well, we’re off track here. the point of this thread is to have an open-discussion (HOW do those get off-track again?) about what kinds of conversations we want to have.
Surely, as an individual who is becoming wild, you want to keep all your tools on the table, you never know when you might need them, which,s trangely enough, kind of makes the case to at least remain aware of the larger culture’s trends, so your communication, in a referrential age, remains relevant.
But to answer your question directly, no, there is no real place for it ‘out there’ but we are ‘in here’, and were are ‘of here’ so those discussions remain valid because if anything, we are ‘keeping it real’ for the one foot that still is in civilization, and our historical self, who was born into civilization.
I think, as much as I annoyed Scout in his thread, it wasn’t about the word, it was about how poorly I communicated my intentions. He and I have had a private discussion on these matters, and when I realized that I missed what he said, that we don’t need elders to go out in the woods and play, all I heard was we don’t need old people bitching at us, I realized, yes, I was the asshole. Because of that, I missed my chance to make my more serious point that working with the worst that primitivism has to offer still has some benefit, and that yes, it’s immature to write anyone off, or say fuck them, and mean it.
So you got to be careful, even important, universal positions are easily drowned out in the ‘pursuit of cool’ (another more sublime cultural referrence).
So, offensive or not, we have a duty to see into what each person is trying to say, well, we have that duty to the original post, and to those we choose to respond, otherwise, you can start your own post and say whatever the hell you want, if you want to say whatever unrelated (or thread-killing related rant) things you have inside of you to comment.
I’m surprised how well people do that at this message board, I think that is probably because of the the amount of people who have come here on ‘referal’, but hey, maybe that’s me, talking out of my ass again. Perhaps I should be surprised, perhaps I should just feel blessed…