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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4744200, member: 110504"]A solid analysis, especially with the element of semantic nuance that you freely acknowlege.</p><p>...But, as with the rest of life, there are more moving parts --all, as you say, intertwined-- than admit of easy categorization.</p><p>Can we shift to the elephant in the room, involving centuries and millennia of socio-cultural (and economic) history? With gender, as with that famous one-word oxymoron, 'race' (find it in zoological taxonomy: I Dare you), the worst impulses are perpetuated by means which are less than fully articulate in the first place. If a meme is irreducibly irrational to begin with, the most efficient way to promote it is (...wait for it; picture a train crash happening in slow motion --along the lines of the leadup to certain recent wars) correspondingly irrational. Y'know, innuendo, feeding on groupthink. (...We've all been to high school. --Or the equivalent; y'all know the drill. ...For instance, in the absence of a course in Civics, which needs to be required, instead of nonexistent.)</p><p>...The crazy part is, in America, over most of the past half-millennium, this has Worked! ...From my admittedly limited frame of reference, I guess the advice would be, Watch, Vote and Pray --not necessarily in that order. (You are cordially referred to the example left us by Rep. John Lewis.) Sure, as metaphorically or not as you prefer, regarding some of it. ...Besides watching and voting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4744200, member: 110504"]A solid analysis, especially with the element of semantic nuance that you freely acknowlege. ...But, as with the rest of life, there are more moving parts --all, as you say, intertwined-- than admit of easy categorization. Can we shift to the elephant in the room, involving centuries and millennia of socio-cultural (and economic) history? With gender, as with that famous one-word oxymoron, 'race' (find it in zoological taxonomy: I Dare you), the worst impulses are perpetuated by means which are less than fully articulate in the first place. If a meme is irreducibly irrational to begin with, the most efficient way to promote it is (...wait for it; picture a train crash happening in slow motion --along the lines of the leadup to certain recent wars) correspondingly irrational. Y'know, innuendo, feeding on groupthink. (...We've all been to high school. --Or the equivalent; y'all know the drill. ...For instance, in the absence of a course in Civics, which needs to be required, instead of nonexistent.) ...The crazy part is, in America, over most of the past half-millennium, this has Worked! ...From my admittedly limited frame of reference, I guess the advice would be, Watch, Vote and Pray --not necessarily in that order. (You are cordially referred to the example left us by Rep. John Lewis.) Sure, as metaphorically or not as you prefer, regarding some of it. ...Besides watching and voting.[/QUOTE]
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