One thing the guys who criticise Netflix for its racial diversity in The Witcher always seem to forget
Had this discussion with this guy on Reddit again, always the same arguments, of course, the lore allegedly is all Slavic/white European. And then they pretend to care for the identity of other cultures and that they should be preserved and distinguishable and that there's Zerrikania on the continent for black people. Yes, Zerrikania, featuring so prominently in the books, right ...
What they totally seem to overlook, humans came to the continent through the Conjunction of the Spheres about 1,500 years before the events of the novels. They did not evolve on the continent through survival of the fittest. The distribution of skin colour on the continent ought to be mostly random. Yes, people who came from hot places in their original world and have a very dark skin colour as adaptation to the climate in their lost sphere of origin might prefer to settle regions like Zerrikania with a similar climate. But why wouldn't they settle in Toussaint, for example? Fringilla being dark skinned does not have to mean she has ancestors from Zerrikania and does not need to be explained in any way. Same with culture, people from all kinds of different cultures have very likely landed on the continent together and mixed their cultures while they were helping each other to survive in a totally new world. Why should there be distinct cultures related to skin colour and climate after only 1,500 years of populating the continent? A mix makes a lot more sense under these unique circumstances.
There was also a very funny thing one guy asked me when I wrote something like: Oh yes, the Korath desert is very Eastern European.
Did you know there's a desert in Poland? Yes, there actually is. We also have several "deserts" in Germany, but they are all so small, even a toddler would have difficulty getting lost in one of them 😂. Of course Sapkowski was exclusively thinking of this miniature Polish desert when he created the Korath 😂.
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Current leftism is the Big Brother
This is a realization that I had five years ago.
I've never been a left-wing follower or a right-wing. I prefer to walk in the middle like Buddhism has always inspired me. No, more than that, I prefer to be a free thinker. Some left-wing ideas are awesome. Some right-wing ideas are good. Some left-wing ideas are wicked. Some right-wing ideas are cruel. But rooting for a political party, as if it's a sports team, will create a mob-like mentality.
Worse, cult-like mentality.
For some reason, the left has become an extreme cult of desperate progression without an ounce of care. In a period of two years, we've seen the trans acceptance movement (which was awesome) jump to the forced acceptance of a trans woman, guilty of rape, to be transferred to a female prison. What followed was the rape and violence against several female inmates. In a period of twenty years, we've seen the sexual liberation of women turn into the acceptance of nine-month pregnancy abortion (which is clear murder, given some people are born with seven, or eight months... Me included).
What's the final goal of this rushed progression?
What's a perfect world in the eyes of a leftist? Every time I asked, they never had a clear vision. They didn't know. The goal of the left is just the progression. But will they know the time to stop? Probably not. Because, if they lived in a utopia, they would do what their ideology tells them... to change the status quo for more progression.
The left was created from dissatisfaction. If that's the foundation of the ideology, the left will never be truly satisfied.
But what makes me think that the current (mostly US) leftism has unbalanced the world towards a 1984, by George Orwell, type of reality was the subtle use of doublethink, newspeak, and thoughtcrime. Let's go, one by one.
Doublethink: In the book, doublethink is the acceptance of opposing concepts by indoctrination. For example, Winston had to accept that 2+2 was both four and five. Because, if Big Brother says it's five, one cannot doubt the morals and good intentions of Big Brother. Now, applying doublethink to leftism, we have gender studies. Male and female chromosomes are the equivalent of 2+2 equal four. But the complex studies of genders as a social construct, non-binary, non-conforming, ever-changing, never-settling is the equivalent of 2+2 equals five. The indoctrination of gender studies has the goal of dissatisfaction. One, subjected to such, should never be satisfied with it's own body, self, and family ties (much like a cult, parting the individual from it's family). And if the individual is dissatisfied, it is pushed towards progression. Which, often, results in body modification. These victims (sometimes, as young as five years old) become live propaganda. And, despite all the changes, they end up still dissatisfied.
Newspeak: In the book, newspeak is the manipulation of language for the benefit of Big Brother. Some words, erased, like 'lovely', 'freedom', 'lie', 'love'. And some words, created and enforced, like 'upsub' that means the greatness in submitting to Big Brother. Or 'crimestop', that means not accepting ideas that go against Big Brother. The current leftism uses newspeak on a daily basis. And they shift or create more words daily too. Woke, equity, gender studies, pregnant people, latinx, systemic, structural, social justice, microaggression, problematic, cis, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, mansplain, trigger, theybies, maps (minor-attracted people, formerly known are pedophiles). All of these words have the goal of causing confusion. To describe something simple as if it's extremely hidden, new, and complex.
Thoughtcrime: In the book, thoughtcrime is any thought or belief that goes against the party Ingsoc (English Socialism) or Big Brother. Now, this is the most basic aspect of current leftism. No one is allowed to question abortion, or trans progression, or the lgbt change of name for inclusion (which certainly weakened the lgbt community's strength). No one is allowed to question feminism or racial arguments. No one is allowed to question left-wing leaders and misconduct. And, most important, no one is allowed to question progression. If anyone does so, they are immediately ostracized and shamed, being called transphobic, racist, homophobic, and misogynistic without committing said crime (which weakens the severity of the crime itself).
All the tactics used by Ingsoc and Big Brother in the books 1984, by George Orwell, are being currently used by the left. George Orwell, himself, was a democratic socialist, but he was also a free thinker. And he wrote 1984 and Animal Farm as criticisms against Stalinism and the Third Reich. He wrote the flaws of both right-wing and left-wing into a single book. The far left and the far right are so similar that they almost touch, like says the Horseshoe Theory.
Personally, I don't think this division of right-wing and left-wing is serving society anymore. Our political concepts need to evolve in union (and not sink deeper into hateful separation).
If a single person reads this post and realizes that they are free thinkers, I'll be happy. The left is not the moral ground that it claims to be. Because their morals are not open and honest. Their morals are constructed by repeated arguments. Much less, the left is a counter-culture. The left and its progressiveness, right now, is the status quo. They will walk society forward, without a care, even if straight into a cliff.
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