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Your posts likewise come across to me as such, and I enjoy conversations like this.Your posts come across as sincere and interesting. Through the years of debates on gaming forums I sometimes get accused of being a troll and that use to surprise me that a small number of people think I would be active on any forum and post links, share my opinion and engage about games I enjoy yet somehow I am trolling?
IMO this view comes from people who have become jaded and cynical so when you say " Codex is a place where I can have interesting discussions " they are unintentionally assuming their experience must be same as everyone elses which means it must be a negative one as far as interesting debates go. Sure their will always be members on any forum that dont appreciate or want a different view and prefer an echo chamber but I dont generally engage with people like that
I did debating at school and I always loved it. And the whole point of a debate is engaging with people who have a different view to you.....their would be no point to debating and we wouldnt learn anything new if we all had the same opinion. I am happy to debate any topic like religion, human rights, Trump, politics, war on terror, free market principles etc. We can debate any topic as long as people dont start insulting other people or using derogatory comments during the debate but as I mentioned I dont engage normally with people like that ....you know the old maxim " we can agree to disagree" on topics. And this doesnt mean despite possible political differences we cant always discuss games and RPG
And this is absolutely what I believe and always will....and no Im not trolling
These days I just prefer to argue, debate, have my views challenged &c with people I actually know, and in person. The dynamics online, the virtual posturing, genuflecting to whatever fleeting pseudointellectual paradigm is fashionable, or compensatory affecting of dissociated facetious mockery to mitigate unconscious insecurity, it became tiresome to a point where I just don't have the interest anymore to engage superficially anymore.
The degree to which our societies have been conditioned to partition themselves into endlessly bifurcating factions in perpetual fragmentation vying for an illusion of significance or power is thoroughly discouraging, and even alarming. In a virtual sphere of projection, where the internet mirrors what is beneath the floorboards, as if the mercurial channels of the unconscious itself were poured into a digital mold and cast, awakening an eventide archaic engram, its lycanthropic eyes peering from the umbra cast by modernity across the dark forest of our alienated souls, slumbering since the dawn of animal consciousness first rent the volatile membrane enveloping biological life. Something malevolent has been born and we are only dimly aware of its ontological ramifications, that very monstrous being anticipated by Yeats to which he gave expression:
"..the darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
