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thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

>Dude, you watched a lot of TV.

What else am I going to do on a rainy day? :-)

>I watched several more My Little Pony episodes. It's a silly show, but 
>it's making me happy. I kind of get why it was so huge.

A friend of mine came out as a Brony after watching it with his daughter.

>I also watched another ST:TNG. It was the one where Data has a vision 
>and decides to find its meaning. It's okay overall. I object to Picard's 
>speech, though, in which he claims that Data is a culture of one and 
>also claims that dream symbols are uninfluenced by culture.
>
>There is no such thing as a culture of one. Culture must be shared by 
>definition. Furthermore, it's not true that Data is unique -- he has a 
>brother, does he not? At a minimum, they're a culture of two. Further, 
>both are the creations of Dr. Soong and partook of the culture of the 
>colony where they were made, which itself was derived from Earth 
>culture.

Yeah, that whole thing is just Clodhopper stupid.

>Also, dreams absolutely totally *do* use symbols from broader culture. 
>Picard is so confidently wrong. 

A Jungian interpretation of dreams.