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oh wow that's an astonishingly wholesome take on it. and now that i think about it, one that is quite resonant with my own experience of it in retrospect. it wa
by ozzmotik 7y ago
oh wow that's an astonishingly wholesome take on it. and now that i think about it, one that is quite resonant with my own experience of it in retrospect. it was certainly an extremely humanizing piece and i think in that regard, it's doing one of the most noble honors (at least in my moral framework): striving to eliminate xenophobia. so much in this world tries to divide us by our national identity and our ethnicities, etc, but at the end of the day, we are all just one species, and any difference that we perceive physically is just a side effect of phenotype expression, and any other more abstract difference such as belief, etc, is a side effect of the culture and society surrounding that phenotypical substrate. we work so hard to divide ourselves from our core nature, which is to cooperate and seek novelty, so it's quite cathartic to see a piece that tries to eliminate a substantial contributor to that division.
- microcolonel 7y ago> so much in this world tries to divide us by our national identity and our ethnicities, etc It is precisely that we have real, inescapable conflicts that makes it heartening to see something transcend that. If it transcended nothing, what would it mean? Probably nothing.
- ozzmotik 7y agothis is certainly accurate. without the presence of the xenophobia in the first place, there would be no means to appreciate it when people manage to transcend it. and xenophobia obviously exists on a biological and instinctual level and has been selected for for a reason so it obviously serves a purpose, it's just a problem when it overactivates. it's all about balance and understanding that just because you feel a certain way, doesn't mean that you have to put it out there on the world