Reply #493: oftentimes, DU gets lost in a sea of its own vain ambivalence

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"We do not wish to see them posted on our website. If anyone posts a kooky tsunami conspiracy theory on our website, we would like to know about it so we can remove it and then investigate the person who posted it as a possible troll."

this kind of politically correct face saving and unwillingness to tolerate the outside view is precisely what drove me away from posting a month ago. at that time i was trying to bring attention to a little known activist in Ohio. the group response was that i had neither place nor credibility within the DU community to bring another persona into their anointed circle of icons "harris, arnebeck, jackson, conyers". i was literally called names and ridiculed.

i am a phd who believes that a massive earthquake caused the tsunami. but i do not know that because knowing entails a far grander epistemological commitment. until such a time as DU admins have access to the metaphysical underpinnings of absolute truth, i belive this sort of sterilization of discussion and opinion is bottom of the barrel and mostly reflects a fearfulness.

there is an "X files" perimeter to the truth and it is one which gives those in the mainstream a sense of what the theoretical periphery of reality looks like. denounciations and the setting up of new standards for heresy for the sake of saving face in light of fox news and the NYT's commentary is a far weaker and pettier position then that of those who may genuinely want to espouse a unfounded and conspiratorial, yet theoretically possible, argument.

yours, eric /goodfield