HISTORICAL CORRECTION AFTER TIME OFF

After nine days away I need to post a historical correction.

It seems like the right time since I can look at visitors and break down traffic without posts.

Turns out I get hits on boomerpdx whether I post something new, or not.

Call me disappointed. My audience is automatic, which means bots, robots, and AI.

Here I am, a humble blogger working with the tools I’ve got at my disposal, and it turns out I’m also disposable?

You might read the personal ‘disposable’ part and think to yourself, ‘what’s new?’

I could take a year off and probably keep up the same level of engagement.

So why bother writing? Why continue when most people I know agree that writing time is a waste of time?

If it’s not for money, why would anyone bother writing a blog like boomerpdx?

After a week and a half off the screen, with a week of it off-grid with no wifi, no cell service, and left to my own devices, I’ve learned a few things.

 

The Danger Of Learning A Few Things

When you consider yourself a writer, and do writer things like write on a regular basis, non-writers are suspicious of what you’re doing with your time.

They can’t fathom the idea of sitting quietly without interruption, without staring at a screen for fifty-nine seconds of every minute.

If it’s not entertainment, banking, or in some way showing a path to a pot of gold, what is going on?

Click the link to see Marvin Gaye explain it. Or not.

What’s going on is a continual reminding, call it a warning, for people asking why, why, why, things turn out bad for them their whole lives.

People want to know why they’ve been sidelined, forgotten, ignored.

The same people who sideline, ignore, and forget anyone who don’t look like them, or sound like them, want to know why they’re getting the same treatment.

They feel forgotten at the gas pump, forgotten at the grocery store, and get a sinking feeling from those they champion that they’re no better than anyone else.

It happens when you hear promises that sound too good to be true, and they turn out too good to be true.

Not only that, but they ignore early promises that proved too good to be true.

Now I’m confused? Nooooo.

Instead, I’ll break it down for my bots that need a historical correction.

 

Television people study viewing habits and work to make shows that match advertisers with their content.

The Hollywood Reporter keeps track.

So does NPR:

 

Attracting 28 million viewers, the April 2004 season finale was the most popular show on television that week.

According to opinion polls conducted by Gallup, when Trump flirted with a presidential run under the Reform Party ticket in 1999, the percentage of respondents who saw him as “favorable” declined precipitously: from 41 percent to 33 percent in less than a month.

But in 2005, one year after The Apprentice debuted, Trump clocked in at 50 percent.

 

Campaign people looked at the numbers, did the analytics, and groomed their candidate accordingly.

Their guy could boast of gunplay on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote, grab women without an invitation, and make them all a load of money.

Most important, it didn’t matter whether he could do the job or not.

 

Living In The Real World

As American citizens we have the power to change the relationship with our government at the ballot box.

In other words, we can vote in fair elections with the expectations of our votes being counted.

Our vote doesn’t mean we get to avoid taxes. Don’t pay and see how the works out.

Our vote doesn’t mean we can hold ourselves above the rule of law. Do the crime, do the time.

Our vote doesn’t mean we can walk up to an elk for a closer look without getting some of that elk business.

Vote your conscience, vote your pocketbook, vote for your family’s benefit and raise your expectations.

Mid-term elections decide which direction things will be headed for the next two years.

If you’re satisfied with current events, costs, and threats against the free press, vote accordingly.

 

PS:

People with no experience in the wild see elk differently than an outdoorsman.

They may approach that elk and find out why there’s a warning.

It’s the same with an electorate. Ignore the warnings at your own cost.

 

PSS:

Last century a president emerged with the goals of helping Americans find better lives.

He was called a traitor to his class.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was that president through the Great Depression and WWII.

Instead of trickle down economics depending on the good will of the wealthy to help out, he skipped that part and went right to the people with his plans.

America still has people willing to make a difference to others with less than them, but first there’s a clean-up on Aisle-A-Lago.

Vote for soap and water, vote for the big broom and dust bin, vote like you’ve lived with the specter of misguided manliness long enough.

Can you do that?