[quote=Kaga]
I just felt the need to point out the ridiculousness of that statement.I added the second part to clarify that I couldn't put together of a drawn-out response to it all, and thus I would just "let Dervish handle it" since he pretty much already said everything I was thinking, anyway, so I would just leave the rest to him rather than fully jumping in, myself.
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He does this to me all the time. :hehe

[quote=Lo Pellegrino]
I'll definitely say you're right, thankfully, that a lot of the old meanings are changed. But they're not lost. A lot of those symbols still ring true to us, even if their meaning is merely in the general direction of the original intention. I mean, just look at the Apple of Adam and Eve. It doesn't actually exist, Jewish/Christian literature only calls it a fruit and I figure apple's probably aren't the first you'd expect in Africa/Western Asia, yet despite all that, an Apple today has this power as an image that harkens back. The meaning isn't quite the same today as it was before, nor is the symbol, but we still feel the gist of it. In the same way those old fairy tales still guide our stories now. And the old ways of painting those archetypes definitely show through. You don't have to be a progressive liberal to note the deep racism even Bruce Lee experienced in Hollywood, where colour is all too often exotified and demonized. The odd ball racist doesn't quite account for the incarceration ratios in America either. Overall, if the stories we use repeat from generation to generation, built from old biases, even if the cancer is dead, do you still want to raise your children around it? In all seriousness, I do agree that things have changed. We hide our judgements in small gestures, all too often unaware that what we are doing and saying is actually very hurtful. I really dig the idea of bringing some other mythologies and forms of entertainment like Dinh's suggesting for its freshness and willingness to explore something that defies some basic rules in Western society.@Dinh: Never been to Ferguson, and while I'm aware of what's going on over there, I don't have to go 20 miles to see what our country thinks of other cultures. Uh... okay. I'm pretty certain Dervish responded already, not that he needed permission, so, why post that you have nothing to post?
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Ugh, please clean up after your bleeding heart. You're making a mess.