The Little World

It is pure, natural stupidity.

I have what is apparently an inexhaustible supply of this and it seems a shame to waste the opportunity to turn it to good use. I have long since ceased to plague the general populace in a professional sense and even my trade days are done. Now I just build scale model aircraft and photograph them.

I use social media on two different platforms – one hosts weblog columns and one assists members of my model-building club. I’ve been warned not to mention the first social media group on the pages of the second – they’d scold me and hide the posts. That initially made me angry but now I see it simply as a ploy – it preserves their ability to sell advertisements and then keep the money. Nothing personal, just business.

For a while there they gave the impression that they were occupying a higher moral ground than I – though there was never any overt explanation of which words were banned. I’ve now looked over a list of phrases that trigger automatic mechanisms and think I can invent substitutes that will convey messages in an unobstructed manner.

I love playing the fool, but refuse to dance a censor’s gavotte just to fill their coffers.