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Always amazed and amused by the "right-coded" journalists in Canada who are in a rage over Quebec's language and cultural laws. Why can't those hicks see the benefits of being isolated economic units?
In 50 years Quebec will be recognizably Quebec; this is unlikely true on the sub 25 year timeframe for Ontario and BC.
" ...To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of civilization."
Say what you will about his philosophy, but he is 150 million bajillion percent bang on with that quote.
I read about the Algerians switching to English over French a while back. Some guy talks about how colonization is a turn off for studying French. Lol. Algeria is probably worse off switching to English.
With Hamas in the news I became aware for the first time of the existence of that portion of the hadith quoted in their charter concerning murderous Jew-hating inanimate objects. I suppose it was finally topical enough to break through the MSM embargo that had hitherto worked effectivly on me. Makes me wonder what other nasty stuff might be found in Islamic sacred scriptures.
I don't think Anglophone Canadians understand what "massive" means (used twice in this article by different people). English is the first language of 50% of Canadians and French 22%, the rest being mostly immigrant languages. So yes, there are definitely more English speakers, but I don't think two to one is "massive"
Great commentary as always. Query how the geopolitical power balance will be impacted if the Western left is able to impose its full environmental agenda on its middle and lower classes with no viable alternatives (nuclear would be the closest but its out of favor). Russia and China (and other named and unnamed components of the BRICS axis) are unlikely to ever limit their energy output to the extent it materially impacts growth/output. It could be sort of an inversion of the Cold War dynamic where Russia essentially began to implode under its own weight and over-extension (perhaps why China's strategy thus far has been Fabian) although one cannot underestimate Turbo American dynamism.
I love Montreal, and was devastated following its draconian approach throughout much of the COVID madness.
That being said, I fear for the Quebecois culture in the inevitable wake of what will come of this apparently-genuine push to create a Schengen Zone between Canada-United States-Mexico that could eventually extend through more of Central and maybe even South America. That’s always seemed like one of the logical end results (obviously, among many) of the U.S.’s studious attempt to completely disregard its southern border: the creation of a new American super-state.
Vladimir Putin may be a paranoid autocrat and a failing military strategist but when he talks about people in the West who want to "destroy [its]traditional values and impose their pseudo-values... which would corrode [it] from within" you surely have to ask yourself if does have a point? https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
It's so difficult just now to depart from the stock take on Russia without being damned as a Putin apologist. But viewing Russia as the great bete noir has long been a bit of a fixation of our political/media complex. There have always been better candidates for this label. Russia's huge contribution to European culture just gets airbrushed out.....Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Solzhenitsyn etc..... where else on the planet is there a culture with such deep links to our own? Thanks to the block headed insistence - after the fall of Soviet Communism in 1989 - that it instantly re-invent itself as a full-on liberal democracy or else, a huge oppotunity to draw Russia into the Western fold was squandered by the Cold War-fixated establishment. I am therefore one of many who think the West bears at least a measure of responsibility for goading Russia into the Ukraine conflict.
By taking time to kill infants in the midst of a (somewhat credible?) military operation, Hamas voluntarily removed itself from being considered as anything remotely human.
Im glad the Quebecois are protecting their culture. It used to annoy me but as I’ve aged I see the priceless value of heritage and customs. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Not exactly on-topic but...my wife is Franco-Ontarian from Ottawa and we visit from Nova Scotia every summer. Our stopping point is always Riviere du Loup in Quebec where the Trans-Canada meets the St Lawrence River. A few years ago, my daughter had some stomach pain so we took her to the hospital there. Being bilingual, my wife went inside to the emerge with the daughter to get her registered while I parked the car. Once inside, she informed me that they wouldn't accept her legal, married name as the mother of our daughter. She must provide her birth name to allow the daughter to be registered. Not sure if this is a provincial policy in Quebec or just the maneuvers from a small town health bureaucrat but kind of interesting.
I find the computer simulation theory to be entirely too elaborate because it still leaves questions as to the nature of the computation, and the laws under which that higher reality must be subject.
Good old fashioned idealism, in my view, is the better approach. It still leaves some mystery but it nicely avoids the contorted incoherence of materialism. I think Schopenhauer pretty much got it right.
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Always amazed and amused by the "right-coded" journalists in Canada who are in a rage over Quebec's language and cultural laws. Why can't those hicks see the benefits of being isolated economic units?
In 50 years Quebec will be recognizably Quebec; this is unlikely true on the sub 25 year timeframe for Ontario and BC.
I've posted this quote from Fanon before
" ...To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of civilization."
Say what you will about his philosophy, but he is 150 million bajillion percent bang on with that quote.
