You don’t post as much anymore, but I like your posts.
We have chatted about Herman Wouk in the past (which I will admit is the extent of my knowledge of Jewish culture).
In my defence, I know as little about what I suppose is my culture as I do about any.
Nominally Indian Hindu..pretty much actually just blah. I have no community or culture. I wonder now if I have a nomad somewhere in my ancestry who cavils at forced new forms of community and collaboration doomed to fail. Certainly I am all biological and dislike machines except when passive aids to human work. But I also dislike humans sometimes. Rarely and always personal not a group. I am entirely unforgiving of personal wrongs suffering from no martyr complex.
That is a glib remark about nomads and no doubt a wag or a painfully earnest intellectual on the net would dissect a casual flight of fancy explaining why actually that was not how nomads functioned and how only Luddites are dismissive of and contemptuous towards machines. Yeah no shit genius wrt the first and lol wrt the second..
My education is sadly mostly holes. Less so my imagination which has to be labeled delusion to get destroyed.
The Roma were not very popular with Hitler any more than Jewish people were. I have read about war via fiction not historical literature, but it was an odd little Canadian book “The Rebel Angels” which drew my attention to the Roma.
Btw Samson Aaron, The Uncle was my favorite character in Marjorie Morningstar. “No dishes to vaash”..Also my mom’s favourite person in the book. She would have liked your posts PCIntern.
Samson Aaron was a very lovable man. A mensch I think you would say. Tough world for any mensch these days…
Fortunately for me, standalone, I am the opposite of a mensch..well not quite. But it is asking to be taken advantage of to be excessively a mensch these days.
Jewish humans are disproportionately represented in the scientific* community even outside its present form (social engineering, warfare and shopping malls focused on what is “trending”).
That is very cool and has made a favorable impression on me as opposed to “my” culture’s penchant for those idiotic trends, machines and IT. There are only two things I truly love as a human: Earth and Science. Neither Earth nor science care whether humans believe in climate change or not. But nature’s fixes to out of balance systems and societies tend to be brutal.
There is this really shitty, trashy, atrocious school called Stanford - a third rate institution (like most owned by the fascist appeasers or fascists of Si Valley) with absolutely no positive qualities that are not profoundly outweighed by its negatives. A British biology professor aside, the few decent scientists I have seen associated with that pile of uniformly worthless garbage are Jewish - Peter Eastman, Eyal Ophir and the unfairly slandered and maliciously maligned Paul Ehrlich who was more prophetic than not. Paul joked about cannibalism before he died. Paul was not wrong. Eyal Ophir wrote the only good paper I have ever seen come out of Stanford. Hyperbole? What is that?
Paul Ehrlich was more of a humanist than those who endlessly attacked him. John Hennessy who once was the admin is more a harmless clunker than actively malicious though. But a thorough clunker. CS..lol.
I wish you a very pleasant seder PCIntern. You are a decent man and I trust you will take good care of your logical faculties at a time when all of ours are embattled each day, every day.
Critical thinking on autopilot was something I missed when mired with institutions and humans I will never have anything to do with. Though Hennessy is kinda funny..clunker as he is. The repercussions of ignoring “No means No” and “yes means yes” endlessly to force a Theranos adjacent thing at scale..Music will change the world..The fuck it will..idiots. But it will disproportionately enrich the least scientific and principled. Flight of fancy again. Truthy if you will.
*: I mean traditional/classical decent human science as opposed to just clunking with some computers.
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