Really makes me think. I have raged all my life at prohibition because that actually creates the black market for drugs, and all the prostitution, theft, gang violence, OD's, child abuse, utterly preposterous spending on tyranny and the prison industrial complex, destruction of human rights, families destroyed, children sold into sex slavery by evil foster and adoptive parents, adulteration, disease, horrific pollution from criminal labs, blackmail, blood, gory bloated, bestial bastardy, and more besides. DV's are like that. They enable theft from the community by worse criminals than they're (claimed to be) intended to defund, centralize governance, deprecate content quality, egregiously demoralize creators, depress adoption and obliterate retention, censor the best thinkers and authors (as you prove by your departure and migration to Blurt), steal from innocent individuals, and, of course, more, and worse.
I have thought all this time that DV's were actually substantial foils and curbs on spam, plagiarism, and scams, but recently I had occasion to ask Marky about exactly that and to my surprise he said they have very little effect, because both spammers and scammers aren't seeking income from the posts flagged but from the scams and crappy schemes they're promoting.
I have realizations like this and think of centuries of horrific oppression and obscene profiteering by evil psychos that deliberately derange society, gaslighting billions and causing them to sacrifice reason and honor for a spook: that people aren't capable of controlling their drug use. That in fact so many people are so incompetent that society itself would be destroyed if people could just decide themselves whether they should take a dose that makes them feel good or not (which is utterly, blatantly, provably false), and I get blackpilled, despair that whatever created the universe made things so shitty that jillions of man years of suffering were endured instead of felicity and peace, the copacetic society we should have built, if we'd only worked together in good faith.
I look at the illimitably vast cornucopia of resources across the universe just laying there awaiting enterprising men to develop them, just free for the taking, ready to build with and create any paradise we could imagine, and I wonder if the present transcendence of centralization, the development and dispersal of decentralized means of production across the continents and billions of households on Earth, can really enable such stupid people as these, that have been mentally strangled by psychopaths for millennia on Earth, repressed by such obvious - and so many - lies and deceptions, to take to the skies, to fly free of such abusive despotism and truly demonstrate the truth of the ancient prophecies of wizened seers, that this people will create and enjoy in perpetuity paradise, free and prosperous, no more to be bamboozled, bribed, or blackmailed, to bring felicity, joy, and love to one another?
My heart stumbles but a moment on such folly, and I realize that even we who aren't geniuses, who are of middling intellectual capacity, were we not misled, would not so horribly err. Mayhap we wouldn't aspire to the boldest ventures, the quickest and cleverest wonders, but even plodding and mundane we could be surfeited with felicity. It isn't superlative insight that makes us good. Just ordinary integrity, affection, and plain old honor. That, without duplicity, intentional misguidance into error purposely compounded by vile darkness and craving to hurt, to harm, to torment, would be enough to build simple, bucolic pastures where simple, saintly people could live simple, pleasant lives, sweetly loving and lingering betimes with one another, spawning an easy ecstasy the rabidly pathological, seeking only to destroy, seethingly despise, blessed generation upon beknighted generation.
And then I am grateful for you, for your careful considerations and persistent practice that has made this comment possible, has brought it to me on a silver platter to bless me with understanding I did not before conceive, perceive, or believe.
Thanks! And thanks again, for these ideas that have been pushed from my feeble understanding, handwaved away by profiteers using me to increase their hoard by deceiving this horde, this Hive of villainy and scum unlike any that has been before, that I have been unable to derive myself. As an aside I realize I probably shouldn't stay up drinking three nights in a row, either, as it makes me giddy and excessively verbose.
'Well said.' Prolly coulda left it at that, eh?
Yes, take a nap buddy
Get the alcohol out
Got the alcohol out, ~3am again. Listening to the driving sheets of storm over my cozy hobbiton makes me glad to get such good advice from people that care. I'll toast your health and coziness.