Lex Anteinternet: More Random Acts of Randomness

Sunday, February 2, 2020

More Random Acts of Randomness

The juvenile nature of Reddit

It's worth noting that anyone exposing an absolutely absurd idea with conviction on a platform such as Reddit, let's say, for example, that Western societies return to a monarchical form of government, are probably 15 year old kids typing from their laptops. Yes, their unyielding belief is probably genuine, but its also a the youthful delusion of somebody who takes their position in the school forensic club way too seriously.

The Twitter Convinced.

It's also worth recalling that all Twitter political debates, aren't. They're just mutual self affirming circles.

There's dignity in distance

Likewise, people who feel they must unburden their angst on Twitter should realize that you can't get any serious advice from anonymous strangers in 200 characters. Such stuff caused me to dump the feed of a academic historian whose feed went from fascinating World War Two topics to a non stop critique of her Mid Western relatives and the lamentations over her divorce.

There's a place for that, but it isn't Twitter. If you must continually critique everyone you know and continually dump on your ex spouse in public, get a blog where you can at least do it in greater volume . . .but be prepared for intelligent counters as well.

The Republic has been this divided.

The next pundit idiot who comments that "the public in this country has never been so divided" should go to library and look up Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote.

Nobody knows if a Teen Talent has any.

It doesn't matter what pundits say about a person like Billie Eilish. She's not famous because she's a massive singing talent, she's famous as she might be an attractive 18 year old who is the midst of a massive dopey teen meltdown more befitting somebody who is 15. People like watching that for some reason.

Nobody really knows if a teen star has any talent until they're pushing 30, quite frankly, by which time they aren't the same person they were when they were 18, for which we should all be duly thankful.

Dryer sheets are completely pointless.

You really don't need to buy them. No, you don't.

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Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

We hope you'll feel moved to comment as well. While we moderate every comment, so as to weed out Spam, we greatly appreciate the comments where they are offered, and hope to see more.

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