I applaud your decision to define the platform best for you--and will continue to subscribe.
By most reasonable definitions, I'm a "right-ist". Profitability is the only rationale for business. But I respect well-led unions and, as a business owner, am a cheerleader for profit sharing. I also respect "merit" and disrespect the "woke virus".
Altho' I'm unable to distinguish today's use of "right", "far right" and "ultra right"...it seems that being "right" can also be "wrong"...and The Ghost has restricted its messages to those it thinks are not "wrong". But we must recognize that, in narrowing your platform, you've supplanted individual decision-making with third party public perception.
I will look for the "Ghost" view as a voice usually counter to the my fundamental beliefs. However, this notion of ideological sub-division sure isn't new. Playboy was never directed at the female population.
I'll continue to enjoy the repartee between us to ensure I don't slither over into the Nazi column! Best wishes.
Elon Musk is the best source of your answer, Vivian. But here's my interpretation: the "woke virus" is a brain-infecting organism that denies the supremacy of "merit" and advocates for selection based on skin colour and gender. It is long on ideology and short on value.
Sufferers are mostly concentrated in academic, social working, government and union organizations. The primary symptoms are polarization, racism and an intense refusal to entertain any conflicting thought whatsoever. While there is no effective treatment for the woke virus, there is some thought that eviction from X and Facebook has shown occasional relief.
Oh, so it WASN'T about plagiarism; good the know. It was about the Zionist lobby group (she was instantly replaced w a white Jewish male), who are complicit with the genocide of the Palestinians, and DEMANDED she be replaced for showing empathy to BOTH sides of the conflict
Many apologies, ma'am. I did deserve that; I forgot that comments columns ARE social media, and I engaged.
I used to respond to those who use the term "Woke", and now recommend against. It gets an opinion, but no useful citations. I know you've muted me, but I hope to help others. I'll stop.
I did provide a citation - article author Moira Weigel is a professor who did a lot of historical research into the terminology; perhaps others will click.
I wish you luck on the "migrante" (Mossycrop never spell-cheks)
Do you read languages other than English.?
English is used in dozens of countries--even those who don't use it, are in countries with at least one English language daily , (now mainly on-line).
Do you start on early times, that is over the Pacific Date-Line, Sydney time?
Is the 185 characters line common with you?
"But if your goal is to come away from the news informed, critically armed to sort through the noise and understand the world, and not lose your mind, there are better and worse ways to approach navigating the deluge."
Many write using a computer and some sort of text editor, or "word processor" Which have you tried?
Do you miss the Selectric?
Cotton or flannel shirts? Plain or Plaid? Were you a lumberjack at one time.
Where does your wonderful dog sit/lay? Does she bother you for food or break your train of thought?
Are you pencilling notes as you read or does it all go into adjactent files on the computer (which might mean that despite your public photos, you are working an a 200 character wide display)
We enjoy your writing and that it makes the reader curious, (and fact check).
Good for your soul to leave SS, but accomplishes nothing else - a rant, alas, for a blog sometime.
Back to the column, thanks for clarifying that both corporate news and the Internet have failed. That great Invisible Hand should have created newspapers that met a need, and I don't think my needs are idiosyncratic or even rare. There should be a paper that covers what I want covered, a richly as I need it. I get the Vancouver Sun, and much appreciate Dan Fumano and Katie DeRosa on local news, lose trust in the Sun for larger, broader issues. Ultimately their (inter)national political news is still selected and viewpointed by the ghost of Conrad Black, and it's the only big paper.
The Internet promised the "Newspaper of You" - I think there was a specific promise in WIRED in the 90s. Crowdsourcing and recommendations from others who think like me should create it by aggregation. Instead, there's this huge pile of "content", most of it written to deliver slot-machine dopamine bursts in my head with "engagement" through conflict. So I need 948 words from a professional expert to get me started on doing all my own filtration.
SMH at me, 2000-ish, revelling in my NYT and WaPo digital subscriptions, so cheap. I'd stepped up to the Real Journalism! Then they sold the Iraq War, and years later I realized that the "opinion columnists" like Bret Stephens and Henry Olsen aren't hired to inform at all, but to troll the 90% Democrat audience for 9,000 comments per column of "engagement". When Tony Judt busted David Brooks as "knowing nothing", and proving it, no surprise; just professional Democrat-trolling, never journalism.
Facebook and X learned "engagement" from the "papers of record".
So there's nobody you can trust, unless it's a guy telling you to read a lot of eclectic stuff and do your own filters. Which is while I'll stick with Moscrop, wherever his hopeless Diogenes-quest for a virtuous platform leads him.
I applaud your decision to define the platform best for you--and will continue to subscribe.
By most reasonable definitions, I'm a "right-ist". Profitability is the only rationale for business. But I respect well-led unions and, as a business owner, am a cheerleader for profit sharing. I also respect "merit" and disrespect the "woke virus".
