Harper Held

Or I embarrassed them into fixing it...hope springs eternal. Let's experiment! I'll see if I can reproduce it with a "typo" ar*****s [EDIT]Interesting, but it left the trailing "s" which the original post didn't...ofc it's possible I left off a letter in the censored post? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TYRANT ...conqueror of humanity! ...just kidding! I'm actually just a humble Serf (with a well-stocked bar!)

....your dreams were your ticket out 😈

/me awaits the "people who we were wrong about coming back and should go back away now thank you" list, with my name appearing at the top if it! 😈🤣

BEWBS ...clearly, an intelligentsia am I... 😈🤣😍

That was indeed the word, yep! in plural form. What's weird is that it didn't censor the first couple of letters. Maybe I typo'd and it thought i was trying to spell tee eye tee ess? I doubt it. As I said somewhere else; I think the auto mod (and mod's "bad-word" list) is inspired by particularly low-budget and possibly generic form of freebased cocaine. That's why I say "there be dragons here"; no one knows, no one has any honest way to know and it is unpredictable how and when it will strike.

Here's where I remind you, her, and the audience watching at home that the word for a person who creates art was automatically censored from my post earlier in this thread. Unlike virtualverse one; there be dragons here.

I didn't! But I bet you didn't post that scene from The Matrix where C3P0 meets his maker...

I'm pretty sure that's one of the Laws of Robotics from Philip K. Dick's "Stranger in a strange land"...

Bones also had my favorite line: "Dammit, Jim -the Spice must flow!"

I meant interpret. A large part (not all of it) of the intellectual part of punk was a reaction to watergate/cold war/economic pressures of the 70's and a disappointment with the hippie movement (or the fact the hippie movement disappated into cocaine-feuled hedonism by that point). Punk and Hip-hop both had explicit roles articulating what their communities were going through. It would never occur to me to describe Hunter S Thompson as "punk" but he is a great example of what I mean by "interpretive". He went where things were happening and described what he experienced in a new way. An argument could be made for and against Burroughs doing the same thing though obviously adding several levels of obscufation on his experiences! Everything builds on something else, everything's influenced by something else, so yes, the punks of the 70's actively said "you know, I can relate a lot more to fear and loathing than I can to woodstock because things really suck right now". I think all three of the artists (Thompson, Smith, Burroughs) wrote about their experiences which the 70's artists etc (including Patti Smith, obviously) saw reflecting what was going on. But they didn't dictate -not as I see it. At least not until the 80's when bands like X and the Dead Kennedys came around.

Holy Anti-intellectualism BatLinden .. THIS is a telling and ominous choice of words to censor ! "Strange days indeed"

Geez louise, I am definitely not bringing my a game today, my apologies! I'm running on 4 hours sleep. Again, I am literally uneducated -or to split hairs self educated which is basically the same thing. I don't say this to be all "aw shucks" and crap but to head off being called out for (probably obvious) gaps in my knowledge. I agree with your description of "intelligentsia" as being the artists, writers and musicians who have an influence on the dominant culture. Warhol and the factory scene with the way they influenced *at least* two different pop culture movements (punk and whatever you want to call the proto-goth scene of the late 70's;early 80's) is a classic example. The punk, heavy metal and hip hop movements were (co-opted) attempts by the lumpen proles to distill and express life and society as they experienced it by the writers, performers and associated ar***** going through it...and I would argue makes them Intelligentsia. I don't feel it's a "guidance" role though there is room for that -but rather an interpretive role.

I simply mean that I'll bring up references in-game that almost anyone on the forum would understand (agree with is a different thing) but the people I'm talking to will generally react with some variation of "huh, hadn't heard that one". I don't mean necessarily memes but regular discussions ("is sl a game", metaverse *anything* ). A lot of people I hang out with don't know because it has almost nothing to do with them -from their point of view.

My personal experience (people doing the avatar equivalent of staring blankly when I refer to forum this or forum that) tells me it doesn't even reach. Most disagreements appear to reflect real world influences ("I saw this on FOX", "I saw this on MSNBC") than forum influences. At least as far as I'm able to tell.

You've got a point there!

The intelligentsia's job is to interpret, not to "serve". Their job is to read trends both in the larger world and with the folks that they represent and show the relationship between the two. IE "this is what's happening, this is what's influencing what is happening". Anything else is just not "on" ...attempting to dictate mores leads to resentment and backlashes, interpreting without being in touch leads to "angels on the head of a pin" disconnected nonsense. At least, that's how this uneducated knob sees it...

Even active participation has a limit to its' effectiveness. To mangle Murrow "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are more influential than when it reached only to the end of the bar." I obviously mean Lindens; but it's just as true when applied to what goes on in-game as well. What's written in the forums tends to have little impact on the broader in-world community. Very little discussed here effects the people camping, hitting gachas or assembling their "best in contest of the day" outfits...

Please wake me up when we get to the "fun" part of the proceedings... Honestly, and this might be inappropriate sentimentality (ie rose colored glasses) speaking, but it seems to me that things were a lot more fun pre-mesh. If nothing else because people could be shooting the ***** and then just whip together some wacky ephemeral build that had nothing to do with anything but what they'd been talking about. I mean injokes and things. As mesh upped the barrier-to-entry (skill needed, time needed, upload costs) it feels like SL (and Opensim) has lost the majority of that "wacky"/"because we can" fun energy that it used to have. SL is now srs bsns and srs bsns sux

Ooo! Ooo! Do Plurk next!

Or, as Todd Rundgren put it:

Oh dear god yes it does hahaha!

I had to look up "lumpen" to make sure I was using it correctly. The defination I found, which I think is "close enough" was: Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class." In modern usage, it is commonly defined to include the chronically unemployed, the homeless, and career criminals. From Wikipedia See also, "Blingtard" 😈

Like being a lady or a Dominant; if you have to tell people that you are...you probably aren't. Personally, I wouldn't look for smart folk in groups labeled smart folk. I'd figure out what smart folk do (readings? literature? historical persuits?) and see who consistently turns up at those events... Then again, maybe that's why I'm not one of them; well that and my lack of skill and education of course...