XPost: rec.music.country.western, soc.veterans, alt.security.terrorism   
   XPost: oh.general   
   From: arminius@mail.cybertrails.com   
      
   On 27 Jun 2005 23:54:39 -0700, srprozak@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >Animosity   
   >   
   >Humans operate like a giant chemical reaction: when enough of the   
   >reagents are in contact, something happens - an explosion, a synthesis,   
   >or a neutralization. As evidenced by the increasing amount of coverage   
   >given racial issues, the reaction on this issue is imminent in America   
   >and Europe. As someone who would like to live in a sane world,   
   >preferrably one in which we are headed in an upward (not to be confused   
   >with "progressive," which assumes we can invent a substitute for nature   
   >that's utopic) direction, I like to inject my viewpoint where I can do   
   >so, and often find years later that people were indeed reading and took   
   >the ideas to heart. I hope the same happens here.   
   >   
   >The racial issue simmers for now. Most people, having their hands full   
   >with lives and families, are not inclined to let something blow up   
   >unless it's so far out of control that they see nothing other way; this   
   >is why humanity loves tragedies, as they emulate our own course of   
   >history, where events remain backgrounded until something extreme must   
   >happen. The extreme will happen, although it's hard for us to believe   
   >as we journey from air conditioned homes to stores to offices. We   
   >didn't think oil would ever run out, or that environmental damage would   
   >come back to haunt us, but the perfect worldview in which we are   
   >disconnected from external, natural forces has been pierced there and   
   >will also be shattered in the case of the racial issue. It's a question   
   >of time, and how we organize our thoughts.   
   >   
   >If we tackle this issue honestly, now, we will be able to not only fix   
   >the problems of the past but avert the future disasters that lurk   
   >anytime one applies a temporary fix and then relies on it as if it were   
   >a foundation. For us to tackle this issue requires that we locate our   
   >own natural instincts and, instead of suppressing them like we dress up   
   >sweaty bodies in business suits and euphemize death at parties,   
   >explicate them and understand their wisdom. Part of life is trusting   
   >the course of life itself; the origin of this course is what we call   
   >"nature," which I see as an order to the entire cosmos that operates in   
   >ways not immediately visible to human (through meditation, philosophy   
   >or any other form of consistent structural thought they can be seen).   
   >   
   >When we analyze the racial issue, it appears at first to be one of   
   >identity. We see ourselves as part of a heritage, and within that, a   
   >familial line. Our identity in this context however is not like a   
   >social identity, or a manufactured position in an arbitrary hierarchy   
   >of things we say and do, but is a symbolic reference to our pasts as   
   >they are encoded in our genetics. Our heritage represents the work of   
   >our ancestors; even more, it represents our own potential, as it is the   
   >design for the machines which are our bodies - and in them, as part of   
   >them, our minds. Alcoholic uncles and genius grandfathers are things we   
   >inherit and must deal with, as they're part of our makeup, much as a   
   >car which uses an older design of oil pump has corresponding strengths   
   >and weaknesses. Genetics is the design of our selves, and much as our   
   >intelligence and strength and physical appearance are not only limited   
   >by have a place on a strata from good to best, represents abilities and   
   >failings.   
   >   
   >Our goal in each of our lives is to move upward, and by pushing our   
   >machine to its potential with discipline, education and experience, to   
   >further develop the design. This is a form of evolution, except that as   
   >tool-making animals, we're in charge of it - not our predators, as   
   >would be the case with a mouse or raven. Our raw abilities are   
   >determined at birth, as are the basics of our personalities, but   
   >through hard work we can make these better. There is no escape from   
   >this cycle. We can pretend, but as we age and our accomplishments are   
   >shown (or fail to materialize), the lie is revealed and we are seen for   
   >what we are. Much as our society fears nakedness, and the possibility   
   >of a small penis or saggy breasts, it also fears this revelation, as no   
   >degree of knowing people and being known can obscure what we are.   
   >   
   >For this reason, we cannot become something different by breeding with   
   >a radical opposite; what is produced is a fusion of traits, none of   
   >which are separate from their genetic past. Randomness occurs, and as   
   >with all things in nature, no magic sudden solution to every problem   
   >emerges. From this realization we see that we are our heritage, and   
   >there is no escape from it except by furthering it along the course of   
   >its design. Further, we see that if we want to rise in life, the only   
   >way is by evolving upward, as everything else over time is shown as a   
   >stinking lie covered with fancy words and ostentatious gestures. The   
   >potential of our grandparents, and theirs and those of generations   
   >before them, lies within us, as do their failings. We either recognize   
   >this and work toward bettering ourselves, or in denial, we make random   
   >decisions and have random results, which means that for each trait our   
   >offspring have, it will be a coin toss.   
   >   
   >This is the root of the racial issue: as populations, we wish to   
   >continue existing as an unbroken ethnic and cultural line so that we   
   >may better ourselves. Those who want some radical easy solution to   
   >this, such as race mixing, are hoping for a Disney-like magic pathway   
   >that ends all of their problems at once. Life isn't that simple,   
   >because if it were, it would rapidly collapse from a tendency to   
   >achieve extremes without addressing the details that make outcomes   
   >possible. It is not some religious aspect to nature that makes this so,   
   >but basic mathematics: a certain degree of complexity is needed, and it   
   >requires attention to its manipulation. Recognizing that easy answers   
   >do not exist, and that we are a product of our past, forces us to   
   >recognize the importance of ethnic-cultural heritage.   
   >   
   >For this reason, not "identity," those among us who are realistic and   
   >have the heroic outlook of wanting to live life well will choose to   
   >breed within their own race and tribe, and even more, to try to acquire   
   >the best mate they can so that their children exceed them in ability,   
   >physicality and moral character. People who do not choose to make this   
   >decision are hoping to get away with an evasive and simplistic approach   
      
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