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Victor D. Sandiego's avatar

Thanks for the article Ken and I hope we can have a picnic some day. Oh shit, I just used a forbidden word. Picnic. Supposed to say Outdoor Eating. Sometimes I want to weep for the passing of common sense and the arrival of such fragility. People are strong. Or at least they can be. We have way too many warriors battling words instead of problems. It seems they won't be satisfied until everything is ground down to a fine powder of bland.

Keep pushing back. We have words for a reason. They mean things. The language is rich (and that's probably a no-no because classism or something) and if you dig hard enough you can probably find some frail excuse to forbid a word, but even if something does evoke an old memory we aren't comfortable with, so be it. It's an opportunity to rise above. To learn. To grow. Avoidance is not the answer.

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Magan's avatar

Hello, I found you through the Discord server, and I think that I am here to stay.

This is a very important point to make, and if we do not fight for our gods given rights now, then our children will never know that they existed.

When will you be posting a "memory hole review" or "memory hole rewards" post? I want to hear more about the power of words, which ones we have lost, what they meant, and the implications of their disappearance.

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