Chronamut

that was beautifully worded, and reflects much of what I feel - I often relate to the role of the existential hero, because I feel how people act and how the world works is not conductive to how I feel.

I always found parts of the lion king to be a bit dark for kids... I guess disney was testing the waters with the whole circle of life thing.. trying to make passing on and renewal more.. people friendly.

the eye licking thing.. I wonder if alligators actually do that.. I could see him as having taught the pinkie. THE PINKIE KNOWS ALL. ALL WISDOM FOR THE PINKIE. he sounds like Q from star trek, more than dischord does, with that little nugget of knowledge hehe..

I LOVE russian pinkie. Pinkie eats icecream to rebel against pinkies oppressors. Pinkie's persona would make for a great anti-pinkie - or another anti-pinkie persona

pinkie would win because she exists outside of normal logic or reason.

what is gummys role in the whole cosmic picture? And what about gummys flank, forever blank? And can gummy talk, or does he only dream? And was I the only one that just watched that whole aside with the "omg" look while a grin crept wider and wider onto my face of "WHAT COULD THIS MEAN? WHAT DOES THIS OPEN UP?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9AoEDUsXo

I am sure you could find a certain someone to show you how thay might go about.. tirek HD anyone?

and what was the snowboarders talent in the town? What of the talents that don't FIT the town? it would be like having a cutie mark in telecommunications and then being put in an amish town and being told to milk goats.

I think like many things there are many angles and lights one can view things in I think in the end it's simply that both have a shared thread of dictatorship - "our town" is just a silent dictatorship. Democracy can also be a silent dictatorship, where people are gradually conditioned not to fight back.

very astute picture there

it's cultural sheepism - I look outside and every man looks the same, has the same haircut, dresses the same, talks the same, everything is so programmed it scares me - and then I walk in and they look at me as if I am an alien - like I am neo in the matrix, and the system needs to either ignore me or attack me. also americans have a choice what they become - in our town, everyone is assigned a role, and expected to share equally with everyone else - that IS communism. Hence the word - commune - ism - commune being a village or community.

because to be equine is to be divine literally, in some cases..

imo it represents what communism BECAME. China and North Korea are prime examples.

one has to understand the pre colombian natives role to the earth. Yes some of the civilizations, like the inca and the aztecs participated in blood sacrifices, but their view of the world was SO drastically different from ours. They had a very spiritual connection to the earth, and the earth spirits, through their gods. They harvested gold and used it as tribute offerings to their gods mainly - it was almost seen as a waste product to them. In their world the gods created mankind out of corn and water, and provided the rain for life, and in exchange for this, humans would spill their blood and burn it, and the smoke from that would reach the heavens and nourish the gods, and the cosmos and keep the sun alive, and keep the cosmos in balance and moving. In doing so the gods would continue to provide rain and keep the earth alive. It also kept them from overpopulating the continent by keeping population levels in check. Thus to these people, any momentous occasion was celebrated with blood - the kings offered their own blood as sacrifice on their coronation - a woman would pierce her tongue to spill blood when a male heir was born, and warriers, when captured, were sacrificed on the alters to the gods, their blood being used to keep the gods alive. To the warrior this was seen as a high honour - blood was only spilled on the highest of honours. When a king died their closest nobles were sacrificed with them - it was seen as a very high honour. If a warrior was enslaved it was seen as a source of deep shame, as "unfit for the gods". The natives didn't even see their bodies as their own - the gods made them and thus they were simply giving back. Everything was done in honour and humility towards nature and their gods. The Spanish could not understand this - they saw it as barbaric, and thus they tore down their temples and alters and used them to build what they felt were "civilizing" churches. However the natives, while dying en-masse from the plagues of smallpox dysentery and tuberculosis the Spaniards brought over (about 90% of the entire indigenous populations died from this and warfare) couldn't understand the Spaniards selfishness, and their desire to change them. Why tax what could be given freely? Why steal what you could just ask for? They fought back and lost, and the Spaniards, like most places, sought to eradicate their culture entirely. Many of the cultures didn't have written languages, they used a system of strings with knots to display a wealth of information that the shamans would then interpret - how to interpret this became lost. Only the natives in the most remote areas that the Spaniards could not reach were spared - one of them being one of the tribes in the Colombian regions - I am half colombian myself. Thus the people were no more barbaric than anyone else in the world at that time. They fought each other, but for different reasons. Strength was valued, and sacrifice was seen as a way of life. They did not fight for selfish reasons, they did not kill without spiritual cause, and they did not waste resources or even see property as theirs. Everything belonged to everyone. In the area of peru - what I stated was correct (think maccu pichu area) If a region became troublesome the empire would conquer it, take the people and spread them out all over the empire so that their town was forever "defeated".

the = town of no name, the communist town where everyone is equal, nobody is special, a hearkening to the much reviled communism that still spooks governments and sends them on crusades to crush it in favour of democracy. What do you think of it? I think they portrayed it pretty well as to how it actually ends up in reality - one person who is NOT equal making sure everyone else IS. In the show the leaders house was set apart from the rest - she still had her cutie mark, although she pretended she didn't to appear as equal to the rest, and all others were forced to not overstep their bounds so that everyone had their place. ----- a lot of people like to vilify this concept, but the government system is not evil - it is simply a blank container of potential - what is "evil" is human nature. Human selfishness interferes. In the famous painting where Plato speaks with Aristotle - Plato points to the sky in idealism, speaking of a system of government which challenges human selfishness - people do not own land, and they do not belong to families - everything is communal. Aristotle however holds his hand over the earth saying that one must be rational - discussing polity - politics - where a balance is made using human selfishness as a tool - striving for capitalism etc. ----- so this concept has been tug of warred for years. Nobody being seen as superior has its merits. As a spiritual leader I see this concept only working if everyone involved understands how they are all collectively connected. Take the roots of a tree. A regular person would take a slice of them across, and see the root "slide" as a series of circles, with no connection to each other, but a communal minded person would also take a slice from top to bottom, showing the hierarchy chart of the roots and how they branch off - showing how all those dots are connected. The fingers are not separate - they belong to the same hand. Ideologically this system is ideal, but only if the people are ideal. If all the people see themselves as the same energy - they then become like a hive mind, working for the common good - knowing to hurt one is to hurt them all. ----- I am part indigenous south american native - and my people, before the spanish invaded, were united by one king who had the brilliant idea of free trade of surplus goods and free availability of food for anyone who wished it. In the lean years there was food to feed the old and sick and in good times plenty of food to be stored. Nobody was hungry, everyone had a role, doing whatever they did and trading for things they didnt - mountain towns were connected over vast distances, and everyone was happy. There was no adultery - everyone was equal in their own way. Noone was superior. Even the king was simply a protector, for there was no money. The areas even stopped their quarrelling, as quarrels were actually over fertile land and food. The spanish came in and destroyed all this - their greed for gold made them destroy every village, cast down their monuments to build churches, and take their spiritual relationship to the earth and their gods and cast it aside in favour of christianity. They destroyed an entire continents worth of cultures. ----- Thus this concept of being equal can exist - but each person has to be allowed to be themselves, while contributing their talents willingly - and I find this showed how while the concept of communism is great, how it is executed is out of selfishness, where everyone is forced a role they may not particularly want, and is expected never to aspire to anything greater. Your talents should be made to encourage surplus, so it can be shared with all. ----- The song I found especially powerful. I like this remix especially. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Vla_kKU7U Feel free to express your thoughts on all of this.