Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
He may still find it dehumanising? Beavers are pests too.Honestly, if people want to compare Jews to anything, compare them to Beavers. Hard working, can build great things and can kick ass when needed.
@GoldRanger Would you say Beavers are a fairer comparison (especially since due to being Canadian I'd be positively inclined to them)? Animal comparisons when they are meant to evoke the positive qualities (like lions, tigers, etc.) are not considered offensive right?
Figure it would be best to argue against such comparisons by making a more loving ones, "No they are not like termites, they are like beavers. Beavers are cool."
I walked right into that one. I think of it intellectually but he saw it as rascist and demeaning since his people do get discriminated against. That tends to develop a persecution complex.
Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animal Nature
We are not unique in many different ways.
www.psychologytoday.com
Do you know what's funny? Intellectuals comparing humans to termites instead of a rascist.
@Scottty @ShieldWife
I'm starting to change my mind about insects and humans. Especially termites when it's not a racist comparing people for political reasons.
In the New York Times, reviewer Lucy Cooke wrote a generous rave of a review:UNDERBUG The Book
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology, is published by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Illustrations are by Thomas Shahan. In the UK, Underbug is published by Onewo…lisamargonelli.com
“This isn’t just a brilliant book about bugs. For almost a decade, Margonelli scrutinized the scientists and their work with the same forensic gaze they themselves applied to the insects. The result is a rare longitudinal insight into the slippery nature of scientific progress. “It was boring, risky, lonely, cerebral. And where termites were concerned undeniably trippy.” Watching an experiment in which termites are fed fluorescent water becomes “a decadent, Day-Glo, Warholian scene: eusociality as some kind of incestuous insect rave.”
In this hallucinogenic haze humans become ever more like termites to Margonelli; the termite mound a metaphor for brains, science and the complexity of existence. “Mounds became everything that mattered to me: The meaning of life. The key to the future. A parable about the interplay between the organized narratives of stories and the multilayered data and process that is science.”
She's a weird one. A termite nerd.
Some professor chose a group of people he deemed gifted to be his termites.
So termites can be used positively for gifted people.
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