Altho' I'm unable to distinguish today's use of "right", "far right" and "ultra right"...it seems that being "right" can also be "wrong"...and The Ghost has restricted its messages to those it thinks are not "wrong". But we must recognize that, in narrowing your platform, you've supplanted individual decision-making with third party public perception.
I will look for the "Ghost" view as a voice usually counter to the my fundamental beliefs. However, this notion of ideological sub-division sure isn't new. Playboy was never directed at the female population.
I'll continue to enjoy the repartee between us to ensure I don't slither over into the Nazi column! Best wishes.
Tom
Elon Musk is the best source of your answer, Vivian. But here's my interpretation: the "woke virus" is a brain-infecting organism that denies the supremacy of "merit" and advocates for selection based on skin colour and gender. It is long on ideology and short on value.
Sufferers are mostly concentrated in academic, social working, government and union organizations. The primary symptoms are polarization, racism and an intense refusal to entertain any conflicting thought whatsoever. While there is no effective treatment for the woke virus, there is some thought that eviction from X and Facebook has shown occasional relief.
Elon Musk 🤣🤣🤣. Woke means empathy for others; a concept you will NEVER be able to grasp
Claudine Gay grasped it...and she lost the most prestigious university job in the world. Ditto, U Penn. And many more "dittos" to come.
Oh, so it WASN'T about plagiarism; good the know. It was about the Zionist lobby group (she was instantly replaced w a white Jewish male), who are complicit with the genocide of the Palestinians, and DEMANDED she be replaced for showing empathy to BOTH sides of the conflict
Ma'am, you deserved that.
It's already been answered with research and journalism, just under its previous name. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump
Many apologies, ma'am. I did deserve that; I forgot that comments columns ARE social media, and I engaged.
I used to respond to those who use the term "Woke", and now recommend against. It gets an opinion, but no useful citations. I know you've muted me, but I hope to help others. I'll stop.
I did provide a citation - article author Moira Weigel is a professor who did a lot of historical research into the terminology; perhaps others will click.
Correct. "Woke" is still dominant. However, the "pushback" is becoming serious and effective.
Dr. Tom, Specialist: the Woke Virus
I wish you luck on the "migrante" (Mossycrop never spell-cheks)
Do you read languages other than English.?
English is used in dozens of countries--even those who don't use it, are in countries with at least one English language daily , (now mainly on-line).
Do you start on early times, that is over the Pacific Date-Line, Sydney time?
Is the 185 characters line common with you?
"But if your goal is to come away from the news informed, critically armed to sort through the noise and understand the world, and not lose your mind, there are better and worse ways to approach navigating the deluge."
Many write using a computer and some sort of text editor, or "word processor" Which have you tried?
Do you miss the Selectric?
Cotton or flannel shirts? Plain or Plaid? Were you a lumberjack at one time.
Where does your wonderful dog sit/lay? Does she bother you for food or break your train of thought?
Are you pencilling notes as you read or does it all go into adjactent files on the computer (which might mean that despite your public photos, you are working an a 200 character wide display)
We enjoy your writing and that it makes the reader curious, (and fact check).
Good for your soul to leave SS, but accomplishes nothing else - a rant, alas, for a blog sometime.
Back to the column, thanks for clarifying that both corporate news and the Internet have failed. That great Invisible Hand should have created newspapers that met a need, and I don't think my needs are idiosyncratic or even rare. There should be a paper that covers what I want covered, a richly as I need it. I get the Vancouver Sun, and much appreciate Dan Fumano and Katie DeRosa on local news, lose trust in the Sun for larger, broader issues. Ultimately their (inter)national political news is still selected and viewpointed by the ghost of Conrad Black, and it's the only big paper.
The Internet promised the "Newspaper of You" - I think there was a specific promise in WIRED in the 90s. Crowdsourcing and recommendations from others who think like me should create it by aggregation. Instead, there's this huge pile of "content", most of it written to deliver slot-machine dopamine bursts in my head with "engagement" through conflict. So I need 948 words from a professional expert to get me started on doing all my own filtration.
SMH at me, 2000-ish, revelling in my NYT and WaPo digital subscriptions, so cheap. I'd stepped up to the Real Journalism! Then they sold the Iraq War, and years later I realized that the "opinion columnists" like Bret Stephens and Henry Olsen aren't hired to inform at all, but to troll the 90% Democrat audience for 9,000 comments per column of "engagement". When Tony Judt busted David Brooks as "knowing nothing", and proving it, no surprise; just professional Democrat-trolling, never journalism.
Facebook and X learned "engagement" from the "papers of record".
So there's nobody you can trust, unless it's a guy telling you to read a lot of eclectic stuff and do your own filters. Which is while I'll stick with Moscrop, wherever his hopeless Diogenes-quest for a virtuous platform leads him.