civilisationReview

...because,  1. It impresses upon non-white people that whites do not know it all and that their own cultures can contribute and produce ideas that did not, and will not, be produced by them.  2. Such ideas will free white people from the tyranny of the particular kind of ignorance in perspectives and engendered by their unique history as they will be able to them access ideas and perspectives from other cultures.  3. Such access will disable their own white elite from capitalising on such ignorance which such elite may actually have produced, thrived on, and which thus gives them every reason to perpetuate.  Every culture that has an evil and exploitative elite will logically have cultural practices and perspectives that allows such an evil elite to exist in the first place.   Differences in historical experiences will give rise to different ways of putting up with it, supporting it, and contending with it.  It is from attentio...

You know, i've stopped watching Tamil (south Indian) movies for the past 5 years - and if i do, it is largely stuff produced in the 90s and before.  Why?   Tamil movies used to be a welcome break from contemporary American movies, as Tamils, unlike Americans, focus on detailed dialogue, they have lots of wit, lots of philosophical debates.  That is why i watched them in the past.  When it comes to storyline, it is as predictable as the lottery results of a year ago.  The song and dance is fine, especially if the songs were from the 90s and before, as that, unlike what the blacks think is 'soul music', is REALLY soul music. (black 'soul' music is considered to be 'soul' because it is, in contrast to what the whites were producing.  I would say that when it comes to 'soul', the blacks skim its surface, whilst the Indians do a deep sea dive into it with captain nemo.)   V adai Productions But now?  No.  It is bloody annoying.  The...

If people were as 'multicultural' as these viruses, they would already have immunity to a whole load of viruses than they currently are. So you could say that this virus is a sort of 'punishment' for your gullibility, stupidity and arrogance. The best sort of protection one can have against this situation is to get multicultural, and not be conned by the eurocentric media to believe that their profiteering pharmaceutical companies are the only ones who can cure anything....along with their whole culture that is supposed to be the 'best' at everything, and which we ought to emulate. One, logically, can never fully trust, or depend on, any people who believe the sun rises and sets out of their arse, as that will only cast a perpetual shadow across the rest of the body of human knowledge, wisdom, and history. The 'wisdom', 'insights', and 'perspectives' of such a people is based on the poverty of their knowledge arising out of ...

I've been watching The Punisher series on Netflix over the past week. Not that i like such stuff, but this one meets my minimum standard of having some sort of plot that isn't a constant insult to my intelligence. Anyway, i kept hearing pro-america nonsense on it.  There's one chick by the name of Madani who works for 'Homeland Security', and at one point she tells her mother what a great country america is because an immigrant like her (mother) can get really rich there. And that's why, 'it has to be protected'. 'Huh?' moi mildly exclaimed, "But you can't get rich without it being at the expense of those who aren't!  The capitalist system, which is pyramidal in aspirational shape, will only allow a limited number of people to the upper echelons, whilst the rest will have to slog below them right. What shite." (Yes, I'm inclined to talk to myself whilst watching american movies as my critique tends to make the experienc...

"At the opening ceremony for World Youth Day in Panama on Thursday, Pope Francis asked participants to let themselves be united across lands and cultures by the love of Christ.  “We come from different cultures and peoples, we speak different languages and we wear different clothes. Each of our peoples has had a different history and lived through different situations. We are different in so many ways!” he said.   The Pope asked the youth to say yes to the love of Christ through a culture of encounter, which unites people from different places and cultures. Pope Francis: “...we know that the father of lies prefers people who are divided and quarrelling to people who have learned to work together.” - cna   Matthew chapter 10. 34. Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. 35. For I have come to set son against father, daughter against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law; 36. a person'...

The danger posed by growing resistance to antibiotics should be ranked along with terrorism on a list of threats to the nation, the government's chief medical officer for England has said. Professor Dame Sally Davies described it as a "ticking time bomb". She warned that routine operations could become deadly in just 20 years if we lose the ability to fight infection. Dame Sally urged the government to raise the issue during next month's G8 Summit in London. Dame Sally said: "If we don't take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment where infections kill us as a result of routine operations. We won't be able to do a lot of our cancer treatments or organ transplants." She said pharmaceutical companies needed to be encouraged to develop new drugs, because the manufacture of antibiotics was not viewed as profitable. - bbc I try to stay off antibiotics, flu jabs, and the like by substituting them with a chopped clove of garli...

A linear tabulation of age only counts when wear-and-tear, biological age, amongst related others, are taken into account.  The Perspective For instance, Chinese culture has been tabulated to be thousands of years old, going back to the Shang, or Hsia.  Egyptian culture has been dated to be even more than that.  Western contemporary culture has been dated back to Greece.  But that isn’t true, logically speaking, albeit it be true chronologically. When it comes to culture, its age can only be determined by the continuity of a culture of antiquity to the present in terms of perspective.  When there is a major shift in culture, and the people began to go along a path that people of a previous era would not have if they had continued along their path, then we can say that their cultural age starts from zero at the point of the major transition, or shift away from an earlier and dominant mode of thought. This perspective for instance, and ed, is not borne of ‘Singapo...

