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Who Gives a damn? I do. [
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Date: December 11, 2006 10:16PM
Well, I've noticed for some time that unpopular points of view (not so much unsavory imagery, and not so much by users) but mainly by one or two moderators has been tantamount to censorship here. That seriously damages the precept of both sites. In a world where (increasingly) only money can buy any sort of self-expression this site had something unique going for it that I think seems to be on the cusp of disappearing.
It now finally is no secret that George W. Bush (half of us knew it all along...) is a moron puppet backed by shrewd (but definitely not the same thing as wise or even intelligent) bunch of corrupt business people who duped a whole bunch of other easily fooled (by the same old "incestuous amplification" propaganda techniques), mostly undereducated, but otherwise well meaning people into voting for them. (Mostly from the southern US. They must've all failed history and slept through the Watergate hearings....) and don't understand that we separated Church and Government to keep the Church of England out of our business and politics out of our Churches. (Billy Graham agrees with me on this, btw.) It's the values that our elected officials should carry into their chambers, not the liturgical dogma, (which itself, written by human beings is rife with self-contradiction and self delusion, and is the defacto reason for the humanities to exist in the first place. This is not to say that they supplant religon. Rather, they BALANCE it.) This equilibrium has been badly damaged-it seems to me at least.
Now we (the US) are reaping the results of the institutional rewarding of patent stupidity (faith makes no demands for "facts", by definition) with only the most recent elections showing any scintilla of common sense. When Democrats do something stupid of their own making, I'm equally vitriolic, btw....
I'd hoped that our friends in Australia weren't going to copy our "Titanic" complete with the hole.....
Unpopular opinions have at least as much inherent value (and are as deserving of public strutiny) as any 'safe" opinion. Probably more. It's my belief that this "X" thing you've thought up is about to give your website the intellectual equivalent of a frontal labotomy.
The big problem in the US is the only time the news tells the truth is when it's labelled "fake news" on Cable TV Entertainment shows and the real news is obliterated by the twin chopping blocks of "RATINGS" (do I like the news I'm hearing? What I like must be the truth!) and its partner in crime, the shareholders of the for profit corporations that run "Newscorp" (Not just that one, but that's one of them) media outlets.
The Truth doesn't have too much of a chance in the US anymore. And apprarently not here too much either.
It's future may well be much fluffier and insubstantial. We shall all be the poorer for it.
Alas.....
RIP Plus613.........
Sincerest Regards,
Nobody in Particular