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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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That's just my take on it; the US of A is a rather sad little country now-a-days...
Yeah, I do think other countries can be more free by some definition. And yes, the founders of the USA attempted to assimilate the native people, people they imported from other countries, and immigrants, but I think in the end, the US was the one changed. I don't think there's a single person born in America with a heritage of the founding fathers anymore. Everyone's a little bit of everything.
What makes the borg the borg is that they are a well oiled machine, pretty much literally. Everyone thinks the same thing, feels the same thing, and acts in the same way. They're more of an over-exaggerated symbol of a communist party and what they aimed for, which was everyone equal, everyone the same. America's not like that, because everyone is different in appearance, religion, opinion, and history. I'm sure the government would like it if we could easily be controlled to all perform the same way; that makes things easier for them, but it's inhuman. That's why Seven of Nine was reverted from being borg, because the crew knew it was wrong.
But then again, like I said, that's not so much a problem with the US government and...society and human hivemind mentality. Even after a full world history and those weird ones who think differently making a difference, power is still seen as being "worth more" than kindness and real intellect. Meh. 'Nuf of that.
On the flip side and a much lighter note.. I've always been amused by the borg. x3
I don't understand the concept of "normal" anymore except that it's something common, not something widely accepted. For example, it's normal for celebrities to cheat, do drugs, and break laws, and normal for no harsh penalties to befall them, but it shouldn't be normal for people to think that's ok. Normal has a different meaning to everyone because I think it's normal to want to torture rapists and child molesters, where as someone pleading for human rights would think it's normal to give a lighter sentence, or something.
Maybe it gets more literal or political than that, I'm not sure, but I think the crowd of geeks, nerds, artists, gays, or w/e label a person feels a part of, is growing and more people have opted to join. It's mostly online that we can access more people with similar ideas and interests, and reach people that want to feel more accepted, thus making that community grow.
That's just my point of view, because I prefer to be abnormal; I don't make an attempt to fit in to anything, but I make no attempt not to. I just do what I do.
I think they're pretty scary ._. What your favorite borg moment?
Well..I dislike the whole not having your own mind thing, the working like robots thing... but I sort of like the grungy tech appeal, I suppose. haha
Favourite moment? Oh wow...wow. I don't even know..the first thing that comes to mind is from the movie First Contact (surprised? lol) when the Borg Queen is making passes at Data. Haha
I'd hate it always hearing everyone else's thoughts. It would never truly be silent, and everyone would hear my thoughts
Lol!
The other, more real life reasons, have more to do with social standards, generalization even though people aren't all the same, and the way people get treated for being different. The fact that the USA has killed more people total by bombing other countries, than have ever been accused of terrorism world wide. It's about control of the many through fear and mental warfare. Claiming we're "free", but not telling us what that means or that life in some other countries is actually more "free" by general standards.
This has nothing to do with the so called accomplishments or slavery. And if you don't think the US has assimilated anyone? Hello? We may have been born in this country, but the founders of a so called great nation weren't. They took it, by force. What would you call that?