Very interesting. Are there any works you’d recommend that talk more about this? Besides the one @Wertheimer recommended, that is.
Didn’t Hellenistic era Greeks have their own internal ethnic chauvanism going on though? Like Ionians didn’t like Dorians who didn’t like Magnetes or whatever?
I jotted down a line after finishing the game and its DLC that I was pretty proud of:
“Two species came to this star system to find God. One could not bear His truths. The other, He smote.”
The problems of 2014, of 1992, of 1979, of 1968, of 1963, of 1955…
A good handful of mostly Black, leftist organizers have “mysteriously” died since Ferguson way back in 2014. Same as it ever was.
This 10-year-old girl already owns 2 companies is a tax patsy for her rich parents and could retire become a run-of-the-mill failchild at 15 as a multimillionaire
Who are the settlers in Palestine? The poor and dispossessed from Israel and from around the world.
Is this really the case though? I know there are some Israeli Haredi groups (with members living below the poverty line) that sponsor settlers, but I’ve also known some perfectly comfortable Americans that move out near Bethlehem.
Some of the settlements have pretty comfortable conditions even by U.S. standards, and even as nearby Palestinian neighborhoods still have to ration daily water.
Suddenly flashing back to that one dialogue where a human woman is desperately trying to get her mixed human/asari daughter out of a warzone and the galactic beuracrat she’s speaking to initially won’t do anything until the woman gives an emotional Sorkin speech that changes the beuracrat’s mind.