I read about the Algerians switching to English over French a while back. Some guy talks about how colonization is a turn off for studying French. Lol. Algeria is probably worse off switching to English.
With Hamas in the news I became aware for the first time of the existence of that portion of the hadith quoted in their charter concerning murderous Jew-hating inanimate objects. I suppose it was finally topical enough to break through the MSM embargo that had hitherto worked effectivly on me. Makes me wonder what other nasty stuff might be found in Islamic sacred scriptures.
I don't think Anglophone Canadians understand what "massive" means (used twice in this article by different people). English is the first language of 50% of Canadians and French 22%, the rest being mostly immigrant languages. So yes, there are definitely more English speakers, but I don't think two to one is "massive"
Great commentary as always. Query how the geopolitical power balance will be impacted if the Western left is able to impose its full environmental agenda on its middle and lower classes with no viable alternatives (nuclear would be the closest but its out of favor). Russia and China (and other named and unnamed components of the BRICS axis) are unlikely to ever limit their energy output to the extent it materially impacts growth/output. It could be sort of an inversion of the Cold War dynamic where Russia essentially began to implode under its own weight and over-extension (perhaps why China's strategy thus far has been Fabian) although one cannot underestimate Turbo American dynamism.
I love Montreal, and was devastated following its draconian approach throughout much of the COVID madness.
That being said, I fear for the Quebecois culture in the inevitable wake of what will come of this apparently-genuine push to create a Schengen Zone between Canada-United States-Mexico that could eventually extend through more of Central and maybe even South America. That’s always seemed like one of the logical end results (obviously, among many) of the U.S.’s studious attempt to completely disregard its southern border: the creation of a new American super-state.
Militarizing for NATO Ukraine in 2014, and recent US arm sales to Taiwan remind of Hitler moving the Wehrmacht into Rhineland in early spring 1939.
Russia operations in Ukraine since Feb 2022 are what France should have done about Rhineland!
Certainly China sees the historic rhyme.
Russia and the West......
Vladimir Putin may be a paranoid autocrat and a failing military strategist but when he talks about people in the West who want to "destroy [its]traditional values and impose their pseudo-values... which would corrode [it] from within" you surely have to ask yourself if does have a point? https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
It's so difficult just now to depart from the stock take on Russia without being damned as a Putin apologist. But viewing Russia as the great bete noir has long been a bit of a fixation of our political/media complex. There have always been better candidates for this label. Russia's huge contribution to European culture just gets airbrushed out.....Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Solzhenitsyn etc..... where else on the planet is there a culture with such deep links to our own? Thanks to the block headed insistence - after the fall of Soviet Communism in 1989 - that it instantly re-invent itself as a full-on liberal democracy or else, a huge oppotunity to draw Russia into the Western fold was squandered by the Cold War-fixated establishment. I am therefore one of many who think the West bears at least a measure of responsibility for goading Russia into the Ukraine conflict.
Thank you Me Soldo. I'm from Québec and it is rare to hear about us from outside of here and not be scolded as Mr Black is doing here. Thank you gain.
One thing is settled beyond doubt:
By taking time to kill infants in the midst of a (somewhat credible?) military operation, Hamas voluntarily removed itself from being considered as anything remotely human.
Im glad the Quebecois are protecting their culture. It used to annoy me but as I’ve aged I see the priceless value of heritage and customs. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
A tad of theatrics...afterall, what normal homosexual such as moiself doesn't adore drama queenery?
"Video 1: Two female Hamas terrorists waving guns.
Video 2: The same women pretending to be victims of a bombing while dressed as civilians for the cameras."
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1715414447865410044
Not exactly on-topic but...my wife is Franco-Ontarian from Ottawa and we visit from Nova Scotia every summer. Our stopping point is always Riviere du Loup in Quebec where the Trans-Canada meets the St Lawrence River. A few years ago, my daughter had some stomach pain so we took her to the hospital there. Being bilingual, my wife went inside to the emerge with the daughter to get her registered while I parked the car. Once inside, she informed me that they wouldn't accept her legal, married name as the mother of our daughter. She must provide her birth name to allow the daughter to be registered. Not sure if this is a provincial policy in Quebec or just the maneuvers from a small town health bureaucrat but kind of interesting.
"One of the most incomprehensible actions of the US-led West has been to push Russia and China closer together."
It is the West's way of punishing Putin by throwing him into the arms of Xi.
I find the computer simulation theory to be entirely too elaborate because it still leaves questions as to the nature of the computation, and the laws under which that higher reality must be subject.
Good old fashioned idealism, in my view, is the better approach. It still leaves some mystery but it nicely avoids the contorted incoherence of materialism. I think Schopenhauer pretty much got it right.