Apropos of various comments I have seen all over the place.

[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

1. Look. I do realise that long and challenging pieces of writing are a bit intimidating, due to the pull on time, and the fact that we have all been accustomed to much shorter (and in my opinion, rather less substance-filled) writings and opinions for a time. Lord knows that I myself don't read long pieces all in one go. But I do believe that there are some ideas that cannot be synthesized into 300-500 word pieces, with snark threaded throughout to make the intellectual medicine go down easier. Sometimes, in order to fully undersatnd your position and the steps that need to be taken, the marrow of the issues need to be extracted. And that leads to long essays. Sorry people, but citizenship is not easy. Never was. So buck up, break up the essays into chunks, exorcise that ridiculous expression "tl;dr" from your vocabularly, and exercise your brain a bit. Actually, exercise it a lot. Last I heard, we only use 10% of our brains anyway. That leaves 90% that need to be taken out into the sun.

2. Oy idiot! WTH do you mean you are not interested in the history and lets just focus on today? The history is how we got into our current predicament, dummy! If you don't know how this shit happened to you, how the hell do you think that you can craft an effective strategy for getting your ass OUT of the mess?! Besides, dumpling, ever heard of the saying "Those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it"? Sit your ass down and use your head, dammit!

Comments

[asim.livejournal.com]

I really don't know you, and I fear that if I critique your work and statements here, it will fall on fallow ground. So I'm going to ask if you mind if I do so, before chatting it up.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

No problem.

Hope you don't mind me adding my two cents

[isitis.livejournal.com]

feel free to throw them back. :-)

I don't think it's a problem with the long content. Heck, I don't read all of it but I do read what's interesting and powerful to me. The only thing that bothers me (this is my OCD coming out) is my need to cut quote everything but that's my thing and well you may hate doing cuts in LJ. The thing I'm confuse about is why do they keep coming on your site if they don't like how it's done?

I can't even comment on Number 2 for fear my head will explode or a need to maim stoopid people. See this is why we are getting screwed now! Cause people don't learn from their past!

Re: Hope you don't mind me adding my two cents

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

I value both your cents:) The declarations weren't actually about me. They were in response to comments left on several of the articles that I have been highlighting recently, especially that last Paul Rosenberg article. The "tl; dr " way of thought has been bothering me ever since I came unto LJ, and the last straw was an article on Daily Kos in response to Obama's Patriotism speech, which took him to task for his mischaracterising and repetition of rightwing slurs against the American left. SO many people started complaining that the 60's were over and that everyone needed to shut up about it that I got highly annoyed, especially since it occured to me that these same dum-dums don't the see the irony in them saying that and then screaming about how the Constitution is being shredded and shit about what the founders of the United States might have thought about our situation in the next breath.

Re: Hope you don't mind me adding my two cents

[isitis.livejournal.com]

right... so basically using history when it suits them... how american...