It is time. My opus
Self | 1-28-2013 | melas
Posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:10:56 PM by Melas
While the title says it all, I thought a goodbye was in order.
While I've been a FReeper for well over a decade, I must declare that it is time to part ways. While I have the greatest respect for a great many of you, the days where I can in good conscience remain silent about the issues that set me apart from the rest of FReeperdom have past. For clarity, or perhaps catharsis, I'm not entirely certain which, I'll lay them out on the table an call the ZOT™ down upon myself.
The racism: I just can't handle it anymore. FR has become increasingly racist since President Obama took office, and enforcement has dropped. Now, not a single crime can be reported with an "amish" comment, and I've yet to see a post express embarrassment or shame when lo and behold sometimes the perpetrators turned out to be lily white.
Homosexuality: FR is on the wrong side of history on this one, and I'll just leave it at that.
Mostly though, it's the hate. More and more posts reference violent solutions to political disagreements. Some subtly couched, others make no pretense. I wouldn't be surprised at all if I read in the morning paper that a FReeper murdered a federal bureaucrat or a federal judge.
I've learned so much, from so many of you, and for that I'm grateful. I genuinely and truly wish all of you well, and sincerely hope you all live out the rest of your lives in happiness.
Melas
Yes. That was it. I think that is what disturbs me more...not the truth, but being inhibited or prohibited from speaking the truth.
The truth of this (or any situation) might be bad enough, but it is far worse to realize that societal pressure has been brought to bear to the point where the truth cannot be spoken.
And even MORE disturbing is to realize that people are taking it on themselves, buying into it, policing themselves to the point they BELIEVE the non-truth, or the necessity for not recognizing the truth. It is a form of double-think.
Seeing a situation with your eyes. Reality. Then co-existing inside your own brain with no contradiction, the acceptance that what your eyes told you is not the truth, but something very different and contradictory.
It is Orwellian.
She missed several of mine.