WinterBorn
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- Nov 18, 2011
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Umm...they still work on AI, life extension and space travel.
There there. The gay pot boogy man is not going to take away your sex robot.
THe focus of our civilization is clear. It is not on moving forward. It is at best navel gazing, and at worst wallowing in our own filth.
I guess that depends on whether you are one of the marginalized, at best, people. It is not ancient history that homosexuals were discriminated against and even brutalized. Now they are free to enjoy their lives as productive members of society.
The idea that we, as a civilization, are not moving forward is ridiculous. Amazing technological advances are happening every day. When I was in high school in the late 70s, I was lucky enough to work on a science project involving computers. I had limited access to the mainframe monster at the Univ. of Alabama. I guarded the box of punch cards like they were a secret treasure. If one got out of sequence, they entire project was ruined. I can now do the same project on the smallest, slowest computer available, with much better results.
The entertainment industry is vastly better, with more choices in programing and ease of use on your own schedule.
Transportation, while not flying cars, is leaps and bounds better than just a few decades ago. This is especially true in areas of safety.
Space travel is great, and I look forward to seeing more. But the realities of the limitations means the scifi of the 1950s and 1960s are simply fiction.
The story of marginalized people getting equality is a fine story. It is not the only story. Focusing on it, to the exclusion of celebrating or even marginalizing the greater society,
is not healthy.
How do you marginalize the greater society?
No one is excluding any celebration of the greater society. That is just nonsense. Just because the marginalized are included does not cost the greater society anything.
You take a group(s), that used to be the majority and/or the backbone of society, and you turn it into the supposed "bad guy".
And that is what you and people like you are doing.
Nobody is turning the backbone of society into bad guys. If people beat up, killed, or even fired people just because they were gay, they were most certainly not the backbone of society. They were ignorant bigots.