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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
I don't know if the Cellar has changed in the last several weeks, or if I've just had my eyes opened for me. Either way it ain't good. I've really reduced my participation in threads in which I have a real opinion. I'm afraid to make my stance on anything known, for fear of stirring up a shit storm of one form or another. I guess I'll have to restrict myself to not reading anything outside of the picture threads. And the fun gets sucked right out of those pages more often, too, seems like.
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No, the cellar hasn't really changed.
There are some posters who delight in ganging up on others who don't share their world view OR their bizarre sense of cyber "friendship" - these are the mutual masturbators. They say things like, "No, YOU'RE wonderful and smart and good!!" and the other says, "NO, YOU are!! You are so smart and wonderful!! I think you're really keen!!" etc. if you anger a person in this collective they will all circle round you and call you names and berate you until you are just so weary of it you start looking at the pictures and don't say anything controversial at all about anything - which means you say nothing. I've seen some mighty funny folk just wither away under this type of soul-killing banality. It's almost as if, being boring and completely without the power of creative or ironic thought, these people wear those who do have those qualities down to the nub so that they, too, only spout the Company Line and we all become shades of their vanilla.
There are also those personalities who feel they must, simply
must, stand up for the perceived underdog
no matter what dreck or drivel or wrong-headed mean bullshit the underdog spouts. Some dwellars feel the ONLY correct postion on any matter is the unpopular one and will die going down with the ship. This, too, is tiring, makes one weary, and contributes to a false homogenous cellar where everyone is wary, quick to apologize, and suspicious.
fun, huh?