Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: looking for..um.. a certain piece of clothing prop

mizombie opened this issue on Feb 21, 2003 ยท 23 posts


_dodger posted Sat, 22 February 2003 at 9:36 AM

the only to "offensive" elements that should be claimed as being "offensive" with any validity, are racism and sexism well, along with related isms... religionism (i.e. the concept that other religions are evil and should be punished or exterminated), culturism (the concept that because other cultures are different, they are automatically inferior to your own), nationalist intolerance (the idea that other countries, even those that share your culture, as in the case of Canada, America, and Aussie, are somehow inferior), partisanism (the idea that your preferred political party and the elected leaders therein are always right and other always wrong simply because you decided it was your political party), subculturism (the idea that because someone has a different aesthetic then you, that they are 'weird' and 'bad' -- Goths put up with this one a lot), and of course homophobia. There are a few others that aren't issues now, but might be in the future. While these may seem humourous now, they could be very serious issues in the distant or maybe even not-too-distant future. For instance, speciesism/xenophobia -- when we finally encounter another similarly intelligent species in the universe they might not be too happy with us if we decide they are bad ebcause they aren't human (or vice-versa), related concepts apply to this, like potentially Hominidism, Mammalianism, and Vertebratism -- say we encounter two intelligent lifeforms someday, and one is a vaguely hominid mammal-like live-birth, warm-blooded, beaver-like species, while the other is a silicon-based arthropoidal insect-lookin' thing... and the first decide to hate us because we're mostly bald and smarter than they are, while the second is really peaceful and intelligent, but we decide to hate them because they look like metallic bugs or something... Oragnicism could be an issue in our near future depending on how computer science evolves -- if artificial intelligence becomes a reality, we could be faced with the possibility of racism between man and machine, either direction or both. It's all in fun right now to think of figures like, for instance, Darth Vader as cool in their evilness, but really think about it -- what would we say in the real world if someone was a major figure in the rise to power of a government that casually destroyed ten billion people and extinctified quadrillions of lifeforms and countless unique environments all with a single command just to deomnstrate their power to a single political prisoner (as in, the destruction of Alderaan in Star Wars)? We (or our descendants) might have to think about issues like this. Sure, a real Death Star doesn't seem likely to us, but then try explaining a Chinook helicopter to Alexander the Great and watch his eyebrow raise, you know? I'm not saying to take Star Wars seriously, but, rather, to accept the necessary place villains occupy in fiction, which is what we usually create with Poser. The real world, however, can do without them.