Fictitious Friends
As part of my job in programming, database applications, and coding, I was asked by several clients to create a Facebook page for them, thus several years ago for this specific function, I joined Facebook. Naturally, I was located by friends and family and asked to be Facebook friends. At one point I began putting up all of my climate change commentaries on Facebook
Now, I only put up a few here and there, preferring to concentrate on Substack subscriptions. However, I wrote the following to all the supposed “friends” that asked me to be their Facebook Friend and then blocked me. The reason, I characterize it in this fashion is that I have never asked anyone to be my Facebook friend.
Some of the most recognizable and discernible censors are not the media, the giant technology companies, or the partisan politicians in either congress or parliament, but rather presumed or ostensible Facebook ‘friends’ and maybe even some adversarial family members. If you are even remotely in opposition to their politics or political ideologies, you may be subject to the chopping block. When one is “blocked”, and their posts no longer go to the “blocker”, the one being blocked receives no notification, announcement, or bull-horned proclamation from the town crier.
Who has been blocked by the blocker is only known to the one doing the blocking. Perhaps that is the way it ought to be, conceivably to alleviate or avert some animosity, hostilities, or accidental hot gravy spillage onto a lap at the Thanksgiving dinner table. The reality though is that many friends on Facebook, especially if one has ‘friends’ in the thousands, are merely acquaintances, or friends of acquaintances, or someone just happening to land on a page – or even malevolent trolls looking for an opportunistic fleecing – attractive unfamiliar young girls in low cut blouses are not genuinely asking to be Facebook friends to exchange thoughts, ideas, and intellectual theories and hypotheses.
However, to so blatantly hate someone external of the friend-to-friend environment, especially in politics, even as feeble as that friendship may be, seems so adolescent. To avoid a friend, perhaps someone you have known for a lifetime because they are not in harmony or lock-step with your partisan dogma or zealot group-think seems rather infantile. Is it apparently easier for some to hide or block another rather than do a few finger scrolls to bypass someone’s commentary if they should find it so incredibly offensive; so distasteful, or alternatively truthful?
And what could be offensive these days? I mean besides everything.
I offend specific people because my commentaries on climate change reprimand leftist politicians and those involved in proponent climate change ideology – if the politician is liberal or progressive and not pushing anthropogenic climate change, you won’t see that name in any of my blogs. If you believe in global governance or socialism fine, but your politicians should not operate under the fictitious mask, guise, or pretext of climate change while unduly scaring all the world’s children and certainly some inexpert adults just to get their unjustifiable utopia into the ballot box.
So, as I said on Facebook my dear friends and acquaintances of which I have been blocked by a number, I remind you that it is not the color of a person’s skin that matters, but rather the thickness of it.