The Watching of ASAH

[Celebration]

6. just one more thing you can chalk up to fear

People want control, which means they want simple explanations (meaning they can control things), so they actually fear the mysterious, the unexplained, etc. When anyone brings up something like this, it actually hits a nerve of some kind. The best way to silence us(they think) is to lash out.

I'm not into debating either. I might be a little too far out for a younger version of myself. But I wouldn't have feared it. I actually want to immerse myself in mystery and embrace it. People might fear me for this, and lash out.

I don't consciously avoid other areas of DU (except religion, lol). I go to Photography mostly, but also sometimes Health, Science, and Economics. I'm not a Lounge type person. Most GD topics I just don't have that much to add to the discussion........... Most of the nastiness of DU I learn from being on juries.

I only engaged in one long protracted argument on DU2. That was in Health where someone was actually (believe it or not!) advocating censorship of health information on the internet. He would have legislated any bad information about vaccines off the internet! I was so appalled that I changed my signature line and my avatar to a JFK quotation about free speech, and left it that way for months. That, of course was one of the big skeptics who wanted to legislate speech on the internet. I was astonished and kind of afraid for the country that anyone would advocate something like that. Later I found some cartoon that actually depicted a shift in the way people view free speech now. I had not realized there was such a shift. I'm tempted to go back to DU2 and find that long discussion, and also that cartoon.