Being an unregistered and uncertified Curmudgeon, I have seen, Forrest Gump like , the changes in society and our political culture this march of technology has wrought.
Going from a day when the number of memo copies was based on how many carbons you could convince a secretary (that is what they were called back then) to jam in her Selectric (Answer 4, 5 if you got a good one) to todays ubiquitous sharing of instant video globally has been a wonder, but also a loss of things like:
Reflection, Proofreading, Time to consider secondary effects, Questions like “Why are two hundred people on the copy list?”.
As in war (See Civil War, USA) when the weaponry outstrips the tactics and practice, our communications technology is beyond our ability to deploy it well except to slaughter our opponents.
I used to bemoan the GOP when they were always the ones being machine gunned down by the other side attacking with claims and falsehoods at a high rate of fire.
I do believe POTUS understand offensive communications, in all senses of the concept. It may be the thing that keeps him afloat. I also see the GOP still recommending immediate surrender when dirty info is fired.
I just sit here, wondering how quaint this will all look when the next generation of communication technology becomes widespread. I am pretty sure I will not want to do a direct neural link to anything coming from either of the parties we have today.
GOP still recommending immediate surrender
That’s why the party is going under for the third time. What shall we name the new party?
“Forewarned”?
BTW, TKC, I’ve been permanently banned at site X.
Wear it as a badge of distinction. If you find yourself approaching total strangers , grabbing them and yelling “I was somebody online”, well, try and avoid that.
Now that you can stop wasting time there, post some travel and truck pics here, along with opinions and gags. Good to see you here.
Thanks, TKC. Promise to post here much more. My truck is bigger than yours, too.
Dang. That must have been a conversation.
My membership was about up, anyway. The site is now a haven for secular, empty-headed libertarian Never-Trump snowflakes. My comments were in objection to the passive-aggressive language of Rachel Lu and Gary Robbins. The details don’t really matter. TKC, I was never “somebody” there except for my fellow Happy Warriors. The moderators hated me, and we’re laying in ambush, I think partly because I could skillfully annoy bad people but skirt the CoC. Humor is outlawed there; one will get it in the head if you’re not PC enough. That’s the unstated codicil to the CoC. Meh.
So, yes! A badge of honor. I’ll be posting here a lot more and getting to know this crew better, even Dime.
My God.
I have to wonder just why the bad place still allows comments, because that only enables badthink.
Shrug. I didn’t get banned- but now I think that’s a sort of puerile failure.
I should have been less restrained, even though one reason why I stuck around so long was because I wanted to learn to be more polite on the internet, having spent most of my time arguing with deranged leftists.
When I see people like TW, or MJBubba, or Mike LaRouche, getting suspended or banned I can only take it as a sign that politeness doesn’t count.
What matters is willingness to remain on the gop plantation, carefully munching on whatever fodder they dump into the feed-bin.
Sad.
You are so right, Xennady. Being polite isn’t enough now. One must worship the “conservative” narrative, a cousin to the progressive narrative. Kissing cousins, even.
TW,
Well, I never was interested in joining a cult. I distinctly remember, early on, thinking that the bad place was intended to be the right-wing version of Huffpo. That is, it would have had features like diaries allowing people to build their own followings and such, as popular commenters attracted traffic to their writings.
Nope. It was another spot where the gopes could demand the proles genuflect before them.
Shrug. Enough about the bad place. Here, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how many of my favorites make appearances, regular or not.
For what it’s worth I encourage you and everyone else to comment more, even though and even if no one comments back.
That’s one thing that bothers me about the internet- I often see well-written, informative commentary that generates no response. That’s sad, because I can only imagine people want feedback, or at least evidence that someone is reading what they wrote.
Shrug, again. Bottom line- I encourage you and others to comment, even if I don’t comment back.