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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2021 9:49:34 GMT -6
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2021 9:59:25 GMT -6
Actually, complete isolation will eventually thin out the gene pool. Even though it wasn't mentioned openly, Captain America has a Wakanda link, and not just as the source for the metal of his shield. The Black Panther during that time very quietly helped the Howling Commandos and Captain America stand against HYDRA. Part of that stand was that the Vibranium for Cap's shield was knowingly provided to Howard Stark (not the US government, but Stark), so the shield really wasn't US gov't property like they would later claim because pretty sure old Cap had a Stark to go to and have another one made to pass along to Wilson.
And, in the movie,Black Panther the consternation wasn't that Killmonger's dad was a War Dog, it was that the child was left behind.
And, my own headcanon is that Gabe Jones was a Wakanda War Dog who continued to live outside of Wakanda to keep his home country appraised of outside goings on. And he was Nick Fury's pistol packing grandfather (on his momma's side) that Fury told Rogers about in the elevator as they were headed down to see the Insight helicarriers.
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Post by vitugglan on Jun 9, 2021 7:59:09 GMT -6
Looks like. Is like. So, aliens wrote Superman? It's getting crazy. Actors act. Writers write. That's what these professions do. Beatrix Potter was never a rabbit, Doyle was never a consulting detective. Rock Hudson was never in love with a woman. Their identities, or lack thereof, didn't limit them. People are getting stupid these days and boxing people up in prisons of their own minds. Yes, the big deal was leaving that child to fend for himself. They did wrong and their entire society paid for it. That child deserved better from his own people. It's a shame on the entire culture. If the population doesn't overflow soon, yes, then you get the problems associated with inbreeding. It may even lead to fewer and fewer of that culture until it disappears. A utopian society leads to huge problems as with the Mouse Utopia: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/ The system collapsed as the mice were given everything they needed. It's eerie in a current events sort of way. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 9, 2021 12:51:25 GMT -6
This (mouse Utopia) was in the 1960s and, quite frankly, they did not complete the experiment. So the drawn conclusions were wrong.
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Post by vitugglan on Jun 10, 2021 8:42:50 GMT -6
Not sure about that. The way the mouse society was going, it was about to implode under its own apathy, IMO. The mice weren't having mouse kids and the ones who were neglected them. A society can't function like that. It dies.
Another messed-up 'study' was the Stanford Prison Experiment. They can't do the Mouse Utopia experiment on humans because of the harm it could do to the people involved. They shouldn't have done the Stanford Prison Experiment for the same reason. People are funny. Even when they know they should get out they try to stick around to prove... something. That they're not quitters? That they're good sports? I don't know, and I think I'd try to stick with it because I said I would despite seeing that it wasn't in my best interests. I know they're putting a new spin on these studies now, but reading about them without commentary shows a disturbing picture.
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2021 22:02:44 GMT -6
Because a society that stagnates implodes and dies. And, what they did not know about rodents back then is that they are very intelligent. Yes, they had living space and food. But there was no enrichment in the environment. The poor animals were bored. Boredom leads to apathy. Apathy leads to stagnation. And on that scale, the mouse society imploded under the weight of all that mind numbing existence.
Thinking is basic write up on that was along the (screamingly simplified) lines of Ok, even if put into a mouse paradise, the "civilization" implodes after a time. This will happen to human societies too. Bummer.
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Post by vitugglan on Jun 11, 2021 5:45:40 GMT -6
Another marker of today's society. We've gone through this sort of stagnation before, back in the late 1960s to early 1970s, before the original Star Wars (no episode number, no subtitle at the time) blew Hollywood away. Right now, Disney is recycling its older fare and trying to turn it on its head with movies like Maleficent and Cruella, and live-action remakes of their more popular cartoons. They're failing. Other movies are, or at least seem to be, cardboard cutouts of decent fare. Books? Who reads any more? TV shows? Who watches TV? People are afraid to say anything because the Twitter mobs will come baying for their jobs. Fear restricts. Fear demoralizes. Yes, I do think the humans of today are in danger of going down the Mouse Utopia hole and your observation only strengthens that impression.
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