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Well, yeah. Leap, I know you are not going to get this, because you *never* get this, but....
Your vision of a perfect future was greeted with initial inquiry and, I confess, not a little skeptism, by myself and others. We asked questions and proposed problems. It became clear fairly quickly that you did not have the toolkit to deal with either. So, the same basic precepts were repeated over and over, as the audience became increasingly frustrated with your failure to respond in any meaningful way to criticism (with the single exception of finally conceding that people could carry shotguns as well as melee weapons, which was very good of you). As cogent objections were ignored completely, complex enquiries that showed a degree of respect in their depth were batted away with a single, rude line, usually asking if people would rather be childlike, perhaps followed by a string of question and exclamation marks, and it became increasingly clear that you were not really interested in looking at your model, only displaying it, skeptism turned to frustration, thence to boredom and eventually to satire. Lots of people are now taking the piss, which is a bit cruel, I realise, but they're kind of doing it because you insist on continuing to blab on about autonomy, dignity, moderation, slappers blah blah Leapcakes, without having the slightest desire or, it seems increasingly clear, ability to look at your own or other people's ideas with the critical faculties normally expected. Every criticism was treated as at best a betise and at worst an insult, because the only possible reason to criticise Leaptopia was perversity or political dogmatism.
Now, quick Barbelith history lesson. Way back whem the Greenland Posse, survived by the much sanert now Bendt Chromeo, appeared. One of their threads was that the world was run by paedophiles, that one of their number (RRM, if I recall), had psychic powers that enabled him to detect paedophiles, and that the only sane course of action was to give him and psychic nonce-detectors like him weapons and the right to sniff (it was an aroma, you see) and kill with impunity.
At first people attempted to engage and discuss this, probably more so than on some boards since a lot of people were on-stream with the psychic powers thing already, at least. Then, as it became clear that this delusory world was not open to criticism, and any attempts to do so lead to abuse and accusations of being a part or pawn of the paedoplot, people just started taking the piss.
That's where you are heading now. And I know that you are thinking "Well, that's bollocks, because that's clearly crazy, whereas Leapworld makes perfect sense", but unfortunately that's how it works, and it doesn't *matter* if Leapworld is indeed the only hope for humanity. You've lost your audience. Best thing to do would probably be to try not to think about Leapworld for a while, certainly to stop rotting every thread you join by wanking on about dignity, autonomy, Astronomy Domine blah blah patent officecakes, just chill, hang and generally show us what an interesting and great person you are. Then maybe the politics again. But right now you're running down the up escalator. Seriously. I offer you this advice with nothing but the best intentions. |
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