I think that we might look to AI as the cause of many problems such as that with Stories to Remember as related by John. The same could be said for the rapid and incomprehensible fluctuations in the prices of books and other items perhaps.
As far as Birth of a Nation is concerned, it would better be titled Birth of the Ku Klux Klan, or a license to Jim Crow and the abuse and lynching of countless innocent black people. However, I do understand John’s point. Censorship deprives us of the opportunity to understand even things we don’t agree with. We should try to understand the roots of white supremacy, and who better to start with than white supremacists themselves, and their victims?
As a white person I should know these things. We might also compare something like the ever expanding evidence and charges of mass sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church. I bring this example because as a Catholic convert for fourteen years now this issue has grieved me greatly. I continue to hold to my faith. Nevertheless, I want and need to understand how thousands, if not tens of thousands of priests have abused children in their flocks over hundreds of years? Also, the estates of many convents and schools for indigenous children have been excavated revealing the unmarked graves of hundreds of babies and young women whose lives and stories have been lost. I want to understand how this has happened. And, since we are speaking of Kafkaesque socio-bureaucracy, how could the Catholic Church have known about these crimes and systematically covered them up, even transferring the offenders to new flocks? Just as with white supremacy, I want these things to be investigated, documented and published for all, even if they are inconvenient truths for many.
So, I agree with and fully support the spirit of this article. Transparency benefits all in the end.
Hear hear to all of this. I'm sure AI is somehow involved. Marc Barnes, one of the founders of our local New Polity Magazine and the founder of a new grocery store in downtown Steubenville, spoke recently explicitly claiming that AI, rather than being actually intelligent, was really just the voice of the bureaucracy. At some point it doesn't matter if it was a person or a computer, if the person has been so emptied of personality by bureaucracy.
I remember having to watch The Birth of A Nation for some class or other, and I hated it. I agree that "Birth of the Ku Klux Klan" is a more appropriate title, not a topic that particularly galvanizes me - I'm interested in *good* things. I don't even think much of it as a movie either.
And I think you are right to associate many of Catholicism's scandals very precisely with its horrible penchant for secrecy and censorship. That men use their social positions in order to get access to sex is basically axiomatic of male primates. That "offenses will come" should not be a scandal. The scandal is the coverup, the secrecy that breeds more opportunities to wound and maim more souls.
I think that we might look to AI as the cause of many problems such as that with Stories to Remember as related by John. The same could be said for the rapid and incomprehensible fluctuations in the prices of books and other items perhaps.
As far as Birth of a Nation is concerned, it would better be titled Birth of the Ku Klux Klan, or a license to Jim Crow and the abuse and lynching of countless innocent black people. However, I do understand John’s point. Censorship deprives us of the opportunity to understand even things we don’t agree with. We should try to understand the roots of white supremacy, and who better to start with than white supremacists themselves, and their victims?
As a white person I should know these things. We might also compare something like the ever expanding evidence and charges of mass sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church. I bring this example because as a Catholic convert for fourteen years now this issue has grieved me greatly. I continue to hold to my faith. Nevertheless, I want and need to understand how thousands, if not tens of thousands of priests have abused children in their flocks over hundreds of years? Also, the estates of many convents and schools for indigenous children have been excavated revealing the unmarked graves of hundreds of babies and young women whose lives and stories have been lost. I want to understand how this has happened. And, since we are speaking of Kafkaesque socio-bureaucracy, how could the Catholic Church have known about these crimes and systematically covered them up, even transferring the offenders to new flocks? Just as with white supremacy, I want these things to be investigated, documented and published for all, even if they are inconvenient truths for many.
So, I agree with and fully support the spirit of this article. Transparency benefits all in the end.
Hear hear to all of this. I'm sure AI is somehow involved. Marc Barnes, one of the founders of our local New Polity Magazine and the founder of a new grocery store in downtown Steubenville, spoke recently explicitly claiming that AI, rather than being actually intelligent, was really just the voice of the bureaucracy. At some point it doesn't matter if it was a person or a computer, if the person has been so emptied of personality by bureaucracy.
I remember having to watch The Birth of A Nation for some class or other, and I hated it. I agree that "Birth of the Ku Klux Klan" is a more appropriate title, not a topic that particularly galvanizes me - I'm interested in *good* things. I don't even think much of it as a movie either.
And I think you are right to associate many of Catholicism's scandals very precisely with its horrible penchant for secrecy and censorship. That men use their social positions in order to get access to sex is basically axiomatic of male primates. That "offenses will come" should not be a scandal. The scandal is the coverup, the secrecy that breeds more opportunities to wound and maim more souls.
Insanity