I've decided that I'm going to be putting the "journal' element of this blog elsewhere. It's going to be nothing but clips, links and photos from here on out.
See, Vox, like much of the internet, has a problem: it's not user friendly enough. I can already guess your second guesses on that, but let me tell you what I'm looking for: I like my family and friends. I want to be able to share things with them. Since not everyone has an account with Vox or blogger, or any one platform, I can't just set up the blog to be seen by only them, I've got to make it public, so my Mom can just type in the web page and read or look. At the same, I have a lot of thoughts. I like to write them down. It's not like I'm trying to make big editorial statements or anything, I'm simply trying to work out stuff for myself. Unfortunately, many members of the public make it their business to intrude upon that. They want to sell me something ( usually porn), or convince me of their opinion, or something else that's intrusive. I don't swear often, but these people are assholes. So, all I want is a way to filter out assholes, and Vox, Blogger, Myspace, Facebook, you name it, none of them have such a simple feature. Instead, I caneither make it private or make it public. That's it. There's no middle ground, like there is in real life. I can't do "invitation only". I cannot open and close a door. There is no way, yet, to have a virtual doorman.
So, before you either gloat; "Yay, another evil liberal silenced" or berate "You're giving in, and letting them win" or whatever, please consider if that'd be apropriate behaviour if you were at my door? If you barged into my living room, and started giving me grief for what I was saying to my TV when the news is on, would I be wrong to ask the police to escort you out? Since I cannot do that, I'm leaving my living room, here. I've never once considered this as something more. I have no platform, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. But, your behaviour has hounded me off of my own little patch. It's been proven to me that you cannot be trusted, because I already tried limiting the comments, until now, I had to shut them down. So to hell with it. Nobody has "silenced' me, because I wasn't speaking out loud to begin with. Yes,I am going to continue thinking exactly the way that I do. Yes, I'm going to vote, and more. I'm every bit as active as I've ever been. As for the other end, what exactly did the assholes win? They don't get to use my little patch, I'm keeping it. I'll probably still be posting stuff, just none of my thoughts.
One final thought, though, just a parting shot: The older I get, the more I experience, the more I think I was right when, as a teenager, I thought to myself that while socialism is the only just way to run an economy, most people aren't interested in justice, and many people aren't interested in freedom, either. What they really want, to the exclusion of their humanity, is their whims. That's not the majority is like. The majority just wants peace and quiet. They don't care about justice, but tranquility. So, when that percentage that's sociopathic: that wants society to cater to their whims, not serve the social interest, when this phalanx of nutjobs breaks the peace often enough, people will cave into them just to maintain peace. Those people who do want justice, along with liberty, freedom (NOT the same thing) peace and prosperity are concerned enough with society that they won't break the peace. In the end, love for everyone is a losing proposition. The only way to justice, I'm not yet willing to go: revolution. See, I'm like the majority, I like peace. I'm not willing to give up everything to see justice. So, I'll campaign for some little bits of justice, and little bits of freedom, but I know that I won't see real justice in my lifetime. I'm willing to accept that. And here's a song:
See Ya!
