I Am Still Alive

And trying to stay that way.

I am older, wiser and far more experienced than I was 7 years ago, which is how long it has been since my last post.

In some ways I do not recognize the person who used to write here. In other ways the person who used to write here was the only real me that existed.

Even though the Internet has grown into a cesspool of aggression, hostility, toxicity and unsafe spaces – I miss this venue. I miss this venue and I miss the connections that I used to have with the people here. I believe, despite the cesspool that the Internet is, that some sanity and actual analysis and high minded discussion is desperately needed. Especially since there is so much pure propaganda and people are so horribly confused. No one, it seems, really knows what to believe. It is evident that misinformation has proved a greater threat than no information. (Wasn’t it quaint when we used to expose the want-to-be authoritarianism of Dubya?)

So, I am going to post this. I am going to see if anyone replies. I am going to see if we can get active again. I am going to see if this benign, un-linked post is attacked by the trolls.

We used to call ourselves the reality based community – let’s bring some reality back to these ones and zeros.