[Kzyxtalk] The problem and who it is.

[Marco McClean]

On 12/11/2014 3:30 PM, Elaine and Ed wrote:
> The problem is not me.

     Elaine, you keep saying this over and over in one way or another. 
If everywhere you look all you can see is the problem, the problem /is/ 
you. It's who you are. Until you recognize that, it's going to be you 
against yourself, stuck in a loop, punching yourself in the nose forever 
and forever blaming everyone and everything else.

     Everyone gets that you don't appreciate Douglas' sense of humor. He 
at least has one. Sometimes one-and-a-half.

     I have a few pet peeves, mostly involving fairness in one form or 
another. Formatting, sometimes: for example, it annoys me when people 
top-post in a forum or usenet group or listserv, meaning that they 
reply, within their post, at the top of what they're replying to rather 
than keeping a conversation understandable by answering after what's 
being edited and quoted. But it takes some people a longer time to learn 
than it takes others. I know people who started on BBSes twenty years 
ago --remember Redwood Free Net?-- and after all this time they still do 
it backward and gunk up the flow for anyone who still has an attention 
span, and I (internally) shake my fist at a cloud. Another example is 
when there's no level playing field where there most needs to be one-- 
such as in a tax-granted organization where the people in charge are not 
only doing a poor impression of a true public servant but paying 
themselves insane amounts of money for their time and maliciously 
shutting out anyone who they fear might point this up. Like the way it 
is at KZYX*, say. That bugs me. If I think of some more things I'll add 
them later.

     Oh, right: torture and racism and imperialistic mass-murder 
adventures. I almost forgot. And the constant threat of an 
extinction-level asteroid strike before we've established a viable 
offworld gene pool. These problems might be me, or rather I might be 
these problems. Now, you try to see yourself in what you hate and fear 
and vilify. See if you can do it.

*KZYX management squirrels away into its personal pockets well over 
$100,000 a year. That's two thousand fifty-dollar yearly memberships! 
While not paying even gas money to the people who are actually doing the 
work and art of radio under the thumb of and in many cases in trembling 
fear of management.