On 14/06/2013 21:46, saracene wrote:
> On Friday, June 14, 2013 5:55:46 PM UTC+1, Andy Wainwright wrote:
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>>> One man's meat is another man's poison.
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>> Interested in the way you think here. For example, I'd consider the
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>> class, religion or ethnicity of neighbours unimportant,
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> Same here I suppose. Those are not things I care about
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>> upset if they robbed, assualted or harrased me.
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> They have as a matter of fact, but such minor matters don�t determine my political beliefs and desires. I care about a larger picture which you don�t.
I'm interested. Don't like the homogenious myself, prefer variety, and
with people, individuals and characters with personal roots rather than
crude demographics. But it's other stuff as well, clone town centres,
DJs who always play the same 10 records (not even always the top 10)
that every other cunt does and so forth. We seem to have a bit of a
blight in that big money has ended up in the hands of rather boring and
unimaginative types. Those fairly intelligent but without a lot of cash
aren't well catered for- there's the internet and IT but that's about it.
I live in a rural area at the moment, used to live in the city, but like
rambling and nature- not much fun for the under-30s, but suits those
wanting something less in-ya-face, young families and the like.
Certainly not escaping any ethnic group though, neighbours are black.
The strange things is, whilst hardly multi-ethnic compared to the big
smoke, the population is perhaps more tribal than before. It's very much
a them and us, and it seems there is an invisible divide that doesn't
even relate to class, party politics, or religion. On that note, I feel
much more welcome in the churches, even as a total caner, than the pubs-
that largely seem to be inhabilited by the rival faction. So we've got
increased division without large scale migration from home or abroad.
This divide seems to have opened up to some extent nationwide, and the
interesting thing is even siblings can find themselves on opposing sides.
The best pubs for me were always those where the clientel were as mixed
as possible, a few builders, maybe a teacher, solicitor, estate agent or
two, a motor mechanic, a musician, some bikers, hippies and the village
drunk. Sadly, the late 90s saw a blight of crap landlords who tried to
target their custom to a certain group, and it killed the life and
sterilised the places.
We've got all these digital TV and radio channels, yet less local
programming and content than in the 1980s. Another great shame.
So what would be my grand plan. Well China and the like have got the
manufacturing side of things pretty sown up. Some believe we should copy
them- again why copy? Even if we could, why have two Chinas?
Instead I'd like to create an environment conducive to creativity, from
science, invention, architecture, light engineering, medicine and so
forth to the artistic, the designers, musicians, poets, painters and so
forth. At the moment our society and it's rules make heros out of
millionare X-Factor judges again producing copies and villains out of
the underground, inventive musician who barely makes a living from his
work, because it's art for art's sake as opposed to entertainment to
sell. One problem with the current economic system is it rewards those
who copy above those who innovate.
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>> I'd consider that I have every right to choose who I marry.
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> So you have,
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>> believe I have any right to make that decision for my offspring, that's
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>> unless they asked for an arranged marriage- some kids actually do.
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> As I have said I wouldn�t be happy if my daughter came home with a big buck nigger and said she wanted to marry him. It�s her choice what she chooses to do and it�s my choice whether I like it or not.
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Fair enough. It's interesting in the West and many other parts of the
world that the male is often keen to have children that resemble them.
Jewish guys from my experience seem to be affected by this less, not
sure about Muslims.