Repurposing Some Racist Jokes

Posted on 17 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

I am not saying for one minute that all racist jokes should be repurposed. I don’t think that it’s even possible for some jokes. The ones that I’m talking about are the straight up insults. The ones that have nothing to do with actual differences in peoples or even stereotypes of said peoples.

The first inkling that something could be done started with someone I know bemoaning the loss of culture with the onset of political correctness. I know for sure that this person knew a boatload of racist jokes that were even then no longer tolerated by society. My first instinct was ‘tough, deal with this loss and don’t come crying to me’. But many years later I realized that the straight up insult jokes could easily be repurposed.

But wait, you might say, insult jokes mean someone has to still be the butt of the joke. That’s right. Having spent some time doing political cartoons, the choice of the new butt of the jokes was easy for me. How about ‘the leader’?

So now we can ask, “What’s the difference between Stephen Harper and a pail of excrement?” If someone were to answer “The pail!” we would have no choice but to agree.

Or maybe for over the internet when everyone is not sure who everyone else’s leader is (Stephen Harper is Canada’s prime minister), we can just straight up say ‘the leader’.

“A plane is flying over the Atlantic but unfortunately the fuel is leaking and it can’t make it to shore with all aboard. On board are a French man, an American, a Canadian and the Canadian leader. Suddenly the Frenchman goes to the door and says “I do this for my country!” and jumps out the door.

“The others are relieved temporarily but with some recalculation they figure the plane is still too heavy. So the American (perhaps inspired by the French man) goes to the door and says “I do this for my country!” and jumps out.

“Recalculation says that one more person needs to jump to lighten the load. So the Canadian says “I do this for my country!” and pushes out the Canadian leader.”

Now some may question my timing, especially in the United States, because the leader of that country is black, so it might look like I’m trying to sully his name with insult humour that was formerly only associated with racists.

But Barack Obama is half white. In fact he is part of an unbroken string of white men that have ruled the United States since George Washington.

That’s right. We might eventually be in for “the first black president part II”. Just saying. It’s still a victory to get someone of mixed race into the highest offices of power.

Hate my repurposing of jokes? Approve of making ‘the leader’ the butt of jokes? Discuss.

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The Longest Street in the World

Posted on 15 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

When I was very young, a kid really, the city of Toronto had a bit of an inferiority complex. It was only the second biggest city in Canada and didn’t have as many things to draw people from far away. In fact it was world class in only one way that I knew about – it had the billing of containing the longest street in the world, it’s main street, Yonge Street.

Now I grew up a 100 kilometres away so I didn’t really know Toronto all that well as a kid. So I took this as a straight fact and never challenged anything about this record. And in fact, others didn’t either and for some years the billing of longest street in the world was contained in the Guinness book of World Records.

But Toronto grew from this one thing of note. Toronto built the CN Tower which was for many years the largest free standing structure in the world. This put Toronto on the world stage. It also gave Toronto an iconic skyline as seen from Lake Ontario.

Then a decade and a half later Toronto became home to the first retractable roof stadium, the Sky Dome. I refuse to use it’s modern name because the stadium was sold to a telecommunications behemoth for a price that I think should only give the company naming rights – not the whole stadium.

And Toronto got rid of its ‘second city’ title. An English rights backlash in French speaking Montreal made many people move from that larger city to Toronto. So Toronto eventually surpassed Montreal and to this very day is the largest city in Canada.

I even lived in Toronto for some years. Enough to know that streets are longer east to west in the official city of Toronto than the north and south of Yonge Street. Yonge St. continues through suburbs. It’s built up for many kilometres north of the city.

Suspecting a fake recently, I looked up how long the supposed longest street in the world is and found it is 1 896 kilometres. The build up north of Toronto is only a tiny fraction of that length. So the road becomes a between towns highway. Yes for 1 896 kilometres. Yet my Webster’s New World Dictionary defines a street as: a public road in a city or town, esp. a paved one.

So now I see that to get a World’s Record all one has to do is play fast and loose with official definitions. There are other word names for roads we can use. Kitchener-Waterloo’s (the city I live in) Conestoga Parkway could now be called the world’s biggest Crescent. Another Ontario highway, Highway 6 in the Bruce Peninsula could be called the world’s biggest Cul-de-sac . Some Quebec highway could be called the longest Rue in the world.

