Musing For Today
Whatever else one may have to say about the internet, one positive about it is the way one can find minds who are together, insightful, and have sound perspectives on various issues and subjects.
Somehow, face-to-face, everyone I run into is either a stranger, someone I "only do business with", or has some kind of authority. Bonding of any kind, even intellectually, is out of the question.
The only concerns others around me seem to have are of a "scripted" jejune juvenility vein
...for example: back in the '70s and '80s all anyone could talk about was "getting drunk" (or "getting high"), "getting laid", and "partying"
...these days it's a lot of "crusader" fare: "ending domestic violence", "ending discrimination", "ending sexual harassment", "anger management", "curing cancer", "putting an end to alcohol and drug addiction", "putting an end to 'hate speech' and 'verbal abuse'", and the like.
Same type of insipid collectivist superficiality, different narrative.
The internet may have its fair share of iniquities, but often it can also be the only refuge for those seeking out some modicum of intelligent adult dialogue.
And I, for one, need something---anything---to counteract the inane dreck that comprises all the current social (and legal) narratives being heaped on all of us come lately.
Whatever else one may have to say about the internet, one positive about it is the way one can find minds who are together, insightful, and have sound perspectives on various issues and subjects.
Somehow, face-to-face, everyone I run into is either a stranger, someone I "only do business with", or has some kind of authority. Bonding of any kind, even intellectually, is out of the question.
The only concerns others around me seem to have are of a "scripted" jejune juvenility vein
...for example: back in the '70s and '80s all anyone could talk about was "getting drunk" (or "getting high"), "getting laid", and "partying"
...these days it's a lot of "crusader" fare: "ending domestic violence", "ending discrimination", "ending sexual harassment", "anger management", "curing cancer", "putting an end to alcohol and drug addiction", "putting an end to 'hate speech' and 'verbal abuse'", and the like.
Same type of insipid collectivist superficiality, different narrative.
The internet may have its fair share of iniquities, but often it can also be the only refuge for those seeking out some modicum of intelligent adult dialogue.
And I, for one, need something---anything---to counteract the inane dreck that comprises all the current social (and legal) narratives being heaped on all of us come lately.
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