Well, it hasn't been an issue till recently, but I've noticed that a few videos have been submitted to the group lately, and this has forced me to deal with an issue I've mostly been hoping to avoid... And that is, my own current inability to view videos online, due to a too-slow dial-up internet connection.
Yes, that's right folks, the owner/moderator of this esteemed group is unfortunately still wallowing in the 'stone age', when it comes to digital capability, and so, this 'handicap' renders me completely unable to view any videos submitted to the group. Which poses a problem, when it comes to being able to monitor any video content being submitted to the group...
I'm getting a lot of great articles, from a lot of assumedly GREAT people, and I appreciate your time and effort, I really do... and while most of the videos being submitted, are PROBABLY perfectly fine, and in TOTAL conformance with the 'spirit' of this group (whatever that amounts to, I'll leave it to you, to figure it out...) - in all fairness, I feel I'm going to have to refrain from approving videos for the group, (just in case someone is trying to slip some Republican propaganda in there) until my video-viewing-handicaps are resolved... which quite frankly, may or may not ever happen, all things considered... (after all, I'm 'pushing the envelope' a bit already, by trying to maintain a working computer, AND some form of inexpensive internet connection, on an SSI budget, as it is... When you figure into that scenario, the fact that I'm also continuously dealing with malicious hackers trying to shut me down, and/or shut me up, and certain 'malicious elements' in the local community, trying to do something similar, or even worse...it's a wonder I manage to have ANY kind of public voice at all, at this point...)
Did I mention I'm among the ranks of the 'disenfranchised'?? So whether or not I'll ever rise above my current circumstances of near-to-bare-subsistence, remains to be seen...
Will I overcome the obviously deliberate efforts by 'society-at-large' to keep me struggling for bare survival (and therefore too busy to accomplish much else), and too sick with genetically engineered illnesses, to offer much resistance to the preferred social order, or make much meaningful noise against it? Will I ever be able to rise up out of the financial/social disenfranchisement/ostracization I've been imprisoned in, for most of my adult life - to the point where I might be able to actually afford such LUXURIES as 'high-speed internet'? (aka an ability to COMMUNICATE EQUALLY WITH MY PEERS) without agreeing to move into the nearest urban ghetto, for the 'privilege'? (things always come a bit cheaper, when you agree to give up some of your rights and values, and move to the ghettos, of course) At present, I'd have to say, it's not looking too hopeful... Especially when I keep having a marked tendency to NOT keep my mouth shut, (or should I say, my keyboard silent?), & refuse to make any shady deals with the local Crank Cartel, or underground 'gangsta organizations' and the like... (which also pretty much means 'MAINSTREAM SOCIETY', when living in a NAVY TOWN!) I'd most likely be doing SOOOO much better, if I would just show a little more willingness to cooperate with organized crime - but I have this nasty habit of referring back to my CONSCIENCE, you see? And have these funny beliefs in a 'God' who actually holds us accountable for all our life actions, at least at SOME point... And...I have also given up many of my former 'bad habits', simply because I reached a stage in my life and health, where I HAD to... (therefore, there will be no more 'easy social acceptance', based on my willingness to hang a cigarette out of my mouth, smoke a joint, or poison my body with various forms of alcohol...)
If anything, I'm really only expecting things to get much much worse... (In fact, I'm putting together emergency plans, and an emergency survival kit, for the day when some heavily armed DHS sponsored detention squad shows up at my door - with an admitted intention to 'HEAD FOR THE HILLS', and live in a tent, at that point! (if that's even a viable option. I'll consider it nothing short of a 'death sentence' if they ever get me into 'indefinite detention', so even living in a tent in abject poverty and obscurity, is looking better than that...or would it simply be easier to DIE, at this point??)
At which point, I guess someone else should be prepared to take over the group? (Any volunteers?) Cause at that point, I won't even be having a solid roof over the head, or telephone service, much less 'video viewing capability'!
Perhaps it's time to start interviewing possible candidates for the position...
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