Social Media, Relevance, More So

An idea for a new social media site catering for the needs of today of those living in the times we live in now. The germ of the idea is that existing variants, such as Twitter, while culturally legitimate perhaps in relation to the time of their initial gestation, have become, in these accelerating times, obsolete due to the excessive verbosity within which they unashamedly wallow. My site, both more relevant and attuned, will be useful for keeping in touch with Celebrities and Friends but will also hope to foster and encourage debate and discussion of contemporary issues of relevance to the above as mentioned times we live in now.

The most relevant and revolutionary advancement on existing alluded to Social Media variants will be that User posts and responses to posts can be up to but no longer than one word in length. If what you have to say cannot be said in less than two words, then it isn't worth saying. Anything longer is pretentious.

In homage to Free Speech there will be no restrictions within the field of utilised language except that it will be vehemently and electronically moderated that, in the interests of democratic principles, the chosen employed single word be no longer than a single syllable. Users are asked to modify themselves accordingly.

Tommy, Awful Sad

The Scarecrow

By Lal and Mike Waterson off Bright Phoebus album, I think written by Lal though obviously sung by Mike . Check out Lal's two 1990s albums done with her son Oliver Knight - has some amazing stuff on them.

Subversive

'This is a very subersive piece.'
'Why? What is it subverting?'
'Everything.'
'Everything? And how is it doing that?'
'By ignoring it.'

Opened Closed

He opened his eyes, but almost as soon as he opened them he closed them again. Why is that? - he didn't like what he saw? Yes that might be it, he didn't like what he saw.

Proudhon, Property, Theft

There is a well known thought by the French 19th century thinker Proudhon that "Property is theft," and so to a quick look at this to see how much sense it makes.

Property and theft are two different words meaning two very different things. If Proudhon had said "Property is property," then while this inane pronouncement would have surely had no future fame, at least it wouldn't have abandoned sense. And similarly if he had said that "Theft is theft." However Proudhon ventured into the more strange waters of claiming one word to in perfect truth imply a very different word, i.e. that 'theft' and 'property' are one.

Someone may helpfully clarify that what Proudhon is trying to say is that property is itself immoral because of being the equivalent to the act of theft; that somebody owning something is by definition stealing from someone else.

However, stealing from someone can only exist where property exists in the first place, and so the idea that 'property is theft' is entirely unintelligible. To use the word theft is to necessarily accept the legitimacy of property - theft being the illegitimate taking of someone else's property. And so to try to say that property is theft is self-contradictory gibberish.

Characters

"There are no characters in your plays."
"I don't have any plays."
"Yes, but if you did there wouldn't be any characters in them."
"There might."

Soupy Norman

Soupy Norman, episodes 1 - Buttevant, 
7 - Straz,
8 - Prodigirl
Just 10 minutes each, Straz & Prodigirl probably the highlights of the series. Might need to be Irish to get much of it.

This Roof

"There was this roof - "
"Had it any leaks?"
"It was full of leaks . . . But the funny thing was that that was the best thing about it!"
"The best thing about it was it was full of leaks? It can't have been much of a roof."

Mind Body

"The mind-body problem? What problem?"

The Lonesome Boatman

The Lonesome Boatman original studio version.
Longer live version

reds

charcoal3543

cross

sircles cquares

at sea

Qht

One of my music pieces which for some reason or other I'm unable to embed here:

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Request

The much deserving Georgy Riecke  is in need of an enlarged audience. Afraid I've a small enough, perhaps to the point of non-existent, one myself, and, while I cannot vouch for any of their characters, real or imaginary, I don't begrudge any visitations they may confer on said Mr Riecke.

blacksmith

ice

cat

squares

whitish

helping

lady

man

napoleon

che val

looking back

careful

image

Trojan

out the road

charcoal again

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