Guardian Unlimited

I just received a warning (yet again) from Guardian Unlimited for a post I put on their talkboard.

Usual crap, from idiot moderators.

But it's an interesting thing, the whole business of publishing when you have someone else with editorial control. I mean, the thing is that you can't actually really explore what you want to say, because you can't go into any "grey zone", for fear of being banned: of essentially having your voice taken away.

That's the beauty of Blogging - assuming, of course, that there isn't someone who decides to pull the plug on the blog. We are, of course, just as dependent on the whims of others that this wonderful electronic media will remain to share thoughts and expression of self.

But I've had enough of GUT.

There are way too many idiots on it. Too many adolescents, too many infantile thinking people who aren't in the slightest bit enlightened.

Sure, there are some good people who post there. But they're in the minority.

So I let go of GU.

Incidentally, the reason I got the warning was that I used the same joke that Homer Simpson used in an episode of The Simpsons, when he suggested that Canada was gay.

GU has no sense of humour. At least, they demand that a sense of humour has to be what they think it shoud be.

All that means is that The Guardian practices nothing more and nothing less than propagandic techniques towards its readership. It uses a form of mind control no different to the kind of NewThink that Orwell talked about in 1984.

I loathe political correctness. It's condescending, stifling, and paralysing.

The finest literature will offend someone. Anything, always, will affect someone in some adverse way. But the idea of being "offended" by words is something that only a mature mind can understand, and the editorial people at GU - or at least those who run the talkboards - really don't have mature or logical minds, and I don't think they want people to, either.

Britain runs on infantile thinking. It's there in newspapers like The Sun and The Mirror, and it's still there, although more cleverly disguised, in newspapers like The Guardian.

Shame, because The Guardian has some good qualities, but the condescension thing - which is rife in British middle class - is something I detest and won't accept any more.

So ta ta, Guardian Unlimited. Yours could be such a good website if you only got yourself some better moderators.

But maybe you want morons. Who knows? People like a bit of a gossip, after all. And maybe that's GUT's main function, rather than being a real place to communicate between adults.

But hey! There aren't many adults around, are there?

And it's a pissing bore being the only one!