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[starman]

[video=youtube;sSSqc1qG238]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSqc1qG238[/video]


You'll be a Elite Dangerous commander forum poster my son.

 

[shreddog]

 

[Arry]

A beautiful life lesson, for any young man.

Unfortunately, out of touch, with the enforced modern social thinking.

Wise words, but they also need a little wisdom, to be fully understood.

 

[starman]

The forum is now being treated as 'Hostile Environment'

If the Op violates the T& C it gets moderated otherwise should be treated like any other post.

 

[Arry]

The forum is now being treated as 'Hostile Environment'

If the Op violates the T& C it gets moderated otherwise should be treated like any other post.

Sorry not being hostile.

I think it is one of the best pieces of advice that can be given to anyone.

But then there is a lot of anti-Kipling shouting going on with the Metoo and other anti-male noise makers. They defaced his work on a wall at some famous university. A very sad state of affairs, in my opinion.

 

[starman]

Sorry not being hostile.

I think it is one of the best pieces of advice that can be given to anyone.

But then there is a lot of anti-Kipling shouting going on with the Metoo and other anti-male noise makers. They defaced his work on a wall at some famous university. A very sad state of affairs, in my opinion.

Oh so its because I have the word 'man' in my username. I thought it had something to do with gender. Explain all the obscure gender neutral naming and rhetoric.


Also have Elite users decided to attack the 'lower' ranks.



This forum should be a gam ein itself.

 

[Arry]

Oh so its because I have the word 'man' in my username. I thought it had something to do with gender. Explain all the obscure gender neutral naming and rhetoric.


Also have Elite users decided to attack the 'lower' ranks.



This forum should be a gam ein itself.

OK, now I know that you are pulling my leg.

Enough of this banter. You are only two ranks below Elite; keep posting in any way you wish.

 

[znôrt]

They defaced his work on a wall at some famous university.

dunno about metoo, but i read that was about racism and imperialism.

A very sad state of affairs, in my opinion.

really? that poem has been an inspiration for me since i was a kid, but we don't need sacred cows either. i'm not endorsing that action but everything should be subject to challenge and question and even if i have no idea if kipling himself was specially racist/machoist/whatever, his message (and he himself) is the product of a time where those were not only rampant but socially accepted. this transpires through most of the work and art of any era. recognizing that and calling it out i find it is healthy, and specially if youth do it, and it's part of the never ending cultural process of defining what it means to be human. (actually, i would look at it as yet another manifestation of art, but that's just me i guess).

then again just using a dead celebrity as a scapegoat for some agenda is completely different, no idea if that's the case.

feel the same about hergé and tintin au congo. yes, those stripes just drip racism and bigotry, which was the norm at the time, and hergé was a quite meticulous realist. rather than process this as a testament and warning of the cultural biases we come from and need to leave behind some people insist in shooting the messenger, who was just another child of his era except exceptionally perceptive and talented. stupid.

 

[Arry]

dunno about metoo, but i read that was about racism and imperialism.



really? that poem has been an inspiration for me since i was a kid, but we don't need sacred cows either. i'm not endorsing that action but everything should be subject to challenge and question and even if i have no idea if kipling himself was specially racist/machoist/whatever, his message (and he himself) is the product of a time where those were not only rampant but socially accepted. this transpires through most of the work and art of any era. recognizing that and calling it out i find it is healthy, and specially if youth do it, and it's part of the never ending cultural process of defining what it means to be human. (actually, i would look at it as yet another manifestation of art, but that's just me i guess).

then again just using a dead celebrity as a scapegoat for some agenda is completely different, no idea if that's the case.

feel the same about hergé and tintin au congo. yes, those stripes just drip racism and bigotry, which was the norm at the time, and hergé was a quite meticulous realist. rather than process this as a testament and warning of the cultural biases we come from and need to leave behind some people insist in shooting the messenger, who was just another child of his era except exceptionally perceptive and talented. stupid.

I agree that everything should be subject to challenge: However, some questions should be asked about those making that challenge, because it would seem that these days, those who can shout the loudest, dictate the opinion of the masses and anyone attempting to challenge this, is condemned, as racist etc..

That is why I believe, that this world, is becoming a very sad place.