Has pathological greed destroyed the Occident?

My favorite-Marcel Marceau’s cover of Simon And Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence”! :smiley:

Everyone watch AMBIANCÉ, then we can discuss it.

did we get whooshed by a spammer?

Goddamnit. It ruins the joke if I don’t post the link.

In fact the Occident is as clever as ever, and superfluous attention as yours more than makes up for decadent strife masked as ignorance. Lugubrious pronouncements widen the chasm of understanding that much more, feeding angry existentialistic Tao sifu’s misrepresentation of enlightenment, to which the sparrow would blindly sing songs about. Nihilism was a gift, a present, as is the present, the waves that cleans the beach do so at the behest of the world’s left.

Consider then, what is worth considering? That aside, the following video may be NSFW if you are not in a cosmic star nursery, so ingrained are we to mundane spectacles that clear elucidation cannot snap us from our doldrums. Worth watching? Must man wend through the extrasolar to the specific? What choice do we have?

Chinese kith may take opposing dichotomies, as the Yellow river begets and takes life, the waters are ever churning. Such gimcrack cannot light ere the day, withhold your judgement lest conversational bric-a-brac be unsatifactory. After all, they make all of our iPods.

No fooling the glomax, the intensity is inherent. Be not unaware or else inevitability follows. Sam is as strong as ever, as virile as ever, a million parents follows a million million children, each tendril suffused with Juffo-Wup, growing turgid, let violent action ensue

wow that was the best bit of pseudo philosophical hornswoggle ive heard in years

And probably makes just as much sense and has as much logic as the op and his videos

Color me confused by the OP and his join date.

I will also weigh in that I considered “Occidental/Oriental” at best dated with shadings of racism. Doing a quick check online as to how racist the term actually is, however, it seems that it might not be widely considered derogatory amongst the US Asian community.

LA Times OpEd on “Oriental”

If anyone’s really interested, a poll might be started…

It’s ridiculous that people find the terms racist. But when has that stopped the crowd looking to be perpetually outraged?

And I’m glad that that author agrees

Not that I feel I need the permission of someone from an ‘in-group’ to hold an opinion.

No need to focus on the antiquated, but not particularly racist, Orient/Occident terms. We have “taken to the Chinese dry cleaners” offered up in the OP, which is mild, but still a nod to an offensive stereotype.

“Idiot American” – the most apt phrase every syntaxed, in any language¹.
(¹World Linguistics Organisation)

Never has insecurity-manifested-through-arrogance met ignorance in a more perfect storm. You’re your own “Antichrist”. Yet, instead of looking into the mirror, you ineffectually prostrate to the heavens and then stick your heads back into the sand when invariably met with only tinnitus.

“The Devil” did not even have to try.

NB: Fret not – in this link, there are only two(2) words that require one’s reading skills to be exercised: https://i.imgur.com/uddd3Ug.gif

Yawn.

Don’t wanna click on that. Could you just use your words and tell us what it says? Oh never mind. That was weak.

That’s a weird article. It has quotes from Grace Meng, Jeff Yang, and Erika Lee. And then concludes with, “The well-intentioned meddlers will create trouble for exactly the population they want to defend.” Because despite the only people complaining about this term being actual Asians, this is somehow white people’s fault.

Of course, it’s not actually that hard to figure out the author’s angle. She dismisses the negative reaction to the term as, “In other words it makes Asians sound exotic because it was in circulation at a time when exoticizing stereotypes were prevalent.” And then she signs her piece as, “Jayne Tsuchiyama is a doctor of acupuncture and Oriental medicine.” In other words, she’s a woo peddler, banking on precisely that aura of a “ancient wisdom from the Orient” to gull the suckers into letting her stick pins in their chakras.

I mean, not to say that an Asian person can’t legitimately not care about being called “Oriental,” I’m just not seeing this article as being written by someone who is particularly insightful or entirely trustworthy in their arguments.

As to the term itself, it seems to me that it’s a lot like calling someone a “negro.” The term isn’t inherently insulting, but it’s so old-fashioned and out-of-date, it’s hard not to suspect that there’s some ulterior motive in using that term, versus something more contemporary. 'Course, most of the time, it’s just someone who thinks long, slightly archaic words will make them look smart. (It doesn’t.) But there is the occasional actual racist out there, throwing the term out like a lure to see if anyone like-minded is in the same pond and paying attention.

“Occidental” means anywhere West of the “Orient”. Tottenham, Chelsea and Crystal Palace to name but a few. But the Orient moved out of Clapton in 1937, so the goalposts have been moved. I hope this has been helpful.

It’s a gif of Spider-Man villain Venom, apparently from a video game, saying “Game over.”

Clearly, all our arguments are now meaningless.

You know…

I’m thinking rant. Go wild.

A note of caution: posting gibberish with an air of superiority is a really poor way to attempt to persuade others to one’s position.

Are we going to hear from this guy again after school starts?

Who can argue with THAT?

Could not have said it better myself. :cool:

Just to clarify: I didn’t say Occident(al) [or Orient(al)] was racist. I live in an area with a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment and I might be a tad oversensitive. I did ask that the OP clarify, but since that will never happen I’m willing to accept octopus’s theory of just going for a big word unnecessarily.