WHY I SELDOM BLOG
I have run
out of stories from my past. Opinions no
longer promote thought and discussion; they promote judgement and anger. Happenings around the Cranky home have already
been well documented. (And
often treated as if I was looking for solutions to a problem…apparently, I suck
at sarcasm.)
I have also
noticed a significant difference in reader reactions to my posts and in general
any media articles or news items.
I sometimes
go back and read old posts from 2012 to around 2017. Posts that many, if I do say so myself, are
dang funny and occasionally almost inciteful.
Comments
typically used to be, “Funny Cranky” or “LOL” or “ROFLMAO”
or “I know you are joking, but much of this is spot on” or “Your wife
is a hoot” or “I totally disagree, but still had to laugh at some of
this crap.”
Comments
today would be,
“I
think you meant insightful, not inciteful, unless you wanted to start a riot!”
I read an
article today about 6-year-old twins, and their reaction to a present of
clothes and not toys. I expected comments
on the parenting style to what I thought was a bratty child reaction. Instead, at least 40% of the comments were on
the authors apparent grammatical flaw of referring to the Twins as a “Pair
of twins.” I did not even notice this flaw as I am apparently also grammatically
challenged.
For instance,
I still refer to pants as a pair of pants, not a pair of pant. Or glasses as a pair of glasses, or pliers as
a pair of pliers, or even scissors as a pair of scissors. (Plus, it just took me four tries to
spell scissors correctly).
I should
not even be allowed to post!
I think I
may have just slid slightly off topic.
Point is, it
seems to me that these days people do not read anything to learn, discuss, laugh,
or cry. Instead, there is a tendency to be insulted, indignant or judgmental.
People are
angry.
In our
current nationwide effort to be inclusive of different people, cultures, and
ideas, we have become compartmentalized finger pointing virtue signalers.
This is of
course a giant generalization, but the point is it is a clear direction that we
are moving towards, and I do not like the direction one bit.
