Message from @Reaps
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As you talk to people from all over the world, and develop more kinship with the fat acceptance blogger in Scotland than with the pastor down the street, people stop giving a fuck about nationalism
Not all people obviously
But it degrades it
I've stumbled across so much good music simply from using Coub.com, which is basically a Russian "GIFs with sound" website
So am I just hopelessly lusting after a bygone Era of nationalism?
nah
Not necessarily. People haven't fully figured out how to deal with the internet
But they're slowly figuring it out
Paradigm shifts in life tend to balance out like this
Happened with TV and Radio
cultures have changed over the years regardless, often through foreign influence
^
This just opened the floodgates of that influences
Coming to Australia in the 90s and seeing everyone play basketball was pretty wtf in of itself
It ought to balance out
> People are so interconnected regardless of geographical distance that your social group is no longer determined by borders
Castle of sand. We're connected by the internet but we don't have the mechanisms to sustain the social aspects, so we end up disintegrating
Agreed
That's why I think it'll slide backwards from the initial craziness
But I guarantee you if you flick through the pages of history you'll often stumble across 'traiditional' american/german/british/russian/japanese cultural norms that turned out to have their origins in other places
think of how strongly people associate karate witih Japan nowadays
It's when I come across stuff like this that I get creeped out...
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-national-identity-important
huh
@Fitzydog those answers are pretty gay
it should be renamed to queera
Lol right? But look at those upvotes. If that's a popular opinion with no counter argument.... D:
tbh,it's not a very well seen question
there are actual nationalists on quora and they do get upvotes
@Fitzydog do you frequent quora or?
No, I'm just throwing shit at the wall, talking out my ass, and sampling the Internet waters.
IMO, this identitarian nonsense is really unhealthy and won't fade away on its own.
shits, assholes and water
got it
What can I say? I'm a plumber
"True Communism has never existed" is correct only insofar as Communism as is preached is fantasy
"True Communism has never been tried" is a bit more iffy, since many countries have tried to move towards implementing Communism - and the fact that everything has gone to shit before even reaching the end-goal is testament to the utopian fallacy of 'tw00' Communism
Regarding Quora, certain questions are just designed to fit a narrative.
yep
So only a certain group of people will look for them, and answer them.
Good point @Reaps
"Does capitalism kill more than communism?", nobody sane would ask that. Commies will flock to that question.
yep