<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Steve,<br><br> I was riffing on what Dave wrote about his use of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema">Nacerima Technique</a>(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.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Davew writes:<br>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
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<br>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" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China">Terrorism in China</a>) in Patagonia, AZ with American civilian collateral damage.<br><br>-S<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">Stephen.Guerin@Simtable.com</a><div>CEO, Simtable <a href="http://www.simtable.com/" target="_blank">http://www.simtable.com</a><br><div>1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505<div><div>office: (505)995-0206 <span style="font-size:12.8px">mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">twitter: @simtable</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://zoom.com/j/5055775828" target="_blank">zoom.com/j/5055775828</a></span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:47 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:Arial">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.<br>
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FWIW, I very much appreciated the flip and was surprised
it got a rise.</div>
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<div>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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Tiananmen_Square_attack" target="_blank"> 2013 Tiananmen
Square Attack.</a> 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 <a href="https://www.circlez.com/" target="_blank">Circle Z Ranch</a> 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?<br>
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<p>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?<br>
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<p>Wow! That is really close to where I own a piece of land where I
have been <a href="http://www.caneloproject.com/" target="_blank">building my "bolthole"</a>
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!).<br>
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<div>Here's the Chinese Account of the Story:<br>
<font color="#000000">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<a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral/us-drone-attack-marriage-procession-yemen" target="_blank">美国在也门使用无人机的类比</a>。</font><br>
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Punked again!<br>
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