To the question:
“Did you ever love your camp more than the truth?”
How shall they plead?
Category Archives: Activism
The Way Forward or the Way Out?
Now I’ve got to tell you right up front
That you’re going to need to sit down
While you hear me out.
There are standing up talks
And there are sitting down talks
And this is one of the latter kind.
So let’s get started here:
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Probably one of the hardest parts about being me
Is what I see as the great abyss of silence in this world
About the things that Jack thinks are worthy of great amazement
Or curiosity
Or laughter
Or sadness
Or remorse
Or study
Or conviction
Or praise
Or gratitude
Or action
Or love
Or even of conflict between fellows.
No One Cares
To Fight the Losing Battle
America could not stand
To fight the losing battle
In time of war.
Is There Any Evil So Great?
If I Could Get You to Care Enough
If I could get you to care enough
About these matters
Of world-class importance—
If I could get you to
Dream your own dreams about them,
Rather than merely to lean on mine—
Bolstering the Notion
It seems there’s generally always
Somebody trying to take a new stab
At bolstering the notion that
People who don’t do anything substantial
To stop evil can themselves be good.
Censorship in the Name of Avoiding Social Media “Silos”
I’m listening to a podcast discussion in which both sides are pretty clearly sympathetic to a certain mega social media platform and its attempts to regulate free speech in the name of keeping the members from “getting into silos”. The idea of the discussion is that you have to step in and regulate things, or else, the participants in the community will be drawn only to the camps that gather around their own favorite points of view. And so the hunt is on, it seems, for the most effective and efficient ways to do this—apparently, to inject an alternate point of view into discussions on the platform.
And is anything wrong with this?
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