The rest of the country likes to take digs at Toronto. This time I feel it’s deserved. Perhaps we can rename the Trans Canada Highway into Trans Canada Street. It would be a much longer street than Yonge Street. And the best part? It doesn’t go near Toronto.

Nice lie you tried to spread to the world, Toronto. But it’s time to let this one go.

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Two Thoughts II

Posted on 12 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

I’m sick to death with governmental misdirection in the recession.

In order to trumpet job creation, government leaders sometimes fail to mention that some jobs created are part time. They love to give the stat of how many total jobs they’ve created.

And, in Canada at least, many temporary employments were started in the construction industry. This was because it was decided to help employment by building infrastructure. So the one or two year jobs created are not differentiated from private sector jobs. It’s now quite well known that you can’t expect to work for an employer your whole life. Still 20 years is not out of line to expect from private sector jobs. Still the government equates the 20 year job with the one or two year construction gig.

And gig, I think, is the ultimate goal of government. As the son of country musicians I know that my dad would go looking for jobs every once in a while. Each playing date – lasting only so many hours – he called a job. So be suspicious next recession when the government talks about creating more jobs than the nation has people. They’re just gigs that are a few hours long.

In winter, the best hand covering is a mitten. However many of the more vain of us, or the more practical, who want to use their fingers in winter, use gloves.

The base of the hand has enough warmth to keep the whole hand warm in a mitten. In gloves, the base of the hand is separate, and the fingers cool much faster. The pinkies are the first to cool.

So what I’ve done with gloves is retracted my pinkies from the pinkie fingers of the gloves. There, my pinkies are rewarmed by the base of the hand.

So my hands are straight except for the curled up pinkie fingers. Now correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this the opposite of curling up your fingers to grab a dainty cup while leaving your pinkie to remain straight.

Isn’t this dainty cup holding thing seen as being a bit effeminate? So wouldn’t that mean that what I do in my gloves is super masculine? Take that all you people in nicer climates. I may freeze this time of year but I am more masculine.

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Mmmm War

Posted on 10 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

I’m still on my Amundsen kick. This time it’s the fascination with the way he made Antarctic expeditions more efficient by using sled dogs to pull the supplies and as the supplies were used, ate some of the sled dogs who no longer had sleds to pull.

Perhaps we could make another aspect of society more efficient. That’s right, I’m talking about war. Those with weak stomachs, do not continue reading this post.

Let’s say you’re a commander along the front lines. Those under your command have come at you with two problems. One said “The P.O.W.’s won’t talk.” The other warned, “Our supply lines have been cut.”

Perhaps both problems can be solved with – you guessed it – cannibalism. You now have food for your troops and a scary fate for those who refuse to talk.

Perhaps this efficient new way to war would cause more post traumatic stress. But then again the horrible ‘smell of charred flesh’ might become a positive instead of a negative. Perhaps it now becomes the signal of a soon to come meal.

But what about those pitched battles where there are more dead bodies than can be consumed? Well supply lines can work two ways. Why can’t the front feed the homeland? “Help the war effort and eat meat” could be a slogan.

So there you have it, it took 99 posts for this site to digress to rationalizing cannibalism. Who had 99 in the pool?

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A Dog’s Life and Lies We Tell Ourselves

Posted on 8 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

In the news recently was a sled dog “cull”. It happened in B.C. after the Vancouver Olympics. There was supposed to be a boom in business for sled dog adventures after the Olympics, but of course there was none. So 100 sled dogs were shot or stabbed and then buried.

It’s quite a gruesome story so I hesitate to link to one of the news articles. Here’s an abbreviated article that doesn’t get into details.

My last post was partly about the Amundsen expedition which successfully reached the South Pole. I found out the gruesome fact that one of the reasons for its success is that in order to have fewer supplies to pull, they ‘efficiently’ killed some of the sled dogs and ate them.

And of course there are stories about dogs being eaten in China. Apparently this is true and other Asian neighbours of China also eat dogs. As well Amundsen quite possibly got the idea of sledding with and eating dogs from Eskimos. These most northerly of people will eat dogs if necessary for survival.

So what does this say, besides the idea that a dog’s life is generally considered to be of low value?

With modern western ethics, I’m thinking that the cull of dogs is the least immoral of the three stories. Amundsen ate dogs that had served him. But Amundsen had the excuse of survival being at stake. The Asians that eat dogs largely live comfortable lives and could easily switch to more conventional meat animals.

