General Discussion

The article finds one guy to say it's a good word, so, of course it's fine to go to the newly sacred f-word ("fascist" ) dogma and hyperventilate it into the headline.

I'm starting to reluctantly accept that people seem to have to moor themselves to "some" simplistic, emotionally charged dogma, whether it calls itself religious or scientific or kind, or, usually, all three.

We can't accept that it's important to exercise without saying "vaccines are bad" on the one hand, or, "fascists are under my bed," on the other. Why can't it just be obvious that exercise is good and vaccines are too?

But no, smh, every little obvious fact about the world, including greed, laziness, and political bias has to be filtered through some form of simplistic melodrama of the mind. A story. Yay. I'm starting to understand what Harlan Ellison said about this whole thing. To paraphrase, the witless, blind mob drags the world down with its silliness, and that would be okay if it didn't drag down the rest of us too.