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Cake day: November 17th, 2024

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  • Trauma makes people do strange things. Given what his family went through with kidnapping and murder, it’s entirely possible that he started on that road thanks to a sincere desire to never see another person’s child get killed. What emerged from there may easily have started as blaming the people in his life that he saw either trying to push young men to go and die, or that he somehow blamed for the murder of his child. I can’t bring myself to hate the man - his turn from glory to agony was so abrupt that any clear voice in the midst of madness and pain probably seemed like something worth holding onto. It’s amazing what people believe when they’re grieving or traumatized.

    To me, that’s when his death started. The Nazi sympathizer was just a dead man walking, a bereft father of a kidnapped and murdered baby, not the national hero who inspired a dance craze with his aeronautic feat.






  • It’s easy to find fans. It’s impossible to find volunteers. This is the only alternative to what’s been termed “enshittification”, which is just corporatization of general audience media. Only three outcomes exist for media: either it stays extremely small and never gains an audience so that it never exceeds the initial infrastructure, it shuts down because there are never volunteers or enough money in donations to employ anyone, or it becomes corporate and profit seeking in order to employ people and stay live.

    Only the third of those can be defined as being successful, and it is immediately related to the term coined by Doctorow.