(04-20-2018 10:40 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  

(04-20-2018 05:14 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Who’s worse, Miko, NoDak, or DavidSt?

DavidSt seems sincere so I’ve never been bothered by his posts. I don’t agree with most of NoDak’s predictions but he shares a lot of factual information and occasionally real news which I appreciate.

I’m not a big fan of Miko’s cons. I found them occasionally entertaining during the Big 12 expansion derby, but he has less raw material to work with now and his shtick is wearing a little thin.

I concur with your analysis with one exception. Miko's satire is really more about expressing his displeasure with today's priorities which he finds shallow and wholly misguided. His threads are a like a trumpet pitcher with a Rorschach ink blot to interpret. They attract the very ones he intends to lampoon, and then he lets them expose themselves with their assumptions.

How this thread devolved into talking about posters I don't know. But to do so is really a violation of board policy. All three of the posters being ridiculed, or defended, are unique individuals. And most of those doing the ridiculing tend to find security in group approval, while most of those doing the defending tend to be self reliant persons who value individualism. It's precisely the outcome a classic Miko thread would seek, but this time it was more of an unintended serendipity that the group thinkers used it to attack people.

As a sociologist this kind of activity is usually a harbinger for the loss of civil liberties. And at no point in my long life have I seen as much "group think security" coming out of Americans than I do right now. Part of that is from the polarization of the political system and part of it is the byproduct of the social isolationism of our new tech world. People feel good when they get likes so loving and hating the things the group loves and hates is more important than valuing the uniqueness of anything or anyone. The world hasn't seen anything like it since........Mao's Red Guard, the Young Pioneers, and the Hitler Youth.

Thread closed. Kudos to you HawaiiMongoose! I'm proud somebody stood up to the bullying. Next time I see this there will be some bans handed out with no warning.