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I think we all end up as mud sooner or later. Some of us head for the mud sooner, some later.
Do I mean that? Probably.
I don't think I can ban people from this thread. At one time I asked SI Dave to destroy it, and the rest of my threads, but he wouldn't. I'm sorry he didn't. I think SI can be a very sick place- and I mean in a group way- not individually. I think people get sucked in to vortexes here, along with their alises, and sometimes I don't think they know they have their head underwater. I always worry, every post I make, if I am one of those posters trapped in some underwater current, not knowing that I'm there. But thinking about it brings clarity. I wish everyone would stop, and take a good long deep breath, and then just not post if they are too pissed off.
On the other hand, I met my best friend on SI, and some other wonderful wonderful people- so you take the good and the bad, and you wonder, is it worth it? I don't know
There are things right now that are very clear to me, though- it's not attractive to call people names like "moron" or moron, or moron (yeah, there are other words, too), and it's not a good thing to dogpile- no matter how "right" you think you are, because a dogpile just doesn't look right, and then no matter how right your original post was, you are wrong for doing the dogpile thing. I think the only things I am willing to act on are rudeness, and group behavior that I perceive as unhealthy (and which, of course, is a special pet peeve of mine, and as such is a totally subjective bugaboo for me).
I hope that doesn't make you too unhappy. I don't like to make people unhappy. But as I told someone else recently, I think it is important to hang on to what I think my course should be. |
