09-04-2024, 11:58 PM
In the practice of narrative control, those agencies and cabals involved will contrive anything within their imagination to establish 'sentiment' about very sensitive topics. We have actually witnessed this most recently with the COVID event. But it had been happening for quite some time (generally since the early 20th century) and there are many examples of it in the mainstream, robotically repeated over and over... always to make any speculation about an "agenda" seem - on it's face - completely the domain of lunatics and paranoids... all the while repeatedly proved true... over and over... and always met with the same process of social counter-conditioning.
[what follows this is just my opinion as a member]
ATS had been a bastion of a more dispassionate approach to the topics and information about certain topics, rather than just a collection of tabloidesque "shock and reaction" conversations... In other words, if it was to be marketed as "entertainment," it was entertainment of a different order. Many referred to it as "denying ignorance."
It distinguished itself in a common appreciation of sane and sober discussion... and achieved it for quite a long while there...
Frankly, it veered from that, and the community suffered.
This is not exactly any particular person's fault or doing, nor do I believe that it was a change 'wrought upon it'... just a kind of organic 'break' in the dialogue, leaving a vacuum to be filled with less-focused, more opinionated and transient exchanges to bubble to the forefront...
It was that change which was seized upon, to make room for certain personalities to effect their own personal visions in driving the community (quite undemocratically, I might add.) Almost needless to say... that ploy didn't work out, and the response felt was a stereotypically petulant destructive 'leadership' reaction...
ATS appears to have experienced an intentional deathblow... but the actual community has not... it remains...
Which brings some of us here...
The rest is up to us all.
Remember, we are still here.
[Just an opinion, nothing more.]
[what follows this is just my opinion as a member]
ATS had been a bastion of a more dispassionate approach to the topics and information about certain topics, rather than just a collection of tabloidesque "shock and reaction" conversations... In other words, if it was to be marketed as "entertainment," it was entertainment of a different order. Many referred to it as "denying ignorance."
It distinguished itself in a common appreciation of sane and sober discussion... and achieved it for quite a long while there...
Frankly, it veered from that, and the community suffered.
This is not exactly any particular person's fault or doing, nor do I believe that it was a change 'wrought upon it'... just a kind of organic 'break' in the dialogue, leaving a vacuum to be filled with less-focused, more opinionated and transient exchanges to bubble to the forefront...
It was that change which was seized upon, to make room for certain personalities to effect their own personal visions in driving the community (quite undemocratically, I might add.) Almost needless to say... that ploy didn't work out, and the response felt was a stereotypically petulant destructive 'leadership' reaction...
ATS appears to have experienced an intentional deathblow... but the actual community has not... it remains...
Which brings some of us here...
The rest is up to us all.
Remember, we are still here.
[Just an opinion, nothing more.]
