The Daily Blog Open Mic – 17th January 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
Fresh rant – warning fragrant!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/myhometown/audio/2018922276/my-hometown-hamilton
Example of common thinking today. The entitled, expect to get whatever is wanted, have it provided for you, sit in judgment because somewhere else is supposed to be better. We are so used to being spectators looking on television, being stimulated by someone else, having sex so often that it’s a bore the ordinary human ways so we go in for half-throttling for added kicks. As in Don’t Cry for me Argentina [replace with country or place of your choice]: ‘I chose freedom, running around trying everything new, But nothing impressed me at all – I never expected it to’… Karen Carpenter knew it – https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_n8mq7sedP4
Don’t many of our problems come from not taking pleasure in what we have, and limiting our wants. Savouring what we choose to get or take and not peevishly demanding more? It is strange that kids can’t be bothered doing odd jobs for pocket money now. They want to be paid full rate for anything they do, and younger ones don’t want to take on newspaper delivery etc because it is not as interesting as sitting playing games on a device.
We are truly being left to our own devices and soon won’t know how to do anything physical and practical for ourselves. Back to servitude in permanent social classes like in the first industrial age, now the no-industry age! Being a ‘slow-top’ as the term was in 1800s? Back to the simple-minded motivated by prejudices and superstitions. We don’t take note of facts and findings – just reading about David Bellamy who was here in the 1980’s and listened to, written about and then ignored. Feckless lot we are, bent on getting money and what it can buy for ourselves. What Me Worry, says Alfred E. Neuman. Mad!