Disclaimer:
***I would hope the mods exercise managerial discretion with regards to this post - I'm discussing a member, true, but only for the fixed & immutable
purpose of bringing this thread BACK ON-TOPIC, away from the incessant, deceptive & dissonant drivel that currently fills its pages.***
Mod assigned to check this post? Please read my comments in full with an open mind, I will be more than happy to resubmit an edited version of this
comment as needed (I copy/pasted the whole thing to a doc), but blimey, I haven't seen such wilful, deceptive engineering of nonsensical thread drift
anywhere on ATS, ever! Skim read the past forty pages and see how cleverly it was done, how different members were unawares engaged in discussions
concerning different irrelevancies by the same person, how he 'empathy-glued' himself to new people as the preceding others realised what was
happening... All of this, leaves us with the tragic net effect of committed contributors sighing, turning away, & consigning this amazing thread to
'What a damn shame...'
Main post:
Aside from this last page or so (which I found interesting - and yes, I agree that the distribution of non-constructive comments should generally be
straight to the inbox, instead of trolling/derailing actual channels of conversation), this wonderful thread has become a repetitive
ego-massage/circle jerk surrounding the omnipresent member we all know, whose views morph in accordance with whom said member is talking with at any
one point in time.
That isn't said as an insult, it's more an astute observation, and one which The GUT himself has iterated, a number of times, with exasperation, in
this, originally one of his finest threads (until the circle jerk of warping misinfo irrelevancies began).
I want to point out that per terms & conditions of membership, any contribution to this thread should be based around the content of the OP, and the
initial responses & discussions surrounding the topics raised in the OP, and not in response only to the seeming infinitude of irrelevancies expressed
as loosely affiliated components of the grand multitude of worldviews held by one particular, ubiquitous member.
Honestly, said member, tell the truth - are you just looking for empathy? I can understand that, I feel lonely too. However, since I have followed
this thread page by page from the very beginning, I can be straightforward with you & ask you to please, pretty please, stop 'contributing' - unless
you have something of direct relevance to add, in terms of something that applies to a consideration of the OP & the initial gaggle of interesting &
thought-provoking replies, associated reflections & linked topics.
NB - 'Direct relevance' does not mean grasping at straws & happy-happy-joy-joy with anyone who decides to engage with you and your morphing plethora
of acceptable worldviews (many of which are directly contradictory to previously stated beliefs, and thus your online personality is entirely
dissonant - I see that in other threads you have found an 'excuse' for this, but it doesn't wash with me, having watched from the beginning...)
And, before you say that I am breaking my own rule of directing 'insults' in-thread, as opposed to dumping them to an inbox, it is not the same
thing - not at all.
I want to see
The GUT back in this thread & happily engaging with a great number of intelligent & curious souls who respect his work, who are
intrigued by the wide-ranging implications of his presentation - a truly great presentation, consisting various existing theories (collated for us),
or ideas directly derived from The GUT's own reasoning, based on observed patterns of data.
The GUT seems to be saddened by the necrosis of this thread, & I totally understand why - I am too.
My frustration is IMMENSE, when I see page after nonsensical page of self-propelled egoism & pedestal posturing - with of course, the ever-mutating
POV of the main offender. Talk about thread drift - if you read all of it (a literally painful experience; the brain boggles) - you will see how
well-crafted it actually is.
To be honest, the Mods didn't pick up on this in the early stages of the derailment, because initially it was tenuously linked to the actual topic of
the OP. However, as a result of the intensive & persistent efforts of one man, placing himself centre stage in the sights of all members, this thread
has become such a tangle of BS and self-effacing crap, that no single Mod can actually be expected to go back & delete all of the member's
derail/drift comments.
That's a shame, because a Mod on steroids is what it would probably take in order to draw the GUT (& other intelligent, self-consistent members with
something of value to add) back into a proper conversation on the ideas that have resulted from his original presentation/ follow-up comments. The
initial discussion, of course including
truly linked topics, with potential ramifications of each scenario, were excellent - and then
the derailment began. The entire second half of the comments in this thread are an absolute maelstrom of nonsense - self-effacing gush & guff, which
deserves to be 404'd into oblivion.
Sorry if this offends anyone, but come on - how many others have stayed around for more than a few pages to respond to said member before they
realised what was going on, shook their heads sadly, & left the thread never to return? It's an absolute disgrace, a travesty in truth - it brings
the calibre of content on the site down to kindergarten level, & destroys the potential opening of minds by creating a whirl of inconsistent
dissonance.
It's so utterly pervasive as to have a truly 'grey goo' effect on the desire to contribute actual, valid, reasonable & well thought-out inquiry,
destroying the very fabric of what started life as an otherwise excellent example of what ATS can be - a pool of knowledge, insight, linking of
topics, debate & discussion, with civility, with wit & fervour, with intellectual rigour.
Said member, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Ironically,
this comment is likely to be 404'd instead, & therefore I have copied it to The GUT's inbox, in the hope that he will
understand that we really, really need him back here, to combat the drivel that has inundated his thread for the past forty pages or so. Good God in
Heaven, we need to up the ante, asap - it's appalling that we've allowed this to happen to such a great thread. I have a mind to go back, dig out
the best comments from the early stages, & deliberately re-quote them in full, in order to rebuild a platform upon which the fire of proper discussion
can burn brightly.
I will in fact do that, though I will wait to see if any previous contributories are willing to resist the flood of nonsense that put a muzzle on
their innate right - the right to civilised discussion without interruption or deception from a man who claims to believe 'a' on day one, 'z' on
day two, 'f' on day three, 'x' on day four, 'b' on day five, 'j' on day six, & 'zilch' on day seven. Ad infinitum...
ARGH!
GUT said the same thing, many moons ago, but the charade continued - different day, same (yet vaguely different) #.
No resonance radiating into our subconscious. Dissonance reigns, Chaos scores a point.
The Control System is operational..