Zander Brosky

Maritime ex-pat doing some left coast living with my incredible wife in the lower mainland of BC. Politics, green bldgs, math, science and funny stuff.

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@MikePMoffatt Right now, is the US doing the equivalent of making a mortgage payment with a credit card?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A dad introduces his son to the video game he grew up playing.

His reaction is priceless.

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@alanfryermedia @globeandmail @TorontoStar Conservatives have been sticking it to one another well enough they don’t need help from the Globe/Star. Pretty ineffective opposition.

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@BoredElonMusk You don't even need to put the whole data in the ocean though. If they're built near the ocean, you can put the condensers in the seawater, and reject heat to the ocean. The office building I work in does this. https://t.co/acYh2LUk3w

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@TerribleMaps We've got too many lakes! Manitoba has 90,000 o_0! Lakes with no name. https://t.co/NCrtUdgQbX

[p @huskiesplswin]

this is still my favorite twitter moment of all time

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@cselley Vancouver had "car-free-day" street parties when I lived there. No dunk tanks though :(

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

This dude’s insights are so good!

[Sciohn Fhanne @sciohn_fhanne]

The question lies not in the Zhangs and Patels who arrive today, then, but in their sons and daughters, their grandsons and granddaughters, and so on.

Will they ultimately be seen by the Canadian demographic organism writ large as part of the greater "us?" And this is without accounting for the inter-cultural relationships of the kind I've already seen at scales well beyond obscurity. Anglo-Mestizo-ism as the new "ethnic Canadian?"

Because let me tell you that, for all of Laurentianism's deficiencies, and for all our (in my view, at least somewhat questionable) enclaves à la Brampton and Markham, successive generations born and raised here do, in fact, meld into a broader organism. Different ancestries, different cuisines, different roots, yes, but the same schools, the same sports, and broadly similar formative rites of passage.

The sons and daughters of Zhangs and Patels are, by and large, already approaching reasonable (if still imperfect) parity in being regarded as part of the greater body of "us."

The problem, of course, is that Laurentianism never asks what the sum of that "us" is actually for. And so we arrive at co-existence without co-ascent. The rites of passage exist, but they're not remotely demanding enough.

"Come from all corners of the world, live in peace, harmonize as you wish, and leave it at that."

That's not remotely good enough. And so it should not surprise us that it is precisely these sons and daughters of our Zhangs and Patels, the best and brightest of them, that tend to become our highest-profile brain-drainers.

I suspect that the real crux of the "ties that bind" question will ultimately resemble the philosophical challenge that confronted the integration of non-Italic Romans, non-Turkic Ottomans, and so many other civilizational projects before them.

What those shared metaphysical, symbolic, even esoteric "We The North" rituals might be, or what form they might eventually take, none of us can know today.

But can such a binding civic myth be cultivated within a liberal-democratic order, without some combination of conquest, subjection, or coercion?

That's a genuinely difficult nut to crack.

It's also one of the questions I am most interested in exploring.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky."

Khalil Gibran

Ralph Emerson art

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Types of clouds

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@UnitedCanucks26 @MaudeBarlow @kevinolearytv It’s pretty ironic you’re using an AI summary to point out how bad AI is.

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

This is next level genius.

[Retro Anime @retro_anime]

In 1997, Murphy's Irish Stout released an anime cyberpunk commercial.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

[Alice Marianne @_Emmet_Emmet]

Paul Klee
Moonrise | 1925

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@TerribleMaps I chuckled to myself.

[Zander Brosky @Zbrosky]

@sciohn_fhanne @Cappy_Nate @SpencerFernando @zandertoo @elsom25 @AnalogueUSB @patrickkeenanme @AlexanderKline Our spaceport in Nova Scotia just got a big boost! Now we need to do more. https://t.co/iUGvhRZL5j