Let’s be frank, my name is peon. We are all equal except there is the Powers to Be. It’s a book by the recently departed David Halberstam. A great writer that will be missed. At the SDMB who are the Powers that Be? Let me have your opinion so that I can bow and then politely stay out of their way.
Nah, I think I would drive the psychiatrist crazy. Actually, in my teens I had this weird insight. As we get older, don’t you ever get the feeling that this is a crazy world?
What about the possibility of going crazy as a rational response to life? Then that would imply that crazy people are rational and rational people are crazy because they remain rational.
I think what we have here - pardon me, *heah *- is a faiiilyur to co’municate. Our pal **pchaos **is one of that group who don’t quite get what a forum is all about, especially an intellectually upscale and firmly moderated one. The endless sandboxes full of cat poop and discarded diapers - comment streams on bloggity things, if I wasn’t clear - have promoted the idea that any spew is equal to any other spew, and have brought in some fringes of the online spectrum (young and very naive, and older and still naive). The rulez there say that anyone can post any thing that falls out of their brain, considered or not, and are supposed to be allowed to, no matter how inflammatory, extreme, naive or just plain stupid it might be.
When that attitude crosses with an old-school forum, some of the subjects burn their fingers and learn, but a regrettable number keep trying to piss upwind and can’t quite figure out why everyone getting splattered is annoyed with them. They’re just being suppressed, picked on, hammered down by the forum jackboots, etc. They learn, they go away in a sulk, or they get banned.
Which makes wading in those sandboxes all the harder, since there’s no one there who can clue the idiots.
Give me a break, at my last count there are now approximately three threads pitting me. There must be a maximum number of threads that can be running at one time. Let’s be fair guys.
The Moderators.
The Aministrators.
Posters that hate jerks.
Posters that have an I.Q. over 75.
Posters that hate being lied to.
Posters that hate bigotry from ignorant religionists.
Posters that understand how a dictionary works.
Me.