Yesterday (Friday) evening, I checked my clarebootheluce e-mail, finding a complaint from someone on Skins's island, alleging I had been unfair in my depiction of a situation.
I was floored by receipt of the message, because while I've watched the primitives for nine years, and commented upon the primitives for seven, this was the very first time I've ever heard anything from Skins's island, first hand.
I've always envied decent and civilized people who carry on dialogues with primitives directly and first hand, but of course those are people more prominent than I; probably 99% of the primitives aren't even aware franksolich exists.
Over the years, there's been a few times I've heard from a primitive--most notably Pedro Picasso and a couple of the acolytes of the late red round one--but only third hand, never directly.
I read the missive, and the primitive from Skins's island convinced me I was being rather, uh, too judgemental. The explanation was straightforward and utterly credible; it of course included confidential details not revealed on Skins's island (and not to be revealed here either).
I have no doubt, no doubt at all, that once in a blue moon I have judged a primitive too harshly.
However.
However.
However.
Given the track record of the primitives in general, of the primitives when considered all together, what with all of their prevarication, mendacity, deception, exaggeration, and bald-faced lies, it's always wise to take the primitives with not a grain, but a block, of salt.
To say that the primitives stretch things 100% of the time is not quite true; perhaps 99.8% or 99.99999% of the time, but that is not quite the same thing as 100% of the time, and so once in a while an innocent one gets pilloried.
One is known by the company one keeps.
