The problem is that almost everyone participating in social media has an emotional age of 12. I've been foolishly disappointed to see how true that is.
There's no one I previously admired or thought had at least a little common sense and decency, before 2016, who proved to be worthy of any regard. The concept of "public intellectual" need…
The problem is that almost everyone participating in social media has an emotional age of 12. I've been foolishly disappointed to see how true that is.
There's no one I previously admired or thought had at least a little common sense and decency, before 2016, who proved to be worthy of any regard. The concept of "public intellectual" needs to be trash-binned. Even a lot of people purportedly "on our side" re the Covidiocies show themselves foolish in so many things.
I understand that Substack is now an important source of income for those who've been resisting the considerable destruction of all standards of scientific research and useful public policy, and they've paid terrible costs in loss of jobs, reputations, friendships, future employment etc. and so the throttling of links and limiting of reach have very serious consequences. Everyone does need to pay rent or mortgages or property taxes and to secure the futures of their children or ensure the wellbeing of aged parents etc. etc. etc.
But this is also a necessary reminder that we cannot rely on any service vulnerable to the whims and pressures upon owners and that governments can squeeze in a gazillion ways. We've got to be much smarter and much more capable of evading what they try to do to us.
Some very good points, some a little to broad brushed negative, e.g. "There's no one I previously admired or thought had at least a little common sense and decency, before 2016, who proved to be worthy of any regard."
Really? No one at all? El Gato Malo? Alex Berenson?
I have no problem with folks getting paid on Substack or any platform that doesn't censor.
But why pay Blue Check for "protection"?
Disclaimer: To me Twitter is largely a massive waste of time, too often a form of public masturbation, by nature catering to folks with extremely limited attention spans, who gravitate to snippy one-liners, simplistic and crude memes etc. And I admit to getting sucked into it. A harmful addiction I'm ending.
The breadcrumb trail from Twitter led me to Substack--and started because I Googled something about Berenson and found his Twitter feed. Reading him led me to el gato malo and Eugyppius, and reading comments threads led me to the others I then subscribed to.
I don't scorn any useful resource for finding stuff, but Twitter easily becomes a massive time-waster because one can't easily resist responding.
Now I've got more than enough to read coming into my inbox daily and I had to remind myself that in a big world full of words, one can't hope to ever read all of them, and I'll have to resign myself to dying not fully educated on every possible topic of interest.
The problem is that almost everyone participating in social media has an emotional age of 12. I've been foolishly disappointed to see how true that is.
There's no one I previously admired or thought had at least a little common sense and decency, before 2016, who proved to be worthy of any regard. The concept of "public intellectual" needs to be trash-binned. Even a lot of people purportedly "on our side" re the Covidiocies show themselves foolish in so many things.
I understand that Substack is now an important source of income for those who've been resisting the considerable destruction of all standards of scientific research and useful public policy, and they've paid terrible costs in loss of jobs, reputations, friendships, future employment etc. and so the throttling of links and limiting of reach have very serious consequences. Everyone does need to pay rent or mortgages or property taxes and to secure the futures of their children or ensure the wellbeing of aged parents etc. etc. etc.
But this is also a necessary reminder that we cannot rely on any service vulnerable to the whims and pressures upon owners and that governments can squeeze in a gazillion ways. We've got to be much smarter and much more capable of evading what they try to do to us.
Some very good points, some a little to broad brushed negative, e.g. "There's no one I previously admired or thought had at least a little common sense and decency, before 2016, who proved to be worthy of any regard."
Really? No one at all? El Gato Malo? Alex Berenson?
I have no problem with folks getting paid on Substack or any platform that doesn't censor.
But why pay Blue Check for "protection"?
Disclaimer: To me Twitter is largely a massive waste of time, too often a form of public masturbation, by nature catering to folks with extremely limited attention spans, who gravitate to snippy one-liners, simplistic and crude memes etc. And I admit to getting sucked into it. A harmful addiction I'm ending.
Note my date there.
The breadcrumb trail from Twitter led me to Substack--and started because I Googled something about Berenson and found his Twitter feed. Reading him led me to el gato malo and Eugyppius, and reading comments threads led me to the others I then subscribed to.
I don't scorn any useful resource for finding stuff, but Twitter easily becomes a massive time-waster because one can't easily resist responding.
Now I've got more than enough to read coming into my inbox daily and I had to remind myself that in a big world full of words, one can't hope to ever read all of them, and I'll have to resign myself to dying not fully educated on every possible topic of interest.
I can't resist responding here either, can I?
That relentless need to connect, even to strangers in Etherland.