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=== Have you blocked people on Facebook? === | |||
I have blocked people who insulted me personally, or who insulted my friends in malice to no good purpose, or who showed sufficient lack of humanity during riots. | |||
I broke off a potentially lucrative business deal and ended a friendship with a decent human being in real life, calling him a "callous asshole" and ordering him to "begone", because he spoke insensitively at the most terrible of moments in Minneapolis history. | |||
I then phoned his brother and explained that I did this as "a memorial to my pain." | |||
Can't betray a memorial. It's not a memorial if one betrays the memory. | |||
But apart from that, I like my wall to be Many Voices. | |||
=== The Batman has no clothes === | |||
People are capable of incredible feats of self-deception, both individually and collectively ignoring evidence of their senses. "The emperor has no clothes." | |||
Similarly, we all *know* in our heart of hearts that Bruce Wayne is really Batman. | |||
Yet we don't spill the beans in public. That would be like going to a Toys for Tots orphanage and telling kids "There Is No Santa Claus" in order to trick the Mensa refugees into revealing themselves. That's a Lex Luthor move, and we Heroes don't play that game. | |||
One moment — I have just become aware that the high-stakes Baccarat player opposite me is not actually "James Bond", but a nameless Bulgarian assassin wearing a Mission Impossible face mask. Please excuse me as I must seduce the dealer before she turns up the next card. | |||
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/concellation/permalink/245608023153336/?comment_id=245760676471404 Comment] @ Facebook | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
Latest revision as of 19:06, 2 August 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday August 1, 2020.
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Diary
Have you blocked people on Facebook?
I have blocked people who insulted me personally, or who insulted my friends in malice to no good purpose, or who showed sufficient lack of humanity during riots.
I broke off a potentially lucrative business deal and ended a friendship with a decent human being in real life, calling him a "callous asshole" and ordering him to "begone", because he spoke insensitively at the most terrible of moments in Minneapolis history.
I then phoned his brother and explained that I did this as "a memorial to my pain."
Can't betray a memorial. It's not a memorial if one betrays the memory.
But apart from that, I like my wall to be Many Voices.
The Batman has no clothes
People are capable of incredible feats of self-deception, both individually and collectively ignoring evidence of their senses. "The emperor has no clothes."
Similarly, we all *know* in our heart of hearts that Bruce Wayne is really Batman.
Yet we don't spill the beans in public. That would be like going to a Toys for Tots orphanage and telling kids "There Is No Santa Claus" in order to trick the Mensa refugees into revealing themselves. That's a Lex Luthor move, and we Heroes don't play that game.
One moment — I have just become aware that the high-stakes Baccarat player opposite me is not actually "James Bond", but a nameless Bulgarian assassin wearing a Mission Impossible face mask. Please excuse me as I must seduce the dealer before she turns up the next card.
- Comment @ Facebook