Removing control from human beings

... incrementally (with the emphasis on "mental")

Being pushed into doing things we do not wish to, in fact being rushed into it, sign here, is not on my list of "to dos", no way, Jose. Cattle herding us in other words.

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Comments thread

Each of the sites your humble blogger writes at has its own system of commenting … half a decade ago, I understood that a “forum” is not the way to get any for’arder in increasing knowledge for various reasons.

One is the ideological idiocy of half the population, as exemplified in Minneapolis of late but there’s an added second factor … trolling, paid or unpaid. It’s designed to get in the way, to obstruct learning.

Plus there’s my own mindset … I’m there to learn, not to lecture. Yes, as blogger, I have to choose topics … many suggest themselves, so do readers … but it’s my job to dig a bit, find out, present.

I then rely on readers, e.g. Mark Matis, James Wilson, to add to the story, maybe even put an angle I might not have seen. The model is not “adversarial camps”, as in assemblies and in academia, but more that we’re in a room with a table … and on that table we put what we’ve found.

Readers then can decide for themselves which make sense now, which later, which never at all. The thing which will destroy that meeting of minds is someone with an agenda, e.g. the Wokerati, the Fabian, the chip on the shoulder Hostile.

Therefore, at our other sites, Wokery and Globopsychosis do not find a platform. Any new commenter is welcome to add sane takes on what’s happening but if he/she is clearly a woke nutter … bye bye.

Even within our own “80% in the same direction folk”, there is that 20% which two people will disagree on. For example, this morning, on X, there’s a raped girl from grooming gang days who does not like Rupert Lowe as a leader … maybe as he’s a strong, “toxic male”, who knows?

Thing is, reader … it’s going to happen, innit? There’s no way to make everything idyllic but there are some moves, as mentioned above, which at least make commenting and replying possible.