Anyone could love God - the embodiment of perfection, beauty, abundance, strength. The challenge however is to love another human - weak, broken, ugly, stitched together with imperfections. Piety perhaps is not in falling in love with some imaginary fragment of our head but rather in actually loving someone that's right before us in flesh and blood, amidst all of the apparent imperfections, amidst all the weaknesses, to offer your hand and heart, in pulling them out of their condition, in giving them a chance to experience life in a renewed manner, a word of encouragement, a slice of support, a touch of care and affection, a kind word, a warming smile, a little generosity, a little understanding of human failings, a reassurance that life does give you second chances, a healing hand on their past bruises, a prayer for their silent traumas, an embrace that would accept them just the way they are. That's what love truly is all about - that's where our challenge as a race is - to love your fellow being first, before you make claims of superiority by loving an unseen God...
The new(ish) kinda non-Yellow Peril tactic (kinda) of Tech Oligarchs on AI
Because they are losing the rhetoric war, the next thing they are floating out is:
AI is the next industrial revolution
which is why we have to be racist assholes to Asians, and deregulate AI and build Data centers in the middle of land near generational homes.
Iunno about you, but I remember the last industrial revolution where there were no restrictions and we ended up with child rape and slavery.
Oh, that's an inconvenient truth for you?
The child rape accusations, BTW, I do have references for, but I'm putting together a video on orphanages, and unfortunately it involves a lot of child rape... And no, it was not the times since at the time marriagable age was still deemed to be what? NINETEEN. Wait, the US has it at 16 with parents' consent... hmmm... maybe reconsider that one. But going over this is waaayyyy too long.
I also remember mass slavery of Black people to produce cotton:
And THIS is why the RIGHT is anti-woke, because if you don't remember the last civil rights fights we had over the industrial revolution and how it disenfranchised an entire population:
People now use Luddite as a slur, but they were protecting their jobs and the government said, screw you, we're using child labour.
Unlike Republicans, I remember history and I'm not in the business of wanting to repeat it.
And look, they want to make it so Black people are on the hook again for their AI by building Data centers in poor and Black neighborhoods.
If we don't put guard rails, data centers will be like trash dumps: No one wants them in their neighborhood. But unlike trash dumps (which are already disproportionately put in Black neighborhoods https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/environmental/12587-environmental-racism-in) AI is completely unnecessary.
AI cat video is not going to help solve world hunger. As I said, AI is an averaging human machine and if you want unique solutions, you need innovation and out of the box thinking and the average of humanity is not that. Besides which, experts know what needs to be done already, but the tech billionaires simply don't want to do it. If they did, why put RFK Jr. at the head of the CDC?
What tech billionaires want is impossible: Not to pay taxes, get double paid by not paying workers fair wages, and a dumb population that follows orders, takes their big money that puts us into debt every time we have a medical exam, yet be a warm body enough to buy their products.
If they could own all the land and make the rest of us homeless yet still have us do all the work, they would do it.
But then we wouldn't have had the Atomic Bomb and beaten Japan...
TT People don't learn history.
I actually took a Modern Japan class which was a history class and one figure I had to memorize for both my High School and for that class was Commodore Perry.
You know the image of oni, some scholars say it's somewhat based on him... and who can blame them based on the history of European and US imperialism?
The big nose and red face oni...
Doesn't this resemble the devil from European lore? Don't you think this might be a tad on purpose?
Commodore Perry came around with big ships and paraded on the shore and forced Japan open.
If the US didn't think they were technologically superior to Japan, they probably wouldn't have done this in the first place. And let's remember how the US got ahead: SLAVES.
Black Slaves.
Let's think for a moment, if you want to argue that the atomic bomb was a good thing then why did Einstein work so hard to try to limit its use?
On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter that would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant, and dest
He regretted it deeply as did the other scientists on the project. It is said that the rise in cancer rates in Japan, Korea China and the coast of California after the bombs were made is still from that event.
Crazy idea here: Maybe the industrial revolution if it had safeguards and was traded and shared equally without the US and the UK being consummate AHs with doing things like killing people who knew how to make Dhaka cotton, and mass rape and killing to get ahead of the so-called Yellow Peril in the 1840's, maybe just maybe we wouldn't even have gotten to WWII? Maybe the slowing down to actually stare people in the face as actual people, might have stopped, Iunno, the Civil War, WWI, Gustav Freytag from being a grade A genocidal AH, and we wouldn't need a WWII because the likes of Hitler would have had protections for him to not grow up with an abusive father. (And he might have had a better arts program that taught him how to do perspective better).
Maybe what we need to protect is people and this wokism that the right hates so much is the answer to the solutions but they are too busy hating on Black people to actually see that sometimes the right solution is not the white solution. That all races are equally brilliant. And using the myth of the model minority to try to instill yellow peril is built on a huge lie.
And maybe we should stop using racism to instill fear in others and look to other countries to figure out if the way they solved their solutions could also work for us???
What I'm saying is if people worked on solidarity and cooperation over getting rich, this might be a grand idea, bit we could all benefit and create a better future, and I don't think the crazy AI video of your dog dancing the the Macarena is worth ruining and killing other people for. Maybe the Luddites were right to send up warning signals about EFFING CHILD SLAVERY.
Republicans don't remember history or don't want to, so ask them to study up and ask them directly: Do you hate Black people that much that you would kill them with Data centers? Was it worth giving the syphilis and experimenting on them for the sake or progress? Henrietta Lacks should not lack for any amount of money. Why does progress need to be at the cost of other human beings' well-being?