So I’m of the mind that eating dogs is worse than just killing them.

But what do we tell ourselves about our usual meat animals?

We say that using all of the animal makes the death worthwhile. In other words it is more respectful to eat a cow after killing it. It is even more respectful to skin it and use it’s hide as leather. It is most respectful to use all its parts and not waste a thing.

Huh? It looks like the general morality of our culture reaches a contradiction. How long can we hide behind the “that’s a cow” and “that’s a dog” hypocrisy of our nice modern western ethics toward animals.

As well, there is the “fur is murder” tactics of some fringe groups, members of which might use leather. Maybe they’re thinking that at least they used the whole cow. Yet they don’t see that seal meat is eaten in parts of Canada, too, making the whole of that animal used.

I think it all comes down to cuteness. Dogs are generally considered cute, cows are not. Harp seals are getting to the status of being cute.

So as a modern day western ethicist, I say never eat the cute. In fact the cute might as well live a full life. Cows, pigs and chickens on the other hand…

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The Amundsen Observatory

Posted on 5 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

We all know what lies at the North Pole. Just mentioning it probably brings up images of a red and white barber pole with a triangular banner bearing the words ‘North Pole’. And of course in the near vicinity lives Santa and his elf settlement at this distant outpost.

Perhaps in 50 plus years, global warming will thin the ice up there enough so water finally pokes through and the whole paradigm up there might need changing.

But there is a more solid pole. Even if you melted the snow and ice of the South Pole, you’d have ground to to firmly plant your feet on. Finally Roald Amundsen’s expedition arrived to the South Pole almost 100 years ago, on December 14, 1911.

All that was reported there was snow and ice. Amundsen left a tent and a letter there in case he never made it back to civilization.

So there isn’t a red and white barber pole saying South Pole on a triangular banner in Antarctica. In those harsh elements I bet the tent and letter are long gone. Perhaps modern man should leave a permanent plaque to this victory in exploration.

Still, a simple plaque is hardly going to increase interest for the South Pole. Perhaps we could make a station there, maybe Amundsen Station.

But I have a better idea. How about a science station, nay an observatory to peer at the heavens. You see, the South Pole has an advantage over every part of the world except the North Pole. And as discussed previously, the North Pole might be underwater in 50 years. So the South Pole is the place.

Below, in the foreground, is a picture of a Dobsonian mounted telescope (thank you KW Telescope). The mount is what allows the telescope to point anywhere. The Dobsonian mount is free to rotate at its bottom. Just above the keypad thing is the other rotator. This rotator allows the telescope to move from horizontal to pointing straight up and every position in between. With these two pivots, the telescope can point anywhere at all in the sky.

All the other telescopes in the background use the more complex German Equatorial Mount. It’s more complex and involves counterweights. Such mounts are way more bulky and usually have smaller actual telescopes. So why use equatorial mounts?

A simple motor that makes the telescope turn 360 degrees in one day can be set up on such a telescope mount. You need this to counter the Earth’s rotation which moves the stars. It takes two motors to set something similar up on a Dobsonian. And the motors have to be adjustable and complexly programmed to follow a star.

This happens everywhere – except the South Pole. At the South Pole a Dobsonian mounted telescope can be powered by one motor that turns the telescope 360 degrees in one day. Perhaps a more massive telescope could be set up at the South Pole because of the simplicity of the Dobsonian mount’s design.

Of course the Amundsen Observatory at the South Pole would be useless half of the year. But during the half of the year it did work, it could run 24 hours.

So when pondering a tribute to Amundsen, at least think of a Dobsonian mounted telescope.

Update March 29, 2014: Apparently the south pole is lousy with telescopes. It’s not just the simple mount but it’s good viewing as well. I don’t know how long these observatories have been down there but I expect for a few years so I was already out of date when I posted this.

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To Colourize or to Decolourize

Posted on 2 February 2011 by Larry Russwurm

I know a number of cinemaphiles. So when colourizing first came about for black and white films, I heard some of the debate. The name that kept on coming up to not colourize was Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho. For some reason, the grittiness of the black and white, it was agreed, helped the film.

But now, thinking of these arguments again, I can’t help but taking on the rebellious attitude of wanting to see Psycho in colour. So, if I ever get the opportunity I would colourize Psycho. But not just with straight forward colour.

