just figured some shit out. im gonna blow this motherfucker wide open. heads will roll
the little mermaid (1989) was a kids movie about a mermaid who wants to become a human sort of like weeabos want to become japanese and rich layabouts want to become mediocre artists. straightforward enough. seems innocent enough
the movie was based on a 🚩🚩🚩danish🚩🚩🚩 story by a man named hans "christian" andersen
in keeping with disney tradition, culture and ethnicity of the characters matches the national origin of the story, eg prince "Eric"
this is were the trouble starts
ladies and gentlemen, this movie does NOT take place along the north sea. nor does it take place along the baltic
consider the evidence
"Eric" tries to kiss ariel in a "blue lagoon"
the location is apparently semi-tropical. here are the north and baltic coasts of denmark for contrast. no "lagoons" here
local wildlife include singing flamingos. here is the natural range of the flamingo
could they be from the private menagerie of the king of Denmark? perhaps. but this is suggestive that he at least kept them outside comfortably.
and lets consider "erics" attire.
the careful viewer will identify his dress as red sea rig, favored originally by the british navy and later in the diplomatic corps
no self-respecting royal would wear this attire north of hamburg
well. this is all very interesting. clearly the movie is set abroad.
in a danish colony.
heres a map of their empire. compare once more with the range of flamingos
the obvious site from contextual clues is the danish gold coast of africa
however, this doesnt work because red sea rig had barely been /invented/ in the mid 19th century, and rhe danish gold coast was sold off in 1850. plus the gold coast is arid rather than lush
no. this was further east on the far side of the indian ocean
everything fits. the nicobar islands were the last noneuropean colonies abandoned by the dutch, and they could have attended them in red sea rig in 1868. the sale to the uk is further convenient for two reasons
first of all, it explains why Eric would be on a far flung island in red sea rig at all. hes there to oversea the transfer of the islands to the british navy on behalf of his empire and hes wearing clothes to their standard. this is so neat i think its a deliberate tip by disney
second of all, it explains why everyone in a dutch colony is unexpectedly white
wouldnt you have local Help? not if everyone had died of infectious disease from the europeans, or if the europeans had a quarantine to avoid illness themselves
clearly the little mermaid is a story of colonialism and genocide. but that history you know. the truth in the little mermaid is much grimmer
heres a little question for you. if the little mermaid takes place on nicobar island . . . why are the mermaids white
to answer this question we need to revisit aquatic ape theory
AAT speculates that humans diverged from apes when they became more adapted to an aquatic environment. clearly in TLM, AAT was correct; and furthermore at least one branch of humans took it even further, evolving convergently with cetaceans
the most parsimonious explanation for why Eric and Ariel are (1) both white, (2) able to understand each others language, and (3) mutually attracted to one another rather than repulsed is that they share a recent common heritage both genetically and linguistically
put another way, eric and ariel are both offshoots of of the yamnaya expansion--and given their linguist proximity probably a recent wave too. most likely the same wave conquered local land populations, and then further intermixed with the local indigenous fish maidens
so fine: a recent common wave of aryan conquerors took both the land and the sea. the sea conquest took centuries and reached at least as far as nicobar, where a grandee set in place his kingdom
in his wake he left genocide
those indigenous fish people were not the only indigenous fish people. to get to nicobar King Triton's ancestors would have had to cut their way from the north sea, through biscay and around the cape of good hope, past egypt and lanka, slaughtering everyone in their path
TLM is a story drenched in an ocean of blood, a secret history mouldering behind a blithe animated romp like a murder victim immured beneath wallpaper
Eric imagines he is marrying into royalty, but he will bed a monster. His children will walk on land, yet their hearts will be the hearts of the Scourge-beneath-the-Waves
his wedding marks the start of a new age of Man. an age of blood and tears
anyway. just a little something to think about when you watch disney movies. never can be too sure what your feeding you kids and you dont want em to grow up. you know.
funny
cannot BELIEVE disney went woke on this. mfs are going to doom us all and they know EXACTLY what theyre doing
as I've written before--I can't find the thread--pseudonymy is easily defended. it has had a substantial tradition in american discourse since the founding
and there are very good reasons for maintaining it, even--*especially*--in a political context
the thought foremost in my mind is, education is going to become much more important for our children. not as a means of earning a living but as a means of becoming realized and independent humans in a dehumanizing age
the notion of education in the latter 20th century being wholly a matter of practical knowledge rather than of personal development has always been exaggerated
but set aside practicality; imagine a world where bodily survival and provision are not dependent on such learned skill
there is still a purpose to education in conveying to children the ways of living, thinking and acting and speaking, that we have found worthy
that is, the point of such education is guiding a child to becoming the kind of person who it is worth being for a lifetime
i was curious if or how they might justify any such moves
explicitly calling it "compelled speech" in a public statement is much more assertive than I'd expected
i wonder where this new respect for speech freedom is coming from ha ha
but fr i hadn't expected this and it feels like a big deal
it's the first meaningful rollback of Awokening policy, and MIT doing it in these terms gives significant elite cover to other schools that might _want_ do it
this isnt just netflix or doritos this is every product
the main reason it tends to be more pronounced in tech products is that tech products have vastly better and cheaper telemetry than legacy industries and it's easy to run sufficiently-powered A/B tests on consumers
facebook in particular was when i was there incredibly well-developed in this kind of measurement; their internal tooling and organizational practices in product analytics were afaik the best in the world
it was an exquisite organizational and technical accomplishment
i won't get into details although I don't think it's much of an industrial secret
but basically, the impact of every feature change and every product team could be rigorously measured and tracked and usually were
there was a ton of upside to this but perhaps one major downside