulate me. History is history. It's how we got here and what built the culture we deal with today. For example, 250 years ago those institutions came to the conclusion the 3/5ths compromise was a good idea. 150 years ago they reversed their opinion. We're still dealing with a zillion consequences of those decisions. No one alive today had any influence over any of that. We're told this is how the world was, this is how the world is. Some people recognize, no, the world doesn't have to be this way and make changes. But i think that's rare. Most people just sort of accept what they're told and go on with their lives.