Wouldn’t it be fine to see the sky in every shot, instead of being a black night or an ordinary time of day, being the gaudiest oranges, reds and yellows of sunset that nature can come up with? Of course time might seem inconsistent in the movie if it is always sunset. But I say that’s worthwhile if we can get these glorious colours in every shot.

Can you imagine the iridescent colours of tropical butterflies making up the colouring of most of the interiors? You know, colour that would make gay pride flags jealous.

And that much talked about science fiction trope of having green blood – we can have that in the human death scenes. Which would bring about the question ‘Are the victims really aliens that the psycho is unmasking?’ It would add a whole new dimension to the movie.

And finally this movie contains Alfred Hitchcock himself in one of his cameos. Wouldn’t it be fun to give this famous director flaming red lips. A ruddy nose would be nice, too, because I’ve always imagined that Mr. Hitchcock liked to imbibe lots and lots of alcohol.

But wait, wouldn’t it be loads of fun to decolourize more modern movies?

I know your thinking you can just air it over a black and white television and you’re done. But no, I mean taking a much bigger commitment. I want to take the colour out but leaving as much detail as possible. After all we would complain if it didn’t have high definition in whatever form we watch these movies.

Wouldn’t it be fun to see Top Gun in black and white. Or Apocalypse now. Or any of a number of movies that have wonderful colour cinematography. Imagine Avatar with grey aliens. Perhaps the grey of the blue skinned aliens would match the grey of the pinkish humans.

We could also go back to a couple of the first movies that used colour. Now I take the opposite position as earlier – wouldn’t it be better to watch Gone With the Wind without garish sunsets? And who needs to see the colours of all that clothing and Tara?

Or how about decolourizing the Wizard of Oz? Oz is so pretentious by glorying in colour while Kansas stays black and white throughout. Cutting Oz down to size rightfully puts it at the same level as Kansas. And I think that more should be expected of the audience. We should have to take the actors’ word for it that the yellow brick road is yellow and that the emerald city is green.

Aren’t colourizing and decolourizing great when used in the proper way? It’s yet another tool at our disposal to make life and cinema more grand.

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Northern Dominance

Posted on 29 January 2011 by Larry Russwurm

It seems to me that northern nations have more than held their own against southern neighbours. Even when those southern neighbours outnumber their northern cousins. (Full disclosure: I am a Canadian, the second most northern land there is. That’s right I’m a stinking northern latitudinist – you have the freedom to become a southern latitudinist and dispel all my theories and come up with points of your own.)

In the middle ages the Vikings scared much of maritime Europe. As well as being dominant on the sea (they were the first Europeans to discover the Americas) they also made straightforward land invasions like on the isle of Britain. Vikings were seriously outnumbered by their enemies but instead of losing militarily, they seem to have died out on their own.

Northern raiders like the Mongolians were so feared by the Chinese that they built their huge wall to defend against them. In the 1200’s the Mongolians took China (as well as what is now most of Russia). Again a small northern population had a large southern population at its mercy.

Historically, Canada has fended off the Americans and kept its national integrity. In the early years, Canada relied on Britain to keep the Americans at bay. But sneakily, when the British were warring against Napoleon, the Americans decided to strike. With only some British soldiers stationed in Canada, Canada fended off the Americans in the War of 1812. Americans were surprised that there was any fight at all. After a couple years of fighting, nothing was settled and Canadian/American borders were left unchanged. Gradually tensions eased and eventually Canada became a full fledged nation and the border became the world’s longest undefended border.

I also believe that there is not just a northern dominance, there is also a southern one. In other words, I think this dominance flips on the other side of the equator. More southerly South Africa, seems to dominate its less southerly neighbours. But in that case, South Africa has the population advantage. Argentina seems to manage to keep its territory just fine even though less southerly Brazil has a much larger population. It’s not like there is no antagonism between these two countries.

There seems to be a pattern here. What do I make of it? I think that more northerly people don’t mind a warmer climate whereas the less northerly do mind the colder winters. I know I say it about different people in my own country. The lowest temperatures we get where I live, southern Ontario, are -25 degrees Celsius. Whereas the Canadian prairies can get temperatures as low as – 40 degrees. I promise to myself that I’ll never visit in the winter. But those same prairie people don’t mind visiting me in the winter.

