Certainly, the fact that I have not made a post to this blog for 3 months belies some busy days, especially with all the rain lately, but more often I am asking myself what is the point? Especially with social media raging so inanely.
Yeah, occasionally I go on Facebook, but it feels like group-think and I inherently don't share its values. Despite Google's desperate desire and best efforts to connect all my accounts, devices and computers, I do my best to route friend/relative traffic to my Hotmail account, political and solicitation of all sort (companies) to Yahoo and editors and professional conversations to Gmail.
Every time I open a Yahoo message from Friends of the Earth, the Sanders campaign, or Credo, they want me to sign a petition and forward encouragement to do likewise, to all my friends and relatives. Right. Sure. Count on it. My friends can figure out what to think/sign for themselves. They wouldn't be my friends if they couldn't. I am rather lucky in relatives on that score.
The kind of group-think underway in the wake of the Brexit, all things Trump, events in Dallas, Baton Rouge and Minnesota is just what organizers are after. They want everybody to sign on and endorse their idea or movement before considering the situation. Sometimes on the basis of a tweet.
A functioning democracy requires if not reflection, at least a little thought. This is the reverse: wild, roaring group hysteria in the internet coliseum
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