Weekend Economists Ring in the Old, Wring Out the New: Dec. 30, 2011 to Jan. 2, 2012

[Demeter]

140. GENERAL, OFF-TOPIC QUERY: What has changed so much on DU that it feels like a foreign land?

I no longer go to LBN because the stuff there isn't particularly newsworthy. The Good Reads usually aren't. Everything seems trivial.

I stick to my last here at SMW and WEE. I don't even bother posting elsewhere, partly because there is so little news permitted out during holidays, and partly because I know there will be no welcome reception of what I've found significant.

I've seen crossposting out of WEE and SMW, valiant attempts by xchrom and others to spread the news, but it just isn't anything like it was.

I've served on a number of juries, and found that usually it's the thin-skinned paranoid or the native-born humorless alerting, and the odds are that half the time, the jury goes with them, to no purpose except squelching alternate perspectives. That's not a discussion, it's group-think for damaged egos.

Going elsewhere? Well, the facilities here are superior to anything else I've seen...the html codes, the structure...

It's just the willingness to put on the blindfold, drink the hopium, and posture that's getting to me.

That, and the stalled economy.

Guess it's time to do something useful...