Poll: Do We Frighten the Primitives?

[franksolich]

This is my every-four months poll, regarding quality-checking of the primitives on Skins's island, to see if the primitives are living up to their own standards (about being morally superior to decent and civilized people, about being more intelligent than decent and civilized people, about being more caring than decent and civilzied people, and so on).

I'm starting to become more and more concerned, because the primitives haven't been putting out like they used to.

The primitives used to supply the real world, and all decent and civilized people therein, with lots and lots of really good material, but now they seem to be in a funk.

I notice this especially in those smaller forums that franksolich explores.

Both the automotive forum and the deaf-and-hard-of-hearing forums are congested with cobwebs.  They used to be buzzing hives of frenzied activity.

Now, lately, the cooking and baking primitives, and the do-it-yourself primitives, seem to have stagnated.

And, God help me, even the mental health and disability forums have slown down perceptibly.  There used to be new bonfires and new comments with every press of the "refresh" button; now such seems an hourly or two-hourly momentum.

And individually, there's many Primitives of Prominence who haven't been around as much as they used to be.  One of course has to discount for short-term stays in those big buildings with little rooms with soft walls, but even with allowing for that, one notices a droppage in the appearance of Primitives of Prominence on Skins's island.

The primitives don't seem to be putting out like they used to, and I wonder why that is.

[Lord Undies]

Transparency scares the sh*t out of the Little Goons and Goonettes, and right now their worldview is being Windex-ed. 

We scare them because we don't have to be scared of anything in order to hold on to what we know is the truth.

[franksolich]

Transparency scares the sh*t out of the Little Goons and Goonettes, and right now their worldview is being Windex-ed.

Actually, that's the primitives' own fault, for being voluntarily and wilfully ignorant of the world outside of Skins's island.

One gets the impression the primitives would rather not be observed and commented upon, but hey, Skins's island is a public forum, open for all in the whole world to see.  Surely the primitives, despite their lesser cerebral capabilities, understand this.

Obviously, the primitives are frightened by decent and civilized people watching them, but I don't understand why.  It's just the internet, not real life.  It's not like one of our fists is going to come crashing through the screen of a primitive computer, harming the primitive.

Interestingly, it's some primitives on Skins's island itself who pose the great threat to other primitives, being not only on the internet but also in real life predators, stalkers, blackmailers, bullies, thugs.  I give you the now-mausoleumed Fat Che as an example, and there's current primitives far more of a peril, a hazard, to the primitives, than any decent and civilized people.

Decent and civilized people simply "hurt" the primitives' "feelings;" these Depravities disguised as primitives on Skins's island can, and probably have, done a lot more real injury to primitives.

So if in fact decent and civilized people are inhibiting, intimidating, the primitives from posting, from providing good material, the primitives have misplaced paranoia.  

We scare them because we don't have to be scared of anything in order to hold on to what we know is the truth.

One wonders which agency of human decency and civility frightens the primitives the most--the "Best/worst of DU" forum at our old home or P-J Comix's most-excellent DUmmie FUnnies.

I'd like to give us some credit too, but we're still new and tiny, insignificant in the internet.  Other than Pedro Picasso and the sparkling husband primitive, probably no other primitives even know we exist.

[Carl]

Not sure frighten is the exact word but close enough.
I think normal folks frustrate them and the knowledge that very little of what they crave (a life escaped from society with drugs and hedonism) will ever happen.
They know deep down that they will always be misfits and failures,living in misery.

I also think that they know their obsession with denying God is a silly thing to do and they are terrified of what eternity holds but the master of their lives has prevented them from accepting that and changing it.

[Duke Nukum]

I think everything frightens them which is why they are so angry all the time.

[Lord Undies]

I'd like to give us some credit too, but we're still new and tiny, insignificant in the internet.

The "we" I meant was the collective "we", meaning all who take an interest, not just ConservativeCave.

[franksolich]

The "we" I meant was the collective "we", meaning all who take an interest, not just ConservativeCave.

Yeah, I know that.

The primitives don't like decent and civilized people from anywhere, watching them.

Even though we're all nice people, simply watching the primitives as if they're on television or something.

