Welcome Back, My Friends!

Back in October of 2018 I left Facebook for good. There were two reasons: (1) The first was simply that it had become a professional battleground, with a group of so-called evidence-based chiropractors arguing with everyone who held ideas and beliefs different from the ones they held. These should normally have been my allies, but I found myself increasingly at odds with many members because of how they interpreted literature, used information and attacked those with whom they disagreed. In fact, I had been treated worse by some of the members of this group than I ever had with individuals with whom I have profound disagreements. Their moral righteousness and unyielding rectitude were tiring in the extreme; there was always a justification for anything they said or did. In fact, they are simply a fandom, allowing only those people who already agree with them to post and cutting off dissident voices, to the point of requiring what amounts of a loyalty oath to simply post on the group page. (2) The loss of my granddaughter was a profound loss, whose impact will never lessen. At the time that Beatrix was on life support, I went through all the stages of grief that Kubler-Ross identifies. One is bargaining. In this, my emotional side warred with my intellectual side and I felt that if I could just think good thoughts and avoid negativity it would somehow help Bea. This is not rational, and I would not change it for the world. After that loss, I simply felt that the increasing negativity of Facebook contributed nothing to the world and I would do my part to stop adding any additional negativity to the world. This is outside all the issues that FB already faces with data privacy, information sharing and so on. I do not miss it.

I maintained my twitter account. Twitter is not a whole lot better but I can control whose feeds I get- a small number of friends and celebrities and comic-book artists I like, and I rarely post comments myself. But I still need an outlet for my ideas and thoughts. So, I am resurrecting this blog to use it as a personal means of writing about those things that matter to me.

Please consider this an introduction to my writing. Looking forward to sharing my thoughts!

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