Generalization, Eastern philosophy, Gypsies, animals, retards from DEI and women who cannot drive.

Hello, dear people!

I started my previous podcast by complaining about losing my audience and guess what happens next?

I got a message from a long-lost friend.

He didn’t even say ‘hi’, he simply informed me that I still have someone listening to my podcasts.

Braver! Good to hear from you, Yedid!

I also got a beautiful reply from someone who corrected me without making me look like a fool.

Dear Veronique, thank you.

I highly recommend reading the whole reply, by the way. It’s very well written. Here it is:

Democracy and chemical castration | A WORLD ACCORDING TO GEMINI

The statement which needed correction was, ‘If every politician in the world is replaced with a woman, the world will be a better place’.

Dear Veronique, you are absolutely right. I generalized without providing context. I will attempt to do it now.

So, our topics for today are – generalization, stereotypes, Eastern philosophy, Gypsies, animals, retards from DEI and women who cannot drive.

First of all, what is a generalization? I’d like to look clever, so here is a quote from Wikipedia. ‘A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or clams’.

Way too clever for my taste. Let’s simplify and let’s look at why we need to organize everything by categories, put everything in boxes and assign a label to every box?

A rabbit meets a wolf. He has to assume that the wolf is going to eat him. The rabbit cannot afford to assume that the wolf might be not hungry, might be a vegetarian or a liberal. It’s better for the rabbit to be safe than sorry, so rabbit has to leg it if he can. Animals are simple creatures. They don’t know anything about the DEI ideology. They would rather stay alive than being labeled a ‘Fascist’ or a ‘Right-winger’. Animals generalize for practical reasons like safety or survival.

By the way, as we started with animals, here’s a little intermezzo, a little sidestep from our main topic. We love to assign human qualities to the animals. For example if you are a cat owner, you prefer to think that your cat loves you, which she doesn’t, by the way. She doesn’t care. She eats your food and she likes to cuddle. The average cat is a selfish, calculating and cold hearted egoist who will betray you the moment you stop providing her with food and shelter, but you love to think there’s a bond between you and your kitty. How mistaken you are!!!  I was hurt so many times I stopped caring. They know exactly how to behave to keep you hooked. Also, they are great deceivers. Here is a story of my granddad who was duped by a Siberian cat. My granddad used to tell everyone that our cat Masha loves classical music. Every time when he had guests in his house, he would prove it by switching on a radio. Masha would immediately jump on top of the radio and pretend that she is enjoying her Vivaldi. Yeah, right. It was my grandmother who put things straight and told my granddad what was really happening. Masha couldn’t care less about Vivaldi. You see, 50 years ago an average Soviet radio was as big as a fridge. It was powered by five or six bulbs and a massive converter, which generated lots of heat. She would jump there because it was warm and because she was getting a lot of attention from the guests. The truth is, Masha would do it even if it was playing ‘Spice Girls’. You see the amount of deception?

My granddad was heartbroken.

Exactly the same thing happened to me this morning. I have two friends, two Robins. One is fat and one is skinny. Every morning they start banging on our door demanding food. Then I’d get out and put a bit of bread in the little bowl. My friend Olesya used to say, ‘Oooooo, Oleg, your friends are here. They love you so much!!!’. This morning Olesya went out and put some seeds in the bowl. Those two forgot everything about me and our friendship. When I came out for a smoke expecting their attention, there was none. They were not hungry anymore so they didn’t care.

Now I start questioning what was really happening between me and Gerome the Rat! All those beautiful moments when I was pouring out my soul and he listened. Was he really? Or was he simply waiting for his goat’s cheese? My pet spider Adolf….he would come out of his corner every day to hear my stories. Or was he simply waiting for the big fat fly I had in my hand? Anyway, it all ended up tragically. Adolf was painted over when I was on tour and Gerome was murdered by the cheerful Czech lad who came in when I was away and left a medieval device which could cut a middle-sized dog in half. He came back a week later and announced, ‘Good news, my friends. There’s no life here anymore’.

About animals and tragedies.

