2 Days Out Of The Woods

 Jeopardy begins in about 31 minutes.

The host just stepped down because cancel culture found his old podcasts (in which I thought it sounded like he was trying to be "another Howard Stern") and took comments he made out of the context of a wannabe Howard Stern-like show; and so, I'm not even sure the show will come on in about 29 minutes...

I always have thought, every time I think about Steven King; that, first off, his writing is good enough so that, whoever starts reading it, can't put it down, and then passes the finished book off to a friend, telling them they must read it, type of thing.

But, I also have always wondered about what if he hadn't found instant success, and had to live out of a Volkswagon for a while until, maybe his 3rd novel breaks him through.

I picture him in the parking lot of Ponte Vedra Beach, in Florida, when up sauntered the local police of that community of millionaires where almost every house has a golf hole as an extension of its back yard. 

And there would sit Steven in his VW, who would immediately be asked to show ID, etc...

Then, 4 hours later, by flashlight, the cops with his notebooks open on the rooftop of his Jetta, while he sits in the back of the cruiser, with handcuffs poking him in the back, having been charged with "suspicion," while the cops flip pages, and occasionally say; "Look at this; this sick, or what?!" to one another...

Then, Steven needing to sit in jail long enough, so that he can't afford the fee to get the Jetta out of impound "...Well, can I at least get my notebooks out of it?"

And then I think about how he is OK now at this stage of his life. Cops would expect to find creepy and disturbing things in his notebooks now.

Maybe it's going to take Cancel Culture going after Steven King, trying to censure "It" for him to get behind someone starting alternative social media sites.

Facebook that would offer all the same functionality and connected-ness; you could migrate your list of friends, and import your entire history, along with photos and videos and every post you ever posted. The experience would be entirely the same whenever your phone bleeps and there is a message that someone "liked" something you did.

Then we wouldn't have to worry about the politics of the oligarchs that, in a sense became such through luck. There used to be a lot of what Facebook became. There was liveJournal and deadJournal and two dozen more. But, people wanted to be all in one place. They didn't want some of their friends not seeing the funny little video they made because those friends aren't on melodramatic.com.

And so, humans have a desire for community and kind of want the whole world to hear what they have to say; an innate instinct, perhaps.

So, there must eventually be one totally unregulated place, where the regulation is up to the individuals; they can block and unblock at will. But, it's not cool to have things be blocked before they even get to you...

Well, time to see who is hosting Jeopardy tonight....