Which individual?
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 11:05 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: my humble analysis of the blind democracy list
Miriam:
Age may be contributing to the outlook of an individual.
Richard
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On Oct 11, 2019, at 8:17 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not sure how many people actually read this sadly depleted list.
A few of us keep on posting, most likely to fill our own needs for
self expression. Once in a great while, Bob Hachey, Penny, or Frank
posts a message. Richard comments briefly, upon occasion. But we have
two people who basically dominate the list. Roger is our
instructor-in-chief. He consistently instructs us in logic, and keeps
our thoughts and language usage within, what he believes to be,
appropriate boundaries. Carl is our loving and gentle preacher. It is
not traditional religion that he preaches, but a gentle version of
what Roger is attempting to teach. Roger enjoys debate. Carl never
argues and is always kind and thoughtful. It's kind of like, "good
cop, bad cop". Roger and I post articles. Carl is supportive by always
commenting on our articles, although I'm not sure that he gets time to
read many of them. It's a kindness because of he didn't comment,
neither of us would know if anyone bothered to read what we post. Most
people aren't interested or they just get turned off by the occasional
arguments. Few people are left from the original list and our recent
visitors appear to have left. Evan left because, as he told me, he
just doesn't like to spend time arguing. I come across some articles
that seem really interesting and that are very different from what is
available from mainstream websites, and I can't resist posting them in
case there's some lurker who would benefit from reading the article
and who wouldn't know that it existed, if I didn't post it. But I do
wonder, sometimes Unlike our two white male leaders, who pretend that
they're not leading, I don't particularly enjoy teaching or preaching.
I'm also a rebellious soul so I have issues with having my wayward
thoughts and emotions, corrected. But I suspect that most people feel
that way. Most people like to express their thoughts and feelings and
they can usually tolerate a gentle disagreement. Carl and I, for
example, will never agree about how to define class. But it doesn't
matter. We just occasionally disagree. I've learned from listening to
podcasts on which I hear younger people talk, and also from articles,
that the battles and insults on twitter are a whole lot worse than most of
the really angry interchanges we've had on this list. I guess that's one of
the down sides of technology.
Miriam
