Emperor Pimiko

Thursday November 3, 2005 - 10:49AM EDT

You know what I hate? Dumb fuckers and their "traditions". I fucking hate the nationalistic, traditional, ethnics attitude that seems to divide people and dominate the modern psyche. Everyone has their "own" language or people or country or traditions. That is why I like the Japanese a lot. Theit history of cultural assimilation. They are like the borg of planet earth. The Japanese have their traditions but nothing trumps practicality and they are always willing to take on and assimilate things about other cultures into their own. It's magnificant. Meanwhile everyone else likes to "value" their cultural traditions by pissing all over everyone elses and ferocisly guarding their "heritage" through traditionalism. Growing up in a country like america that may have the most heterogenous population on the planet I am constantly baffled by various "sepertist movements" around the world. I'm also baffled by China's demands on Taiwan too but that is another story. Also what is the deal with lamenting the death of languages. The less the better. More uniform communication is only better for the human population. I would hope that in another 100 years only like 10 languages are spoken in the world. It would make things much easier. It is just a form of communication and not anything sacred.

Speaking of tradition and Japan. What is the deal with not letting women ascend to the throne. Some loser published a letter saying the line of ascenscion should be male. But if I remeber in my studies the whole male only thing wasn't the original way things were done. That crap took hold after the introduction of Buddhism and Confucianism. Prior to that there were female empresses and it wasn't seen as an issue. Luckily the public support for allowing women seems to be there so hopefully it will change.