Activism

Ouch on Backwaterreport.com by Carmon. [dead site now 2024]

In the January issue of   Chronicles, Chilton Williamson, Jr. has some disdainful words for most activists…”All of us are familiar with the activist in one cause or another, whose entire life is spent visiting websites, copying and posting links, e-mailing pre-drafted faxes, now and again attending a meeting of like-minded people”or differently-minded ones, in which case the aim is to infiltrate or demonstrate, as the case may be…”

ME: I am not that.

Here’s another word to add to your ever-changing lexicon: slacktivist. This person is kin to the one mentioned by Mr. Williamson, but exerts far less physical and emotional energy. His form of activism assuages his conscience, though both his conscience and his backside could probably use a serious workout.

ME: Neither am I that.

I rarely comb the web for “stuff”. I purely just visit sites that I go to on and off, or ones I run into while searching for this or that. I don’t forward “activist stuff” via email, and rarely receive one from anyone else. I only write about a topic here or there on my blogs. Like on THIS blog I am now writing about political things mostly here instead of other places, for instance, but not as an “activist” but as a person who writes about anything I might come into contact with, so this isn’t a political site, just my “ME side of me” site, the part of me that is “intellectual and personality” I also talk about movies here, and maybe music, books, stuff. Stuff that I feel odd putting on my “personal family site”. I say “ODD” since it’s my 4-year-old son’s favorite word this week. 🙂

It’s hard to dicotimize one’s mind to have more than one blog, to keep topics separate, etc. But I’ve been doing that since I had a blog, having other sites already. All of them ME, but different parts of ME. It is hard to split thyself into parts, but I have purposed to do a better job at it of late.

I am therefore relieved to read Carmon’s post about the two kinds of activists out there, and know that I am neither one! 🙂

I must say, I’ve NEVER considered myself an activist for anything. I just hold strong opinions on things. I just sell the things I love and believe are truth. 🙂

So the one thing I’m doing at times is responding to something on another site, that will often be something that THEY are responding to from a different site in the first place. It’s a fun way to generate a post. But backwaterreport has no comment system, so they may not know I am responding to them here.

That’s life on the web!