That’s the hate.

And I step, and I say: stop the hate. And that what is being proferred to us as “better” is in fact saccharine kitsch. And I know I’m right about that.

There are tons of better machinimas about there with far greater skills and aesthetics. But those aren’t referenced here. Because what SL Booster Number One is doing here is running a “let’s all get happy about SL and not be negative” Public Service Message here.

I wish Second Life was real.

I wish we had real culture.

I wish we had real cultural critics.

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/05/carter-liveoak-bans-me-from-heron-island-still-banned-at-luskwood.html

What other tripe. You had your freedom of expression. And, um, now it’s my turn, and I’ve had mine. One doesn’t cancel out the other. Can you bear it? Or is it always “freedom of expression for me, and not for thee” with you?

So of course, I’ve done nothing whatsoever to “stop” your freedom of expression; to say “you can’t have it”; or to somehow even “place a chill on it”. Again, what *utter tripe*. I’ve merely said your art is bad art; your idea is a bad idea; and I’m right about that.

It’s my conviction, and you’ll have to live with it; that’s what freedom of expression and tolerance *are*. I think you are wrong, and your idea is bad, because I think it is false and a lie; you bash on what you see as “low culture” in SL; you hate on sex or drama or cheap malls or whatever you find “non-aesthetic,” but then…your own message is hollow and shallow. You can’t seem to define yourself in any way except by hating on something else, invoking something else. That is not beauty. That is not art. That is propaganda.

No, I will not be “more comprehensive and less hurtful”. Why? Have you no concept of what criticism and dissent are all about? are you such a wilting flower that you can put out this *kitsch* and provoke us all to weep big silicon tears in our artificial life, and then not be able to take it when someone says, “No, I won’t. I refuse.”

I have no interest in meeting you in world WHATSOEVER. What a tribal affectation! As if you can meet with someone, and make their actual genuine real point of view “go away”! As if it is based merely on “anger”. It isn’t. It’s based on a sharp, penetrating realization that you are making shallow kitsch, and that the only way you can tart up this display is by banging on sex, drama, money. For shame. You are merely more of the same.

Honestly it is fully *despicable* and totally *dishonest* intellectually — and perhaps you have no pretentions of being an intellectual, and that’s the problem! — to say “Let me have a little freedom” as if *disagreeing* with you takes away your freedom. It doesn’t. Deal with it. Grow up. The world is not the Singularity. You do not own it. I am not a gadget.

and its been the way LL has been from day one.

btw- read online about the “artist” who treid to buy an IPAD at the apple store with cash…600usd.. and was refused.

Apple wont sell to those with cash.. only a credit card/debit card…

Apple like Linden, con artists.. not artists.;)