Notes on the Strike
Mar. 21st, 2008 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anigoThese are my opinions (or non opinions, as the case may be), and I encourage you to rejoice in yours. I'm just writing mine because I can.
I haven't really been following the saga, I'm afraid. Maybe if I had been I'd want to take a stronger stand, but I haven't and I don't, and there it is. Perhaps it's a case of "...when they came for me, there was nobody left..." but to date all of the issues and implications really haven't affected me. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
You see, the way I see it, I pay for my LJ because I can't abide the thought of having to choose between my user pics. And because I can afford the $25 it costs to be able to do so. This also enables me to keep tabs on my friends and occasionally vent or whine or celebrate - which, truthfully, is all I really want to do.
Perhaps I should be taking up arms for those who can't afford to pay for the service. Perhaps I should be taking up arms for other issues that I haven't been paying attention to. But the thing is, I don't really care. That sounds harsh. It's not supposed to. Because I do care. I care about my friends here. And I like the fact that I have a space to blabber on about this, that, and the other, and that this space allows me to read my friends' blabbering on as well. But the other issues don't affect me. And while I empathize with the situation, I know there are other options out there that do not involve payment, or censoring, or such. Take for example the Pirate Journal. But I also know that, as wonderful an idea as the Pirate Journal is, I keep coming back to this journal. Because I can't find the time to master the layout of another. Because this journal's comfortable. Because I know how to have oodles of user pics and the occasional phone post (which, granted I haven't done). And if I have to pay for it, then I guess I'll do so. Because sometimes it's easier to pay for shite than it is to do the work required. Which I guess is the bane of the current century. It's easier to pay the $1.20/l for gas than it is to figure out and use the public transit system. It's easier to order pizza on the way home from work than it is to make supper once you've gotten home. Ah, money. The lifesaver of the lazy.
God I'm shallow!
In truth, however, I think we do what we need to do to survive. Personally, I think that my life has enough worries in it that I trade off what I need to to get by. I think we all do. I also do know that I'm lucky to be a white woman in a democratic developed country with a good job and a stable family. It's easy to be shallow when you don't have to face ongoing adversity.
YMMV.
I haven't really been following the saga, I'm afraid. Maybe if I had been I'd want to take a stronger stand, but I haven't and I don't, and there it is. Perhaps it's a case of "...when they came for me, there was nobody left..." but to date all of the issues and implications really haven't affected me. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
You see, the way I see it, I pay for my LJ because I can't abide the thought of having to choose between my user pics. And because I can afford the $25 it costs to be able to do so. This also enables me to keep tabs on my friends and occasionally vent or whine or celebrate - which, truthfully, is all I really want to do.
Perhaps I should be taking up arms for those who can't afford to pay for the service. Perhaps I should be taking up arms for other issues that I haven't been paying attention to. But the thing is, I don't really care. That sounds harsh. It's not supposed to. Because I do care. I care about my friends here. And I like the fact that I have a space to blabber on about this, that, and the other, and that this space allows me to read my friends' blabbering on as well. But the other issues don't affect me. And while I empathize with the situation, I know there are other options out there that do not involve payment, or censoring, or such. Take for example the Pirate Journal. But I also know that, as wonderful an idea as the Pirate Journal is, I keep coming back to this journal. Because I can't find the time to master the layout of another. Because this journal's comfortable. Because I know how to have oodles of user pics and the occasional phone post (which, granted I haven't done). And if I have to pay for it, then I guess I'll do so. Because sometimes it's easier to pay for shite than it is to do the work required. Which I guess is the bane of the current century. It's easier to pay the $1.20/l for gas than it is to figure out and use the public transit system. It's easier to order pizza on the way home from work than it is to make supper once you've gotten home. Ah, money. The lifesaver of the lazy.
God I'm shallow!
In truth, however, I think we do what we need to do to survive. Personally, I think that my life has enough worries in it that I trade off what I need to to get by. I think we all do. I also do know that I'm lucky to be a white woman in a democratic developed country with a good job and a stable family. It's easy to be shallow when you don't have to face ongoing adversity.
YMMV.
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Date: 2008-03-21 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-21 08:58 pm (UTC)I mean, I could understand when people went crazy over the censorship issue, or when people's LJ's got deleted without warning or reason...
But the thing is...you can still be here and not have to pay for it.
They didn't shut the doors on poor people.
They didn't even violate their own TOS.
And then they apologized.
I'm having a hard time grabbing a hold of the idea of a problem here.
Maybe it's just me.