Editorial

It's an interesting point of view to take...that a hobby should have as much fire and venom as real life politics...but then, I would suppose, that is the nature of the beast, no?

Ward Dossche is now claiming that a majority of the ZCC is not in favor of last week's post of Bob Satti's election to the IC post. This on the heels of his announcement that Zone 2 would now go 'its own way', since he was not himself elected to the IC post.

Has everyone in Zone 2 been polled about this? Or is Ward simply venting steam to save face?

As well, the lockdown of the ZCC-PUBLIC echo continues...Ward has now directed all nodes carrying the echo to prevent messages that do not come from himself to be kept out of the echo.

How..."democratic" a thinker he is.

Perhaps, those in the "Zone 7" arena may wish to consider becoming their own Zone once again...perhaps.

But, he did send me his "business card" to 'prove' he works where he claims to...I've already seen a variety of digital manipulations of the BMP file, some of which make me wonder what the original did look like.

And, in Zone 1, the "Chaos Wars" continue, as local and regional problems are brought into Zone-wide echoes for both sympathy and attention, but with no real attempts at resolution at either the local or regional levels.

In short, the "scorched earth" tactic I warned of earlier:

"Destroy everything if you cannot control it for yourself."

More's the pity when the well-meaning get caught up in the fervor and don't stop to consider what they've done...or how they've been used, over principles that they would not normally uphold.

So long as the chaos continues, the justification for authority to be maintained is justified...that's a lesson learned long ago and in the history of more nations than in Zone 1 or Zone 2.

The chaos continues to bolster the ravings of those promoting it, to show that the authority is overbearing in their attempts to maintain order...another lesson in elementary political science.

The two sides stop, however, when those who have not taken sides come forward and take action on their own...and often to the tune of having to fight both sides at the same time, each trying to maintain its own agenda.

So...where do we go from here?

Of note, as well, the submission of Macintosh documents from the Virtual Museum Project, will be delayed due to submission as .HQX documents, and should appear next week. Last week's out-of-spec submission from RanD is included this week.

-zf-

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