"I came on this site because of a writer I admire and because it seemed to be keen to have other writers, not just opinators, bloviators and help gurus of various orthodoxies."
If possible, please identity the writer you are referring to.
I think your suggestions re substack are well-taken
I think I have angered the folks that run this site. My questions are generally not answered.
A writer on substack once answered some of my questions, but I met him on a thread that has been retired by substack. I don't recall his screen name and I don't know how to get in touch with him.
And this brings me to another point, which, unfortunately, is not what your thread is about. And that point is the tenuousness and frailty of human connectedness on the internet. For example, I noted that because of one arguably minor, ministerial act by someone who works at substack, namely the retiring of an old thread, I can no longer contact someone with whom I had once corresponded.
And that prompts this realization: Given the frailty of all human connectedness on the internet, the talk of community, as in a substack community or a facebook community etc., is just pure and unadulterated malarky.
This is cute. Thanks. G.
In your fourth paragraph, you write,
"I came on this site because of a writer I admire and because it seemed to be keen to have other writers, not just opinators, bloviators and help gurus of various orthodoxies."
If possible, please identity the writer you are referring to.
I think your suggestions re substack are well-taken
I think I have angered the folks that run this site. My questions are generally not answered.
A writer on substack once answered some of my questions, but I met him on a thread that has been retired by substack. I don't recall his screen name and I don't know how to get in touch with him.
And this brings me to another point, which, unfortunately, is not what your thread is about. And that point is the tenuousness and frailty of human connectedness on the internet. For example, I noted that because of one arguably minor, ministerial act by someone who works at substack, namely the retiring of an old thread, I can no longer contact someone with whom I had once corresponded.
And that prompts this realization: Given the frailty of all human connectedness on the internet, the talk of community, as in a substack community or a facebook community etc., is just pure and unadulterated malarky.
We live in a sick and lonely world.