I grew up in a town which was very close to Taiga – a Soviet equivalent of a rain forest. Obviously there were animals. Sometimes our schools were closed because someone saw the tiger tracks and hunters were out chasing him away. We had encounters with bears who would rob you if you went to collect nuts or berries; we had foxes trying to make friends with our chickens and so on. We had this family who had adopted a baby tiger. She was cuddly, friendly and she loved everyone. My granddad kept saying that this is a very bad idea. Yes, you guessed correctly. One day the tiger had the whole family for dinner and ran away. That’s it, the end. Animals are not humans. Their existence is governed by instincts and it’s not a good idea to pretend otherwise. Be careful now, mind your kitty.

About the stereotypes in a human word.

What’s the difference? We still have our basic instincts, i.e. survival and procreation programmed in our DNA, but we also have plenty of other abilities like rationality, ego, morals, imagination, jealousy, greed, competitiveness and so on. In our case a need to generalize and to stereotype is being governed not just by our instincts but by all those factors as well.

We do it because our brains are overwhelmed with information and the only way for our brains to process everything and to continue functioning without shutting down is to simplify and systematize everything. It makes life easier and it keeps our software from crashing. The question is – how and why we use it. It’s very tempting to use stereotypes to win our endless arguments and most of us still think that we can prove our point by generalizing, but we have to remember that even one exception renders the whole argument useless. Every single stereotype can be proven to be false. ‘Women cannot drive, Americans are fat, Gypsies are thieves, Germans have no sense of humor, French are rude, and so on’. Really? I have a dear friend who is a woman and she is an excellent driver. I am a Gypsy and I don’t steal. My German manager made a successful joke back in the 1997 and I’m pretty sure I laughed. Once I saw an American who wasn’t fat. Also, French are only rude to foreigners. I had a meal in Paris last year and a waiter smiled when I came in. He stopped smiling when he heard my barbarian accent, but you get the point, I’m sure.

So, you can generalize in order to get a general idea but not to prove anything. Agreed?

Next. Who can generalize? Here is a phrase from the old Soviet movie, ‘Only aristocrats and degenerates drink champagne in the morning!’

It seems that only highly evolved people or simpletons are able to generalize without making fools of themselves. Intellectuals know that stereotypical thinking is deeply flawed as there are no rules without exceptions and simpletons use generalization because it makes everything simpler. Fools see the world in black and white and if they don’t generalize, their brains will not be able to deal with the world complexities.

I am not considering myself a highly evolved person or a simpleton, but I still generalize. I do have an excuse though. I don’t use it to prove anything, only to get a general idea, nothing else, which leads us to the next question.

Why do you want to generalize, what is your intention? Do you want to make a point or win an argument? In a human world generalization if used as an argument inevitably leads to separation, racism and sexism. It leads to DEI, Black Lives Matter, KKK and Auschwitz.

Veronique, you mentioned two female politicians who didn’t make a world a better place. One of them is a power hungry and most likely corrupt schemer who manipulated her way into the EU by making false promises, betraying her comrades and who is now becoming a dictator with zero morals and ethics. Another one is someone who will stay in the British history as a shortest serving Prime Minister ever and who made a fool of herself by thinking she can compete with Sergey Lavrov. She has a personality of a poodle and intellectual abilities of a penguin.

Those two have something in common. They both have zero creativity, zero feminine energy, they create disharmony and their intentions are not to create but rather to destroy. They both are biological females but they don’t represent feminine energy. When I said ‘Women’, I meant mentally, physically and spiritually healthy women who naturally strive for harmony, creativity, unity and balance. That’s a female energy. Men analyze, provide, build, fart and break things. That’s a male energy. See, I am generalizing again.

And you are absolutely correct – I shouldn’t have said ‘Women’ at all. It’s sexism in reverse. People should not be chosen for their gender or ethnicity, they should be chosen for their abilities and intentions. They should be given equal opportunities in education, equal rights, and then it’s a jungle, baby. If you are a right person for the job, if you have abilities, education, good intentions and can make things happen, the world is yours regardless if you are a man, a woman, a crocodile, trans, straight, round, square, green, yellow, old, slim…..

If you a fat girl who cannot carry a person out of the burning house – too bad, the fire-fighter job is not for you. If you are a midget who cannot run and detain a male criminal, go and direct traffic.

Well. This is my dose of rambling and Veronique – I hope I’ve corrected my mistake, BUT!

Being a Gemini I still think that women, (providing they are not corrupted by ideology) are much better at creating peace and harmony than men.

Love you all!