I remember back in the early 2000s forums like this was all the rage, in the very beginning of the internet’s infancy they were quite popular.
But then MySpace and Facebook came along, much later Twitter (Now X) where places like this became cyber ghost towns overnight.
This is one of the few forums of its kind to survive since the early 2000s which makes it very unique.
I think that internet forums like this are going to become popular once again in the near future because as internet censorship, thought crimes, and wrongthink increases politically in our world on all the mainstream larger corporate platforms smaller independent platforms like this are going to become the last bastions of free speech as small holdouts of the old world in contrast to the nightmarish new world they’re trying to construct everywhere.
So, that’s why I have come here recently and why I am so active almost daily.
I’ve tried to find other forums to try out, but found them lacking a certain je ne sais quoi [age group either too young and unworldly or too old and vicious/spiteful/angry/tormented/demented/jealous] but about the sock-puppet trolls here, huh..
No, not me or my wife, just some nostalgia vibes of the early 2000s era. The pictures are random. I will never post a picture of myself online in this period of political persecution.
I think the difference of an ‘old-fashioned’ place like this and Tik Tok, Insta, even YouTube is that there you can’t have any type of serious discussion, it’s all very superficial, one guy speaks and all the audience just applauds enthusiastically, also each one chooses his niche and closes himself in his own limited circle, where nothing is ever questioned, he only accepts the opinions of those who rigorously agree with him.
As I had written before in an open letter to Carleas:
I like a variety of different viewpoints as well, makes it more fun and entertaining. I also like the added practice within debates strengthening my own views and philosophy. I like and enjoy challenges.
I like to think of myself as an intellectual heretic, I pride myself in forbidden and unusual knowledge or information. I am drawn to the forbidden and taboo like a moth to a candle lit flame. Some people call me insane, certainly wouldn’t be the first time, I prefer the title unusually eccentric, shrewd, and clever.
No, freedom of speech would be my weapon of propaganda choice at the state level so that way stupid ideas are publicly debated and destroyed within public humiliation. The only way to destroy ideas or thoughts is with other ideas and thoughts that are superior in design being conveyed collectively at the public level. (All made possible for general public consumption. )
Ok, but since we’re theorizing, when you found your communist state, will you allow people to talk their minds on the internet or some regulation will be necessary? Will people be free to conspire against you publicly? Imagine that yours are the hands that can shut down the social networks at will.
People can debate politics and philosophy all they want, our state intellectuals would also be there for debate as well so that no false information could go unchallenged.
Technically not even in those most liberal of democracies are groups allowed to plot and conspire against the state, so no.
