January 28, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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To listen to all of John Batchelor’s podcasts, well worth your time, go here.
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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“Rabbit Seasoning” (1952)
[pronoun trouble]
https://youtu.be/6e1hZGDaqIw
2:04
Wayne – With Bugs Bunny I expected a good non-postmodern laugh.
But noooo! I’m sucked back into the variation of the Simulation which includes 543 pronouns.
Thanks Wayne for wrecking my morning coffee buzz while looking out at frozen sheets of pristine snow covered farmland.
I guess I’ll return to listening to that PKD novel you previously linked to. Like PKD, I will accept the experience of radical instability in the boundaries that define me and my corner of this awesome frozen world.
And now that I’m back in the Simulation, I can genuinely say I take offense at this heteronormative Bugs Bunny video. And please don’t reply with the lame excuse that it’s an animation from 1952.
And Wayne, don’t take my WOKE criticism personally. I, myself, like every good citizen now participate in regular confessions regarding our Non-Woke thought crimes (or misdemeanors). I recently confessed that I am intimidated by the sheer size of the spectrum of gender identities. The PC police will probably jump on me for this, but this whole choose/name your pronouns thing is becoming too much for me to handle. In my defense, I’ve been given dispensation since I suffer from face blindness which falls under the Americans with Disability Act. For the record, I have nothing against those who want to change their gender. More power to them. However unfair issues arise when people around me who are genetically XX or XY change their pronouns on a whim. These ‘thems’ then expect everyone to cater to their choices. I’m sorry, but no, with my face blindness condition I cannot see the new gender cues that apparently the rest of society can.
But the biggest problem is this whole them/theirs thing. These are plural pronouns. The problem is simply one of confusion. Using plural pronouns for singular persons is confusing, and irritating when reading or listening. Are they talking about one person, or more than one? Sometimes, who knows!
Now, let me be clear, I’m 100% against bigotry in any form whatsoever, period. I’m suggesting that we simply come up with a new word/pronoun for those who don’t want to use he/she. I honestly don’t see the big deal about coming up with a new word. But, even then, trying to force choosing/naming one’s pronouns all the time is not something I can mentally deal with. No offense to anyone, but just no. This dog is too disabled for those new tricks