[FRIAM] Uighurs wobble but they don't fall down (was Re: millenarianism)

[Stephen Guerin]

Steve,

 I was riffing on what Dave wrote about his use of the Nacerima Technique
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema>(American Backwards) which I quoted
at the head. eg anthropologists describing American culture to American
students (eg teeth-brushing) as if it was a strange ritual described by an
ethnographer that didn't understand its purpose.

Davew writes:
> My rationale for the millennarian wrapper around my reply was not for
> comparison. It was a bad attempt to use the Nacerima technique to make "the
> familiar strange" in a way that allows people to become aware of that which
> they take for granted or to which they are usually blind - in the way that
> most people are unaware of the culture within which they are embedded.


I was explaining my Anihc (China) Technique that I really do use with my
family when we have discussions on the US sending assassin drones into
countries we're not at war with. They seem to think the US is wholly
justified because we're chasing "terrorists" albeit with regrettable
civilian casualties but consider it inexcusable when I flip to the
artificial case of China drone striking Uighur "terrorists" (Terrorism in
China <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China>) in Patagonia, AZ
with American civilian collateral damage.

-S
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:47 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> SG -
>
>
> Davew writes:
>> My rationale for the millennarian wrapper around my reply was not for
>> comparison. It was a bad attempt to use the Nacerima technique to make "the
>> familiar strange" in a way that allows people to become aware of that which
>> they take for granted or to which they are usually blind - in the way that
>> most people are unaware of the culture within which they are embedded.
>>
>
> FWIW, I very much appreciated the flip and was surprised it got a rise.
>
> Relatedly, I have used a Anihc Technique when discussing with my family on
> the over-reach of China's military and Secret Police outside of China. I
> use the 2013 case of how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) pursued
> the organizers of the 2013 Tiananmen Square Attack.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Tiananmen_Square_attack> The "Uighur
> 8" terrorists escaped Xinjiang and ultimately made it to Mexico to sneak
> across the border near Nogales and holed up in a small compound near
> Patagonia, AZ. The Chinese MSS launched a secret drone strike killing the
> 8. Unfortunately, there was a wedding going on at the Circle Z Ranch
> <https://www.circlez.com/> where 3 Americans were killed and 12 injured.
> The renewal of the TPA negotiations were going on and Obama and the CIA
> covered this up as a fake propane tank explosion negotiations on track. Fox
> News and Breittbart have a longstanding FOIA request for AmeriGas response
> records but this has been stonewalled and redacted for 7 years trying to
> uncover this story. Shouldn't China be held accountable to those American
> Families? How could Obama allow China to get away with launching a drone
> attack on sovereign US soil?
>
> First... I don't know the term Anihc Technique and my Google Fu is too
> weak today to find it apparently?   Inform me?   Or did you just punk us
> (me) with a made-up but authoritatively esoteric-sounding term?   You've
> punked me before and I'm sure you will do it again.  Buh!  Did you know
> that "gullible" is not in the dictionary?
>
> Wow!  That is really close to where I own a piece of land where I have
> been building my "bolthole" <http://www.caneloproject.com/> to prepare
> for the Apocalypto.   I can't believe I didn't know about this!    I guess
> I'm going to have to add anti-drone SAMs to my arsenal...  or step up my
> biohacking to re-introduce Pteradactyl Genes into Bald Eagles  to "capture
> them for salvage/re-use".  And I recommend taking the time to build a
> biogas reactor as an alternative to Propane... (because Apocalypse!).
>
> Here's the Chinese Account of the Story:
> 同志们，当然，中国没有在亚利桑那州进行无人驾驶飞机攻击，我将其用作美国在也门使用无人机的类比
> <https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral/us-drone-attack-marriage-procession-yemen>
> 。
>
> Punked again!
>
> - SS
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