richieadler

Any universe has at least one sentient being.

What in the hell is this idiocy?

If you live in a dictatorship, those rights don’t exist. The rights are earned or agreed upon by a collective. They don’t pre-exist. In an universe without sentient beings, the notion of “rights” is nonsense.

They come from God or Nature.

Bullshit. Gods aren’t real and nature gives nothing.

100% agreed.

No. Everyone should learn Esperanto as a second language and preserve the cultural tapestry of existing languages.

All cultural loss is a tragedy.

how easily the corporate marketing apparatuses think they can shove it down the public’s throat.

Let’s also remark: USian public. Outside the States the reliance in stereotypes and too-pretty or too-token-minority is so obvious that it detracts from enjoyment.

Argentinian here. Lately I mostly consume British TV. It’s immeasurably better. People act and look as real people.

That’s also why I find USian remakes disgusting. They lose all distinctiveness. A blatant case was the police drama Broadchurch (UK original) vs Gracepoint (US remake). The only common cast member was David Tennant. The UK characters feel as real people. The US characters were obviously actors. Olivia Coleman was believable as a police officer in a small fishing town. Anna Gunn… wasn’t.

Not the person you’re answering to, but: You say this as if everybody enjoys manual labor, sports and/or outdoor activities. None of the proposed activities elicits the least amount of interest for me, for example.