As well there are technological changes you have to deal with if the weather gets colder. Those prairie people have cars, too, and at -40 degrees their cars just won’t start. So they heat their engines on those cold days.

And in the biggest war of the last century, colder Russia fended off Nazi Germany which had the resources of most of continental Europe, but which also has a nicer climate. I think the Germans were unprepared for war in a colder climate.

Not only are there technical differences, but warmer countries probably see the cold alone as a hardship. So what happens when you successfully invade a country? You have to hold it. Those German soldiers would have to be stationed in Murmansk and Siberia in order to hold their gains. Not a pleasant long term thing for those Germans.

But things have changed since World War II with south to north immigration. Northern strongholds became so pleasant and nice places to live that people from the south have immigrated to Northern Europe and North America. They have handled the elements as well as any northerner and gradually become technically adept at everything in these lands. I think the north might have lost its edge. Should we northerners be worried? Will those southerners want revenge?

But maybe these newcomers are just part of our new society. Perhaps the north has kept its edge due to the fact we have to keep civilized. Else we won’t survive the winter. Southern places are just that much more forgiving.

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Socialism Puts the Social in Social Democracy

Posted on 26 January 2011 by Larry Russwurm

I keep hearing some of the political discourse from the United States. Apparently socialism is worse than any of the dirty words. I’m surprised the FCC doesn’t bleep the word on network TV.

Did Americans forget they are a Social Democracy? This means that the US is mainly a capitalist state, but it uses socialism to smooth over some of the rough spots of capitalism.

In fact all the developed countries do this. But since the Americans do this slightly less than their developed country brothers and sisters they have convinced themselves in their discourse that socialism is evil.

But Republicans and Democrats are both responsible for the latest advance in socialism. That is they bailed out some banks and other lenders saying that there will be a trickle down effect to every person in the US. This is corporate socialism or corporate welfare. There is no way that every Democrat and Republican didn’t realize this.

In fact, I think that large corporate entities are being treated better than each citizen in the US. Could it be because they give more to lobbyists and political parties?

Damning socialism as they might, Americans have welfare and unemployment insurance. (I know it’s a technicality but we Canadians changed the name of unemployment insurance to “employment insurance” recently – it makes more sense.)

Do Americans want to go back to life without these comforts? Do the banks, and let’s not forget the auto companies, want to lose their status of “too big to fail”? That’s right. If socialism is so horrible, how come these programs almost never get repealed. Want to know why there is so much anger against full medicare? If it ever passes in the United States, it will never be repealed. People never plan to become ill, it’s just something that happens.

And I would like to argue that even before these obvious examples of socialism, America was a social democracy.

Public defenders and public educators could also be considered socialism. Public defenders started as long ago as before World War I in the US but became a right in 1963. Inclusive public schools started at an even much earlier date. These two institutions are certainly other ways to smooth over capitalism’s rough edges. I argue that these are socialism, too.

In fact what about the police and justice system, including judges? Aren’t these another bit of socialism if funded by the taxpayer? But there is no outcry about these institutions. Of course this system might possibly predate capitalism. It certainly predates the democracy of the Greeks.

So enough of the socialism bashing. It can be used wisely to smooth over the problems of capitalism. I might also add that it can help to smooth over the rough edges of just being human.

But I’m probably barking at a brick wall. Americans will probably call me a liberal and think this somehow dismisses me. In my country, Canada, liberal is not necessarily a badge of dishonour.

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Traiters

Posted on 22 January 2011 by Larry Russwurm

Update: Here is a third influence of date of birth effecting people. In the article kids with birthdates later in the year are more likely to be on drugs for ADHD. And now that I’ve seen this, I bet back in the past these more immature kids were likely to be disciplined more.

Update the Second: A fourth example of date of  birth effecting people is the likelihood of being a CEO.

Perhaps you were aware of the recent kerfuffle in the news about astrological signs being about a month away from how astrologers know the zodiac is ordered. And that Ophiuchus was a constellation that over thousands of years had entered the zodiac. It wasn’t really news, it was just a new generation becoming aware of this discrepancy. The way I got told it is that astrologers had deemed 5000 years ago as being a ‘perfect’ time and those positions of the constellations in the zodiac became cemented as the ‘perfect zodiac’ which is supposed to be valid for any time in the future or past. So according to astrology nothing changes with this info.

