Sat in a fancy Vancouver restaurant. It was okay. The tables were close together and the table beside us had a couple and their 20 year old son. They were Canadians living in silicon valley. They were very very proud of that and talked about how well
Paid silicon valley was. They were in BC hoping to buy some Real Estate as they couldn’t afford San Jose. They were shocked at Vancouver prices. I said ‘if you can’t afford to live where you work you aren’t paid well. You are underpaid’. This was confusing to them. This led us into how wonderful it was there, despite housing prices as they were so diverse. They went on and on. Their son said ‘you are really diverse, that is true. Very diverse. But you are all the same.’ His parents objected and mentioned all the surface characteristics of people around them. The son said ‘you sound the same, you talk the same, you believe the same things’. I said ‘we are the same here. The leftist crowd is very diverse. Except in thinking. All the surface characteristics are super diverse. But beliefs? Not diverse whatsoever.’ I then pointed out everyone around us at the upscale eatery. Asian of every sort. Gay straight couples singles Hispanic white black South Asians, etc. ‘everywhere is diverse. That is the world we live in. It isn’t hard to be diverse. It would be hard not to be. But all this is surface. Diversity of thought is the only real diversity.’ Meanwhile my wife is kicking me under the table. They were disgruntled. Whereas I was solidly gruntled.
Sat in a fancy Vancouver restaurant. It was okay. The tables were close together and the table beside us had a couple and their 20 year old son. They were Canadians living in silicon valley. They were very very proud of that and talked about how well
Paid silicon valley was. They were in BC hoping to buy some Real Estate as they couldn’t afford San Jose. They were shocked at Vancouver prices. I said ‘if you can’t afford to live where you work you aren’t paid well. You are underpaid’. This was confusing to them. This led us into how wonderful it was there, despite housing prices as they were so diverse. They went on and on. Their son said ‘you are really diverse, that is true. Very diverse. But you are all the same.’ His parents objected and mentioned all the surface characteristics of people around them. The son said ‘you sound the same, you talk the same, you believe the same things’. I said ‘we are the same here. The leftist crowd is very diverse. Except in thinking. All the surface characteristics are super diverse. But beliefs? Not diverse whatsoever.’ I then pointed out everyone around us at the upscale eatery. Asian of every sort. Gay straight couples singles Hispanic white black South Asians, etc. ‘everywhere is diverse. That is the world we live in. It isn’t hard to be diverse. It would be hard not to be. But all this is surface. Diversity of thought is the only real diversity.’ Meanwhile my wife is kicking me under the table. They were disgruntled. Whereas I was solidly gruntled.
That is so amazing. The diverse getting schooled that diversity is the inverse. Well done Mystic. I get the hand on my knee from my husband :)
How strange?
- Luc
incredible my friend.