Reflections on college visits

[blondie]

Why did you folks tour UBC?
Sorry of the signage, btw. (We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

[jon-nyc]

Why? Why not? He already toured McGill and (since he was there) Concordia. He'll tour University of Toronto in April along with US schools in the midwest. He's also been to a couple of schools in London, though he's not interested in being that far away.

[jon-nyc]

@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:

(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.

More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?

Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?

The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.

[AndyD]

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:

He’s narrowed it down to either medicine or aerospace engineering. With a minor in music.

That's quite amusing. At his age I also still had no realistic idea of what I actually wanted to do.

[Doctor Phibes]

@AndyD said in Reflections on college visits:

At his age I also still had no realistic idea of what I actually wanted to do.

I still don't.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:

@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:

(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.

More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?

Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?

The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.

Word up. There isn't a square mile of desirable land on this planet that hasn't been conquered and occupied, some many times over.

[Horace]

I’m sure we can all agree to that. But not all the vacuousness comes from the left. The Zionism project rests on a vacuous appeal to some historical snapshot of real estate musical chairs as well. And of course their opponents’ perspective does too.

But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:

By the way, we saw the college republicans setting up a booth at Berkeley. Brave young souls.

I have to wonder, were they Republicans before they went to the school? If so, kinda dumb choice unless they specifically want to be provocative. Or are they youth rebelling against the authority?

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:

@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:

(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.

More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?

Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?

The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.

You expressed that very well… And may I point out that the far right’s approach to limiting immigration while railing against natives is equally idiotic?

[LuFins Dad]

@Horace said in Reflections on college visits:

But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods.

I’m not a very popular dad at the various kid groups and the parks we take Finley to. Inevitably, two little boys get in trouble and the mom’s start with that ridiculous “violence never solves anything” crap, and I feel compelled to correct them.

[Mik]

So you want to coldcock one of the moms?

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Reflections on college visits:

So you want to coldcock one of the moms?

Based off their reactions, you would think I had.

[89th]

Is that better than warmcock? Asking for a friend

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Reflections on college visits:

@Horace said in Reflections on college visits:

But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods.

I’m not a very popular dad at the various kid groups and the parks we take Finley to. Inevitably, two little boys get in trouble and the mom’s start with that ridiculous “violence never solves anything” crap, and I feel compelled to correct them.

Ha just yesterday my 3 year old hit my 5 year old and he complained to me, I told him to just hit her back. Is that bad? She needs to learn there are consequences. At playgrounds it is remarkable how involved parents get at trying to keep the line fair at a slide or to intervene when kids fight, or to stop a kid from climbing the slide backwards. I am almost at the extreme side these days where I very much want my kids to figure it out and maybe I'm biased but my kids are usually the best behaved at these places now.

[Mik]

Playground. A place for kids to explore and use their imagination, to try things, to test themselves. It should not be regimented.

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in Reflections on college visits:

Is that better than warmcock? Asking for a friend

No but at Mik’s age it’s the best he can do.

[Mik]

Well, this thread has gone far and wide.