Well, no, I'll never leave the cause itself. I'll never stop working in that regard. I appreciate your kinds words, though.
The realization sometimes presents itself, however, that one wastes valuable energy becoming preoccupied by those who signed a contract to work with you in synergy, yet choose...and make no mistake, it is a choice..to work against the defined function of our site and often times at the site's expense in terms of validity. Admittedly, however, I lack the self-control to not be bothered by it.
Guideline 6 comes to mind here...
6) Do not disrupt Mission-supporting activism efforts.
- Attempts to undermine the value of electoral politics or the legitimacy of the US constitution.
Now, I spend a great deal of my time debating these people who make it their mission to work against that.
It's a waste of my time and it's a waste of yours. It's noise. And it has become dominant noise, unfortunately. And there is no way that we're going to be able to educate in any functional manner if we have to fight our own in defense of our site mission in the process. What's worse, we can't be taken seriously by any passer-by because when we do try to work toward the site mission, we get some dolt posting a meme of a unicorn dragging his ass with rainbow colored feces for the simple fact that he disagrees with the constitution. When people see stuff like that, we don't get taken seriously as a whole. And we become misrepresented literally by troll tactics.
Until we can get a hold on stuff like that, really, the best thing to do is to take off and work elsewhere and consider coming back once the wrecking balls have been cleared. A site mission and any guidlines can never prove to be of any value unless there exists loyalty to them in synergy. By the simple fact that we agree to these terms when signing on yet many observably choose to act in a contrary, opposing, way, should indicate that we aren't doing a very good job at securing our own mission.
So, that's what I mean by that. Though, it does become addicting to the point that one ends up containing himself in no beneficial way.
Daniel had mentioned something recently that is very important and definitive of where we actually are at this point. It's about education. It's about frequency. That's key right now. Unfortunately, it's becoming a redundant chore, at least on RPF, because many of our supposed peers make it impossible. The namesake is more often misrepresented than represented. And we let them, unfortunately, by th very fact that libertarianism permits for them to be present and to publicly try to make asses out of people who, in accordance with the site mission, value electoral politics and the legitimacy of the US constitution through application as well as education.
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