Motley Kamuka

Rewatching the show's 4 seasons. It has many interesting aspects to it. It's more anthropological than previous incantations, and emotions are allowed. Yes, you struggle to be logical, but emotions help you bond with people and clarify your values. And you honor how you feel because it's important for you to do that.  I don't think Star Trek is liberal leaning because there are also attractive to conservatives safety obsession and other congenial ways of conservative being. It's both liberal and conservative. If you're a conservative who hates any kind of liberal ways of being, you could say it's liberal, but you have to understand your own political bias, and not just be enraged by the other way of being when both and none are present.  Michael's story is a kind of Dickensian setup, she's trained really hard as a Vulcan, but not accepted by Vulcans, and then she works really well, but to follow her logic makes her maybe aggressive, not because she...

I'm pretty sure I'm going to mindlessly go to Reddit and then catch myself. It will be hard to pull myself away on Monday and Tuesday, but pull myself away I will. Reddit was born in 2005, and I joined in March 2012. I know because the app tells me when my "birthday" is. I have almost 30k in karma, a useless carrot that counts the reward of others upvoting your posts and comments. There was a time when I was karma chasing, and I work hard to not to that, but at times I find I do have feelings about being downvoted. The Buddhist community I dwelled in steered away from superficial and perhaps literal interpretations of karma, but of course karma is the idea that you plant the seeds of what happens to you with your own agency in the sea of circumstances. It helps you to take ultimate responsibility for your life. Reddit was created in 2005 by two University of Virginia students, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian . August 2017, Reddit’s major shares were acquired by Adv...

If certain people on the right are so afraid of replacement, doesn't that kind of speak to how it sucks to be a minority and maybe we should agree to have basic rights to exist in America? How about whatever happens happens, and you treat everyone well. Driving away non-whites seems to be a bad strategy. I know in this day and age everyone feels empowered to speak their truth, but it's also OK to be critical and dismiss certain opinions as incoherent and nation crumbling. Conservatives are confusing the culture war, a tactic of conservatives, with the conservative instinct and values, which is to not feel that government is the solution to problems. I can't help but try and translate conservativism to something reasonable, because I'm not hearing it articulated well. The right has become a spin producing with reality absent, or passing the hypocrisy test, so with my superior ability for empathy (sarcasm), I'm going to articulate some reasonableness.  Part of it can ...

“  The worse the gender inequality is, comparative research shows, the more women deny its existence, because it makes them feel better. [11]  This denial also makes it harder to change. Ending all this is what will liberate women. Resisting ending it is what keeps male (meaning masculine) power systemically in place.” Source

I'm reading a lot of books right now. Yesterday it was Morbo , about La Liga, and I finished the chapter on the Basque teams--regional pride can easily blend into racism and hooey. I started the chapter on Barca, which was deflating, Phil Ball doesn't buy the hype and I do, so you know, disillusionment is probably good, right?  Before that I'm reading about Thoreau who grew up in the wild west of Concord. The tragedy of Native American history has to be rewritten to be more empowering, but man that's hard given the fustercluck hand they were dealt. It's the fight against being natural and the swarming hordes. Someone told me there are probably twice as many people in the world since I've been born and that kind of freaks me out. I'm also reading Inverting The Pyramid , a sort of history of soccer tactics from the English perspective. I didn't know there really were paying off refs in the 70's. I'm always so surprised when sports are corrupt, beca...

The threat to wreck the economy and the blame game is tedious, probably won’t happen but if it did it would really turn up the heat on an already hot campaign. Biden is too old, he can't unite the ununitable. Trump will be in jail because he can’t stop implicating himself. DeSantis is full out fascist. America will never accept what he’s doing to Florida. Utter insanity. I’m predicting the 4th ranked person after them wins. Not Pence, anything but that fake pius Pence. Not Haley, that fake man.  Ramaswamy  is good, anyone who writes a senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras has my vote. Actually I'd hate him too.  I don't care if Marianne Williamson  can't win, she's looking pretty good for 70 years old. A socialist Jewish woman has my vote. In the primary anyway. Anyone who sings Gershwin standards in a nightclub has my vote. No democrats are challenging Biden, so there is no 4th candidate. This year, like every year, you vot...

  I lined the cover up with a pink curtain to get a pink hue. I've tried to read this before, but I'm thinking more and more I just want to read books about Thoreau and Lincoln. These are the two America saints. I've recently read around Thoreau and the Transcendentalist, learned about Fuller, Emerson, read poems by Channing and Very. On the one hand reading the actual Transcendentalists is quite hard. On the other hand I find biographies and background information absolutely fascinating.  I know Thoreau started a fire accidentally that ravaged a section outside the town. He spent time on Walden, but he was close to home, and it wasn't quite the sojourn in wilderness you perhaps hoped it was. I tried to read A Pilgrim At Tinker Creek , but couldn't get through it. Into The Wild is about what real going into the wilderness can happen. I read sections of the book Walden in high school and have read it in full later, but I haven't read it recently and really shoul...