WOW! Watching that hearing has finally driven you over the edge. I agree 100 percent. You’ve been restrained recently, but now the gloves are off. The treatment that Matt Taibbi, a real, and honest, journalist had to endure by that so-called congresswoman was . . . I don’t even know how to characterize it, appalling, embarrassing, sad. This is who is in Congress?! We’ve reached the bottom, well, I think we have farther to fall and it’s going to get uglier.
“If this post costs me readers....” maybe. I hope not, because your content is refreshingly substantial, as opposed to superficial; and refreshingly relevant, as opposed to a destructive distraction that adds to any person’s own self-satiating illusion of being informed.
I generally look for the writers who both 1) have nothing left to lose, because they’re the ones who not only have the information I’m desperately seeking (in 2020/2021 we all had to become amateur detectives just to stay alive); also, having nothing left to lose makes it easier to willingly admit to an error when better information comes up. (“Nothing left to lose” includes ego.)
And 2) I seek those who do not share my worldview in some area. Politically, you and I see pretty well eye-to-eye, though you’re smarter about it than I am (thank God). My reasoning for seeking other worldviews, though, is this: if what I “know” to this point has either gotten me into whatever trouble I find myself in, or didn’t keep me from getting into trouble other people put me in, then I therefore need thoughts different than what I generate from inside myself, or from what makes sense to me upon first consideration, to change my own trajectory. “Echo chambers” are, therefore self-defeating. So how unfortunate, if you lose any readers because they didn’t like your opinion about the ability to express all our own opinions, of all things. Not just how unfortunate--how stupid. Our lives now depend on hearing other points of view more than they ever did before, and it’s going to get worse, again, very soon.
You didn’t say you were quitting or changing, but I still beg you to keep it up. It’s perfect as it is for completing the job it needs to do. I’m sharing your post on my social media, because it’s so validating to read what so very many of us feel constantly burning away in our bones right now. My friends feel the same.
WOW! Watching that hearing has finally driven you over the edge. I agree 100 percent. You’ve been restrained recently, but now the gloves are off. The treatment that Matt Taibbi, a real, and honest, journalist had to endure by that so-called congresswoman was . . . I don’t even know how to characterize it, appalling, embarrassing, sad. This is who is in Congress?! We’ve reached the bottom, well, I think we have farther to fall and it’s going to get uglier.
“If this post costs me readers....” maybe. I hope not, because your content is refreshingly substantial, as opposed to superficial; and refreshingly relevant, as opposed to a destructive distraction that adds to any person’s own self-satiating illusion of being informed.
I generally look for the writers who both 1) have nothing left to lose, because they’re the ones who not only have the information I’m desperately seeking (in 2020/2021 we all had to become amateur detectives just to stay alive); also, having nothing left to lose makes it easier to willingly admit to an error when better information comes up. (“Nothing left to lose” includes ego.)
And 2) I seek those who do not share my worldview in some area. Politically, you and I see pretty well eye-to-eye, though you’re smarter about it than I am (thank God). My reasoning for seeking other worldviews, though, is this: if what I “know” to this point has either gotten me into whatever trouble I find myself in, or didn’t keep me from getting into trouble other people put me in, then I therefore need thoughts different than what I generate from inside myself, or from what makes sense to me upon first consideration, to change my own trajectory. “Echo chambers” are, therefore self-defeating. So how unfortunate, if you lose any readers because they didn’t like your opinion about the ability to express all our own opinions, of all things. Not just how unfortunate--how stupid. Our lives now depend on hearing other points of view more than they ever did before, and it’s going to get worse, again, very soon.
You didn’t say you were quitting or changing, but I still beg you to keep it up. It’s perfect as it is for completing the job it needs to do. I’m sharing your post on my social media, because it’s so validating to read what so very many of us feel constantly burning away in our bones right now. My friends feel the same.