Mountains of Words Man, Sam Knight, Comes to Town

11-24-2015 04:23:44 - Some good information is buried inside mountains of journalism but some worthwhile content | Sam Knight  (The Guardian: The incredible plan to make money grow on trees)

Sam Knight ‏@samknightwrites 4 hours ago
 Retweeted Silas Scarborough

 with the addendum
"Mountains of journalism" is my middle name

There was some surprise he should even see it and my reply was not combative but rather respect he stands up for it and, "Hat tip, sir, please do carry on."

There was no retraction of my previous statement as I stand by my previous contention it's easy to bury a good point under a mountain of words.  Nevertheless, the link was provided and you can judge for yourself as to whether there are too many or even too few words.  Keep in mind King Frederick when he dismissed one of Mozart's operas as having 'too many notes' and the story is probably more apocryphal than real but ... well ... you see what that goes already.

On Facebook, there's the opposite in which people do not argue points but rather the validity of memes, many of which are disingenuous or flat-out duplicitous.  That resulted in the following:

It's only on FB where the only time someone will take a position on anything is regarding whether a meme is stupid.  Yes, these are the same people who seek to determine the future for America.

You can see most days liberals lecturing liberals with memes and Teabillies lecturing each other with memes about how much liberals suck but there's almost no contact between these people of any kind. 

The idea FB will ever be anything more than flatulent wind with its memes is self-congratulatory rubbish.  It's the same reason SL music never went anywhere: much of it is just cover songs.

While Mr Knight will get a salute for standing up, that will not come for the people of Facebook who do not, seemingly, stand up for anything but cartoons.

The obvious is to bail out of Facebook but nothing is ever that simple and my purpose is finding the people who communicate thoughts rather than memes and they do exist.  That's where I found the "Corvus Corvax" poem yesterday:  "Corvus Corvax" - David Walton (audio)

As to any difference in this regard between Facebook and Google+ ... nope.

(Ed:  too many notes, Maestro)

Always the problem, ain't it.