Global Collapse

The handful of us here seem to be snoozing into the new year.

The handful of us here seem to be snoozing into the new year.

The collapse of talking about collapse while we are still waiting on collapse?

I will speculate that just based on our age and how long we've been waiting for it generally, personal collapse will arrive before we'll get to see the "Don't Look Up" excitement we've all been waiting for. Fingers crossed for something interesting to happen if only to make the Chinese proverb come true ("interesting times" etc etc).

Happy New Years everyone. Again.

A month in and quiet.  I don't think it is just us.  Social Media has seduced all the sheep and everyone but a handful of misfits lives in the collective corporate hive.  Video has rotted brains and all people can do is spectate.  Traffic is down across the board.  The unfortunates are without opinions and have become human tape recorders repeating what the Shepard dogs want them to say.  Nobody writes comments because opinions require thought.  Repetition requires none, but making completes sentences does.

I think it sucks.

What do you think of my story.  The calendar at the bottom lets you load previous chapters.

https://chasingthesquirrel.com/

Cutting and pasting here does carry my links over.

I have barely found time to look at any blogs, but on the rare occasion I have, there is very little of worth in comments.

On social media i just have Facebook and that was just to connect with friends and family, make myself easy to find for anyone wanting to. I don't do tiktok, Twitter, or Instagram. The main action now for me is in private chats. There is certainly plenty going on to talk about.

Here are two examples of what I mean in trying to have a sensible exchange these days.
If people are incapable of taking 5 minutes gathering information when they have a financial incentive, the outlook for any stimulating intellectual intercourse you are missing is bleak KD:


Hi interested in the steel for sale on gumtree. Can you tell me lengths and widths , thanx

The biggest beams are fourteen feet long the others would be roughly half that width wise he's not out there at the moment to measure it we were going to build a boat trailer out of it all for a thirty foot boat but I think it use to be a shed your welcome to have a look he's got to have the farm cleaned up by the end of this month he's leaving

Can you measure the length of the other posts. Not the 4m ones. Also how wide

Shortest beam is 9ft 6+4 inches wide

(In the fotos you can just make out two pieces of steel. No clue how many there are, or from the info given when i asked. Just the longest and the shortest, no total number or number of each length, or lengths other than the longest and shortest. Note the wall of text about things I'm not concerned with, that it's my responsibility to decipher).


6 deep cycle batteries

Hi I'm interested in these, can you tell me how old they are, year and month should be on the top. Also did they have always have water topped up?

No, I don't know how old they are. Add the idea of adding water is just weird...

It seems weird if you only deal with flashlight, phone or lap laptop batteries and other people do the maintenance checks on your car. Sealed lead-acid batts are pretty new. Deep cycles use a lot more water as the acid dries up than cars, especially if you are working them hard.

(Can we suspect these batts are for sale because she didn't know the water needs checking and stopped working, still hasn't learned anything?)


The attention economy is real and it is making morons. People choose their particular circus (of the bread and circuses antidote)  tailored a lot more to trending and viral and algorithms selections based on your searches. Interacting in commentary therein is stupid. Both because it is a stupid thing to do and the general level of intellect is genuinely stupid.
As you observed, there are the cheerleaders, mindlessly parrotting or deliberately lying and trolling. Both lying to themselves and also in hopes of helping win an information war. I've seen on social media commentary under an article where 95% of people are commenting on the information and impression provided by the headline only, when they clearly did not bother reading the article.
The same level of seeking factual information is evident in most comments where they seek to give an individual perspective providing additional information. That is, they simply make it up. I'll take the trouble to regale you with a three amusing anecdotes, if you're interested. In any case, well over 90% are the extent of their understanding expressed in a maximum of three sentences, though typically one. It's common practice now for many people to type walls of text not broken down with any punctuation. It's the readers job to take time to infer where the individual thoughts are seperated. It's a waste of your time giving any of them any form of reality check.