https://wallaceandgromit.fandom.com/wiki/Feathers_McGraw

Ooops, they created The Terror, it led to the guillotine, Pol Pot.

These leftists are “always” so certain. Arc of history and all that.

–Marge Piercy, “Rough Times” (1976)
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Barry Meislin:

Somehow your Zerohedge link reminded me of those lines from Piercy. She was hard-core SDS, then hard-left, feminist. She sure had an impact on me.

I think it’s a useful quote for understanding the left. They have an unshakeable conviction that they are a human wave hurling themselves upon the unjust rocks of the present in order to achieve that brighter moral future.

John Eastman demonstrating, once again, why he must be destroyed by “Biden” and all those patriotic Democrats…
(Compare with the link in my previous post:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-physiotherapist-leaders-announce-goal-eradicate-critics-gender-ideology-profession)

My understanding is that culture is the transmission of knowledge, behaviors and skills from one generation to the next through social learning not genetic inheritance. Not necessarily by language.

Such culture has been observed among mammals and birds.

Meaty questions. I haven’t checked Chat’s claims of current scientific thought, papers and whatnot, on whether it is truly learned behavior.

To me it looked like a rite of passage for the baby chicks. I can easily imagine the advantages such a rite would have for penguins.

I’ve done eight firewalks. A large crowd of people clustered around paths of red-hot coals, then one by one they walk the fire. There’s music and drumming and cheering. It’s deep and tribal.

You know it’s safe, because everyone else is doing it, and maybe even you did it before, but in that moment you have to belly up to the line, then storm through those coals all alone. Yes, you can feel the hot heat of the coals, but that doesn’t stop you.

Afterward, you know something a bit more about yourself.

I think people and penguins can use such an experience.

“Sidney Powell Handed Win After Judges Dismiss Disciplinary Effort By Texas State Bar”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sidney-powell-handed-win-after-judges-dismiss-disciplinary-effort-texas-state-bar
Opening graf:
“Sidney Powell, a lawyer who filed lawsuits after the 2020 election, got a win in Texas after an appeals court ruled that the Texas bar did not prove that she engaged in misconduct or fraud….” [Emphasis mine: Barry M.]

However, some very chilling news from the UK WRT to the Gender Stasis’ efforts to thwart and destroy all opposition to their criminal insanity.
‘UK Physiotherapist Leaders Announce Goal To “Eradicate” Critics Of Gender Ideology From The Profession’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-physiotherapist-leaders-announce-goal-eradicate-critics-gender-ideology-profession

Yes, their utter criminal insanity:
Here’s the recently-concluded Cass Report (from the UK), which totally dismantles the Gender Stasis’ argument…
“Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician’s Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/lord-lies-pediatricians-take-latest-child-gender-transition-research

Can you (or a species) really have a [not exactly genetic] “culture” without a language to present and define it? [I will grant that perhaps learning by copying is a form of language in the sense that I am asking. You do something in response to the observation of another’s behavior or action, not based on inherited tendencies to perform a specific behavior.]