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Political Correctness has foreshadowed the "Post-Truth" movement, the inability to call a spade a spade or make decisions or predictions based on data that might possibly offend a group of people.
We know that purebred dogs - most having existed a mere hundred years or less - are genetically inferior; that they are generally stupid, sickly, prone to early death, those qualities they were bred for as well highlighted and amplified all the bad traits. Like the British Monarchy, any of the fancy European Aristocracies, with their selective inbreeding until they became weakened and anemic...
We allow that different nations have different advantages in sports largely due to their genetic (to some extent "racial") heritage.
...yet suggest for a minute that those same evolutions and adaptations that made a select group of people better swimmers or runners might have in some way made them "inferior" - aka intellectually, socially, or otherwise, and you're a racist. This is not good science. We've been breeding dogs - selectively, with the intent to create breeds - for only a couple of hundred years, tops, the results are in. To suggest that a group genetically isolated for 100, 1000, even tens of thousands of years, might have evolved some traits that show poor adaptive value to current civilization and circumstance labels you a racist.
I'm not particularly for this "racism" thing, of far more concern to me are the Cultural Liberals that would find value in the headhunters of Borneo, invite them into the country and feed them their children. Clearly that's a slight exaggeration, but only slight. The point of the argument is that as long as we continue to deny our differences we are denying the truth, and we were in the post-truth movement a long time before Donald Trump came to office...
in the Trailer for the Next Hogwarts Movie
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I'm in the trailer for the next Hogwarts movie. A giant wave, dimly flickering blue within, outlining the shapes of the magical sea creatures within, is moving in and around Hogwarts, Judi Dench is watching with a severe look upon her face, there are going to be problems for sure...
...Walking along the ramparts the waves are beginning to crest the tops, a trickle of water slowly making it's way over the mortar to trickle down the wall, looking at the waves off in the distance I don't think this is going to last long...
...with the boy Potter, going down the stairs beneath the waves into the castle, witches, dark flitting shadows, are darting in the arrowslits, marking pickaxes upon the wall, I find one and rub it out with my sleeve, I'm sure they're up to no good, boy Potter exclaims "They're looking for Treasure", and I look at him, he's a bit young for this, shouldn't he have aged a bit, and just like Keanu Reeves he grows up in front of me, lean and weathering, like a new action hero, he means business...
Post-Truth as an Art Movement
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There were the Cubists, the Surrealists, the Dadaists, the Modernists, the scornfully Modern, the absurdly Post-Modern, which - by definition - made no sense whatsoever, and a hundred others I've purposely omitted. Time forbidding and my limited brain obliging. But now perhaps, reflecting on not just the current political clime, but the world in general, we have the "Post-Truth" art movement.
Think - Art, so far in its ideals, has striven to express truth - whether through the accurate depiction of it's subjects, or on a more allegorical or metaphorical level. And it has often reflected the cultural and political clime from which it came.
But now, in the "Post-Truth" era of politics, how should art reflect that? Some questions. accuracy of form, line, shape, these are no longer important. Truth is no longer important. Metaphor - the expression of deeper, underlying truths, is unimportant. And - unlike other movements - Dadaism, which used recognizable representations, or Modernism, which might abstractly reveal elements of truth, the Post-Truth movement should concern itself with the utter rejection of all recognizable shape or form, of any pleasing harmony of colors, and to write this down is easy, but to illustrate it might be another thing entirely...
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