The following is an excerpt of an article by Muhd Shamin from the site, 'i'm getting personal', entitled, 'I am from Bangsa Singapura'. ed's comment follows. “Which brings me to the question about race. What relevance does it hold for me? Nothing. The diversity that we have in Singapore is a blessing for us all. It makes us more tolerant of each other's differences. It makes us know more things about the world. No race is superior. It is just a myth created by those in power to instill intolerance. Aren't there Malay graduates who are just as competent as Chinese and Indian graduates? Aren't there Indian businessmen who are just as rich as a Malay or Chinese businessmen? In the SDP, we do not focus on race. the colour of our members' skins are not important. Nor is there a need to create a bureau to represent a specific group of people. Of course, there are still problems that affect specific ethnic groups. These are caused by PAP policies. But ...

ed's comment on BBC's ' Have your Say ', I am from Singapore, and there, multiculturalism has failed. Not because multiculturalism is necessarily prone to failure, but because one particular culture - legalism-confucianism - has been imposed upon all through the media, government policies, immigration policies, etc. Over time, the chinese have been bred to appreciate no other way of thought or action other than the imposed, and thereafter internalised, one. Hence, multiculturalism died the death without even a whimper. The point here is not that multiculturalism does not work, but it requires the engendering, not of tolerance, but equal and mutual respect and appreciation. We also have to drop this 'indigenous therefore we are numero uno' nonsense. That isn't very far from, 'we are majority and we don't need to give a toss about you'. And that, in turn, isn't far from, 'racism as just a matter of preference'. Multiculturalism ...

I always get a bit worried whenever people start imposing restrictions on expression for fear that it might be ‘offensive’. For instance, Seelan Palay's post, ' Lee Kuan Yew's remarks deeply offensive to Malays ', or, Not My SDP's, ' John Tan's remarks deeply offensive to Muslims ', are cases in point. Let me put it this way. Familiarity tends to breed contempt of critique. In other words, my being familiar with a particular scheme of thought and thoughtlessness, and being taught to appreciate it as ‘culture’, and then being told that I ought to take ‘cultural pride’ in it, renders whatever paradigm from which I make limited sense of reality immune to critique lest it offends the familiarity-induced sensibilities of others like myself. This, i view as nothing short of cultural arrogance. Do people actually think that the culture we inherit, and which is borne of times we all agree were, in various respects, less than laudable, can actually be sacros...

Is Chinese Culture superior to Indian Culture? Well, according to Lee Senior, it is. And I have to agree to some extent. Yes. Chinese culture is superior. To some extent, or in some respects. It does seem superior, compared to Indian culture, when it comes to producing minds that aren’t well-adept in what i would term multi-angular thinking - looking at things from different angles. I suppose that is to be expected since Confucianism-cum-Legalism tends to emphasise tradition, conformity and subservience - which together i would term ‘kow-towism’. Whether one applies such a system within a nation or a single family, one cannot argue with the fact that a combination of the above cannot but produce relatively docile minds unless it is applied for the purpose of undoing itself. For instance, emphasising a tradition of independent inquiry; conformity to a popular spirit of continuous doubt and revision; and subservience to the notion that the precondition of humanity is infallibi...

It reduces our potential to be despite a singular historical experience, or more than one historical experience. It imposes upon us a lineage that oftentimes serves as a Great Wall wherein we seek exclusionary refuge that at the same time becomes a phalanx in our march against difference-cum-self glorification. It is intellectually improprietous to claim a historical heritage when we did not mortar a single brick in the construction of our respective Taj Mahals. We become hangers-on in the cultural achievements of others whose only real link to us in their not being able to avail themselves of contraceptives. It detracts our attention from us being potentially more than the present which is oftentimes a replication of the past that is never of our making. It diminishes our appreciation of respect by confining it within the traditional for tradition’s sake. When I was 18, a friend said to me, ‘you must be proud to be Indian’. I said, ‘why should I be proud to be Indian when I pl...

"Didn’t, for instance, India, which was deemed to be the ‘Jewel in the Crown’, contribute more than a metaphor to the riches and treasures of the United Kingdom?" ~ ed When can we call ourselves an indigenous people, or indigenous to a country? To the BNP, an indigenous person is a ‘white’ person who is indigenous to the United Kingdom. In other words, a person who originates or ‘naturally occurs’ in the United Kingdom. But that would be quite inaccurate given that the ‘white’ Britisher has ethnic strains of various origins – German, Gallic, French, Viking, Roman,…… And given the colonial experience, some would also have strains of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Malay, African,….. Some might argue and say that it is the historical experience within this land that counts. If so, then can we deny that with the advent of British colonialism, that their historical experience in the United Kingdom was tied with their fortunes and cultural experiences elsewhere? But most importantly,...