Thank you for sharing such a poignant and beautiful family story with us. Out of curiosity are you moving to Mexico for better opportunities or to get away from Canada's ever growing totalitarianism? Whatever the reason, it's none of my business, and I do wish you nothing but the best in all your endeavors. I do hope you will continue writing and producing content in the future regardless of where you may go! Blessings
Thank you @Nancy Mercier. New opportunities, climate, culture, novelty, change, exploration, and yes— Canada’s increasing totalitarianism, which is alarming. Mexico was something we had in mind as a plan B, but we will make it our plan A for a period, try it out, and adapt as we go. Too difficult to plan indefinitely into the future. I will be documenting parts of my journey here. :)
If you take a look at what war propaganda is and its purpose. It's purpose is to dehumanize an entire race or group of people. Naturally people do not think that walking around and murdering other families because a murderer is on the loose is ok. War propaganda does this. Guilt by association is a lie and evil.
I'm glad your guest spent some time on the idea of the inevitable failure of the multiculturalism experiment in Western societies, which I think I have droned on about in responses to one or two of your other interviews ! Here in the UK, there was a sizeable influx of West Indian people in the 1950s, and they and their children became assimilated in UK society, seemingly without any of the tensions seen in the more recent migration waves from the Middle East and North Africa. Now, I am sure that there were issues during this time, as the UK was racially homogeneous , as was all of Europe. But in my thinking, it is clear that these issues were less problematic and more superficial because of a couple of simple things. The first is that these were English speakers - a fact that I believe should not be underestimated in importance as it goes straight to our want of something familiar in the face of something otherwise unfamiliar - and also they were essentially Christian in belief as far as I am aware. So being Christian, their laws were built upon the same moral bedrock as Europeans. A country's legal system is founded and continues to prevail because of an implicit acceptance of those laws as being based on God's immutable laws. The Ten Commandments, essentially. That is, as you point out, a multi-ethnic society, and is a functional model. Introduce a conflicting worldview into a (by now) anything-goes moral vacuum but with the same legacy legal structures, and you have a major problem. For the moment, our politicians keep applying sticking plasters in the form of "hate speech" legislation, which in the UK and Ireland is starting to creep into pre-crime Thought Police re-definitions of words like "extremism" in order to pretend that the problem is not enough censure and prosecution for free speech. Just do more of that and everything will be fine. On another point raised: one thing I still struggle with is this theme of left-wing activists, particularly high-profile ones like Saint Greta, being all just anti-semites underneath everything. I wondered what your thinking is on that one? Maybe I have missed something, as I am equally appalled at what happened on Oct 7th as I am mystified by the ongoing response of the Israeli government as a way forward. And obviously I am not remotely on the Left . Are we saying that once one has picked a side on a moral basis, that one should remain steadfast in that, no matter what the consequences further down the line? I just would be interested to know your views on that, as I find myself in a moral quagmire when I try to rationalise over the situation there . On a lighter note, I really enjoyed the last segment on humour. That is spot on about the Left - they have absolutely no sense of humour, because they lack self-awareness in my view. And lampooning them as often as possible is the way forward, especially on neutral ground where the undecided live. As it might have said in the Good Book : The memes shall inherit the earth :)
Anyway, a long and somewhat rambling comment on my part, but another epic interview Kate. Thank you!
Nice!
Humans evolved from family structures, social organizations, Our ancestors did not hunt Mastodon, Alone, nor, could they have.
I have seen places without a functional " state" places of pure anarchy.
Hierarchy developed, order developed, the strong, the ruthless, established dominance and control.
The weak, had to either Die, serve, or band together with others in order to resist the strong.
Anarchy doesn't produce freedom, it produces struggles for dominance in the real world.
For evidence, examine any region on earth , at any time, without an organized state.
( West Africa at times, Somalia, Central aAfrica.)
Take notice that even primitive cultures, ie, Amazonian tribes, New Guinea high lands, their is an organized functioning socio political system.
No Anarchy.
That said,
Minarchism,
In form of a Constitutional Republic, provides, to date, the greatest preservation of Individual liberty, security, stability.
Which is why I favor Minarchism.
Though,
If only Humans were not so, Human..
Total liberty, freedom and love between, for, in all is a beautiful dream.
That's all it is though, a fantasy.
Like, Marxism/Socialism/Fascist utopia's,
Fantasy.
The reality of those fantasies is brutality, cruelty, and mass graves.
Thank you for sharing such a poignant and beautiful family story with us. Out of curiosity are you moving to Mexico for better opportunities or to get away from Canada's ever growing totalitarianism? Whatever the reason, it's none of my business, and I do wish you nothing but the best in all your endeavors. I do hope you will continue writing and producing content in the future regardless of where you may go! Blessings
Thank you @Nancy Mercier. New opportunities, climate, culture, novelty, change, exploration, and yes— Canada’s increasing totalitarianism, which is alarming. Mexico was something we had in mind as a plan B, but we will make it our plan A for a period, try it out, and adapt as we go. Too difficult to plan indefinitely into the future. I will be documenting parts of my journey here. :)
If you take a look at what war propaganda is and its purpose. It's purpose is to dehumanize an entire race or group of people. Naturally people do not think that walking around and murdering other families because a murderer is on the loose is ok. War propaganda does this. Guilt by association is a lie and evil.
I'm glad your guest spent some time on the idea of the inevitable failure of the multiculturalism experiment in Western societies, which I think I have droned on about in responses to one or two of your other interviews ! Here in the UK, there was a sizeable influx of West Indian people in the 1950s, and they and their children became assimilated in UK society, seemingly without any of the tensions seen in the more recent migration waves from the Middle East and North Africa. Now, I am sure that there were issues during this time, as the UK was racially homogeneous , as was all of Europe. But in my thinking, it is clear that these issues were less problematic and more superficial because of a couple of simple things. The first is that these were English speakers - a fact that I believe should not be underestimated in importance as it goes straight to our want of something familiar in the face of something otherwise unfamiliar - and also they were essentially Christian in belief as far as I am aware. So being Christian, their laws were built upon the same moral bedrock as Europeans. A country's legal system is founded and continues to prevail because of an implicit acceptance of those laws as being based on God's immutable laws. The Ten Commandments, essentially. That is, as you point out, a multi-ethnic society, and is a functional model. Introduce a conflicting worldview into a (by now) anything-goes moral vacuum but with the same legacy legal structures, and you have a major problem. For the moment, our politicians keep applying sticking plasters in the form of "hate speech" legislation, which in the UK and Ireland is starting to creep into pre-crime Thought Police re-definitions of words like "extremism" in order to pretend that the problem is not enough censure and prosecution for free speech. Just do more of that and everything will be fine. On another point raised: one thing I still struggle with is this theme of left-wing activists, particularly high-profile ones like Saint Greta, being all just anti-semites underneath everything. I wondered what your thinking is on that one? Maybe I have missed something, as I am equally appalled at what happened on Oct 7th as I am mystified by the ongoing response of the Israeli government as a way forward. And obviously I am not remotely on the Left . Are we saying that once one has picked a side on a moral basis, that one should remain steadfast in that, no matter what the consequences further down the line? I just would be interested to know your views on that, as I find myself in a moral quagmire when I try to rationalise over the situation there . On a lighter note, I really enjoyed the last segment on humour. That is spot on about the Left - they have absolutely no sense of humour, because they lack self-awareness in my view. And lampooning them as often as possible is the way forward, especially on neutral ground where the undecided live. As it might have said in the Good Book : The memes shall inherit the earth :)
Anyway, a long and somewhat rambling comment on my part, but another epic interview Kate. Thank you!