Things are so dire we could LOGICALLY eat humans. But that's disgusting haha, we totally agree we should never do that haha
So just stop eating meat and eat bugs instead! Whew. Isn't that so much nicer than the option we just used to shock your sensibilities with?
Some in our sphere have argued this perverse new push of "eat the crickets, bigot" is just clickbait, basic PR for various Silicon Valley bug-farm startups
Well, there isn't any of that here. Is there.
It's just propaganda for why you need to accept a declining standard of life
I like how they slide in "there's also the prospect of cultured meat technology." The promise is, obvs, that things will get worse for you in the short term
But don't worry. Your Silicon Valley saviors will have you eating burgers again in no time
You just have to trust them!
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GoT hooked me, as it did many, for its "gritty realism," its willingness to discard le tropes
But the further I got into it, and the more it revealed its vision of human nature, the more unreal it felt to me. It felt like Martin didn't actually understand people at all.
It seemed to think nearly everyone, certainly those that ever "won," were only motivated by pure power, sex, material etc
But that's a huge blind spot to the human craving for religion, ideology, and frankly, glory—think Theoden's speech, at the battle for Minas Tirith
Yes, a huge part of this was about music critics trying to just allow each other (esp. themselves) to just *enjoy* pop music instead of being guillotined by Pitchfork etc for their plebeian taste
The hipster internet circular firing squad kind of predicted the leftism to come
Art being immeasurable, its criticism was always meant to be something of a brawl
Once critics couldn't come out and say "Best Creed album in years!" without risk of Total Social Death, and were too timid to resist this pressure, the "experts" pretty much ceased to be of use
The premise here was that you increasingly weren't *allowed* to like (certain forms of) pop music and remain a Member in Good Standing, admitting you liked Group X rendered your entire taste moot, exposing you as a kind of "music chud," all opinions discarded
No, we're not doing this again. Imperial units are proportioned to the human body (measure your forearm against your foot sometime) over thousands of years of living
Metric system is just something murderous French rationalists made up to scrub the world of our connection to it
The most brutal refutation of this is that we never switched to a metric system of time. Why don't we have re-standardized "10 hour days," composed of 100 "minutes" each, composed of 100 "seconds" each?
Because people don't live by factors of 10. They live by *the planet*
The inventors of the metric system *did* try to make this happen, of course, but it never took hold because it was deranged
Because, extend the logic further. Maybe we should divide the year into 10ths, too? Now we have 10 months and each month has 10 days. Very reason
Do you remember how after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump the left created a conspiracy theory it must be fake based on the idea no person would stand up like this after he was just shot in the head
These are both examples of "prey morality." Life-forms who are biologically unable to understand the concept of humans who are willing to directly challenge other human predators. Who tell you to "freeze" when they get preyed on
My personal stories about illegals aren't even that bad. No murders, rapes, etc.
But if you work with immigrants for long enough, they will eventually start bringing in co-ethnic workers even *they* can't trust. And you won't know what these people are like until after the fact