Subj : Re: New Venue
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Ron L.
Date : Fri Feb 14 2025 08:12:58

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

 AT> Books on BBSs? That's crazy! And woke nonsense in a book about BBSs?
 AT> That's even crazier! I haven't seen a lot of wokeism on BBSs (just here
 AT> on Fido maybe.)

Well BBSing is getting bigger.  Some of the younger crowd is learning about it.

The first book was "The Modem World - A Prehistory or social media" by Kevin
Driscoll. I didn't have high hopes for it, but I have to say that it didn't
even meet that low bar.

Lots of Woke BS scattered through the book like the demographic of BBSs
"skewing in favor of white men."  And mostly focusing on the "fringe" BBSs and
groups that dealt with the Alphbet Soup crowd as opposed to the vast majority
of BBSs that focused on geeky topics.

The end result was that you were left with an idea that BBSs were run by
gay/trans people who did drag shows every night.  Then in the final chapter, he
laments that some of his students came away with a "unexpected misunderstanding
of early online culture." Well, duh!

The other was "You Are Not Expected To Understand This.  How 26 Lines of Code
Changed the World".  Edited by Torie Bosch.  It was supposed to be a book of
short stories about the early days of computers, but ended up being just a
bunch of Woke propaganda.

Both ended up in the Goodwill pile, hopefully for someone to use to start their
bonfire.

 AT> It's always that way. They are all such idiots. I feel dumb for having
 AT> a "Mike Sigler" sign in my yard this past summer, because I later found
 AT> out that he's a former news anchor. (What's a former news anchor doing
 AT> running as a "Republican" for state senate?) And of course he lost -
 AT> that was part of the plan.

Part of the problem is that we still think of politics in the way we were
taught in school (which was probably incorrect back then too).  We need to
really see this through the lens of power dynamics and choose our candidates
wisely.


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