The kerfuffle led to this site getting hundreds of search hits for my post ‘I Believe in Astrology‘. So despite that post poopooing much of astrology, I saw the power of the hold astrology has on the public. The largest amount of searches I got were “Ophiuchus traits”. I don’t know Ophiuchus’ traits, just that he is holding a snake represented by the constellation Serpens (Caput) and Serpens (Cauda) which I gather are the two ends of the snake. If you wish to find the traits of the serpent bearer, I suggest you look him up in Greek mythology. Astrology hasn’t taken Ophiuchus seriously so there aren’t official traits for people born under his sign.

So maybe there is interest in taking my position in ‘I Believe in Astrology’ further. I know more than I did at the time of that post. I wish to present my ideas to like minded individuals whom I will call traiters.

Traiter is my name for those people that believe the traits of signs in astrology actually exist. A traiter does not necessarily believe one thing else that astrology pushes.

Why the name traiter? It seems unnecessarily harsh because of its similarity to the word traitors. That is deliberate. You see in my case, I’m an amateur astronomer and some in the astronomy community think everything in astrology is hokum and that by pushing any part of it, I seem like a traitor to them. Similarly those who believe in the traits of the astrological signs but don’t swallow the rest of astrology may be considered to be traitors by the mainstream astrology community.

I have some backup, that the month of birth may actually lead to differences amongst different people. I’ve made mention of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers in my earlier blog post, which states that the majority of professional hockey players were born near the start of the year. The reason Gladwell gives is that hockey players starting at 4 or 5 years of age have a large advantage if they are 6 months older than their competitors. So these born early players make it into the ‘elite’ programs where they get more training than the other players. So the initial extra skill becomes amplified.

The other instance that I’m now aware date of birth makes a difference is for illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It has been found that the chance of getting these illnesses is greater if you were born in winter or early spring. It’s a small increase of only 5-8% but it has shown up in over 250 studies. There are various theories of why, including seasonal infectious agents. However, adding to the complication on traiter theories, it occurs in the winter and early spring of the southern hemisphere, 6 months removed from the north. So any traits may differ between hemispheres.

I’m thinking of doing a survey of astrological books and find which traits a consensus has developed among the astrological community. Hopefully I can find enough sources in Canada to keep the survey Canadian. If not I will move on to North American tomes and include the US.

I wish to keep the survey amongst the culturally similar. As should be obvious from my two reasons for a traiter viewpoint. The second reason gave the difference between northern and southern hemispheres. The first reason is based on the western Gregorian calendar. China and other countries use different calendars and might divide the population differently.

So maybe in concert with a traiter more on the astrology end of things,I would like to release a book with the traiter philosophy. You could easily just pick up those birth sign astrology books and not have to read mine. I’m hoping that the survey and consensus finding will be intriguing enough to hook some people.

If not, I intend to use half of the writer’s net profit to funnel into a study of birth date and common traits. At this point it would be better to involve a psychologist or social scientist who has experience with human experiments and might have ideas on how to eliminate the unreliable narrator in such a survey. As well, the psychologist/social scientist could give a heads up if any similar surveys had been tried.

Most interesting to me in such a study would be the Capricorn A’s and B’s. Or in other words, those born at the start of the calendar year and those at the end. I expect to see a difference because of our culture’s reliance on the calendar. If the seasonal interpretation that seems more common in mainstream astrology were more correct, they would be the same.

Things that also could be tested would be the earth, air and water rankings of the signs. Or the difference if any between the symbol’s generally accepted traits and the actual traits found by the survey. I think astrologers and non astrologers alike would like to see such a survey completed.

The findings could be published in another book. Or in other media. That I think would put some real evidence behind the traiter point of view. The southern hemisphere and the differently calendared could do their own surveys.

I’ve hardly done a complete survey of medicine, there might be more illness that depends on date of birth or season. Or there might be a whole host of other areas that the calendar year effects on date of birth. There might be other reasons for date of birth to effect the traits of people. If you know of any please leave a comment.

Maybe you like the philosophy of traiters but you don’t like the name. Perhaps we could use something close to astrology or astronomy. You know, to confuse even those who aren’t confused by the two close names. How about astrolomy?

Whatever, you can leave a comment if you need to be heard on this subject.

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