[USA4ME]

Substitute the word "frighten" with "anger" and it's a definate YES.

When the B/W forum first went up at CU in March/April 2004, several come over and expressedly said they didn't like us laughing at their discussions.  That we found them funny when they regarded their discussions to be very serious got under their skin.  It still does.  There were even some primitives, Rat(ionality) being the primary one, who said they wanted the site shut down and made it their goal to try and make it so.  The poster leave_no_billionaire_behind, a former primitive who later moved to P4C, came to the board (can't remember his CU user name) and said he was going to post something derogitory about conservatives at least once everyday until admin decided to shut down the B/W forum.  I lost count of how many primitves signed up just to send us nasty PM's about observations we had made regarding how stupid they were.  I could list more but you get the idea.

As to the level of activity, I've been too busy working lately to take note.  My guess is before the election they united around their common hatred of Bush.  They still do that, and lately with Cheney speaking up it's given them a common rally point.  But now with Dear Leader in command, and him not placing everyone the primitives want him to place in concentration camps, they're disillusioned, which was predictable.   The primitives are all indians who believe they're chiefs; they all view themselves as the smartest one in the room.  Skin's informing them that in order to stay on the island their speech must be "Obama is always right, therefore I must formulate my argument so that it best proves it" is the type of childish hand-holding the primitives need.  I'd say give them a little more time to become accustomed to the prison cell they've placed themselves in and maybe they'll spout off a little more than they have lately.

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[franksolich]

You see, USA4ME, sir, I've been concerned because there has been a drop-off in primitive bonfires and comments, especially those where I hang around.

Our own drop-off in traffic is because summer has finally sprung, and decent and civilized people like to be out-and-about during pleasant weather--but that's not the excuse of the primitives, who avoid Light and Warmth as if they're evil.

I suspect I'm a little more "sensitive" to the flow of traffic, than are most; since I don't waste any energy "hearing" and "listening," the eyes have more time, more space, to watch.

The drop-off in primitive bonfires and comments in the following forums on Skins's island bothers me greatly; one wonders if the B/W of DU at our old home, or the DUmmie FUnnies have been inhibiting primitives from posting--

(a) the deaf-and-hard-of-hearing forum has always been a low-activity forum, but now it's moribund;

(b) the automotive forum has always been a medium-low-activity forum, but now it's just as cobweb-filled as the deaf-and-hard-of-hearing forum;

(c) the cooking-and-baking forum used to be hopping more than a grasshopper with the itch, but now it's pretty slow;

(d) the do-it-yourself forum used to be reasonably active, but no more; and

(e) the mental health, fat, and disability forums used to get new material--either bonfires or comments--at least every sixty seconds, but now one's fortunate to find new material there perhaps every couple of hours.

One wonders what's going on.

[Duke Nukum]

The reason for the DUmmie drop off could be that there is less interest now that the DUmmies ostensibly have everything they want in terms of government, either they are satisfied and feel like "mission accomplished" or they are embarrassed at how wrong they were.

Could it also have to do with the Skinner purges of the DUmmie homosexual community?

Has Bad Cat performed a Dumpster Dive in a while?

[BlueStateSaint]

I think that we do.  Not so much in the literal sense, but in the academic sense--in that some of the more thinking primitives (those with three brain cells, for example, or moles, who aren't primitives) have this inkling that the Obamessiah is going to screw their side over royally, and soon.  And we will have been proven right all along about him.

[miskie]

I don't think we do - and It's a bad thing.

If we did, maybe some of them would modify their stupid (yet entertaining) behavior. -- Its like what happens to wild turkeys, skunks, and possums who aren't frightened of highways and oncoming traffic.

[diesel driver]

I don't think we do - and It's a bad thing.

If we did, maybe some of them would modify their stupid (yet entertaining) behavior. -- Its like what happens to wild turkeys, skunks, and possums who aren't frightened of highways and oncoming traffic.

Just like turkeys, skunks and possums, even if they knew what the result of meandering onto well-traveled roads, still wouldn't do anything different....

I also believe we DO scare them, not at first, but when those headlights from a heavy SUV is staring them in the eyes, for a brief moment, they know fear....