Yeah, you're a real (yawn) bad-ass, Barry. You are unable to have a discussion with anyone about anything, and now that this is widely recognized, you attempt to play the only card you have left, supposedly relishing the role of troll, button-pusher, and misanthrope. Did you dress up as Freddy Lenz for Halloween too?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Well, this was certainly an effective troll. :-) But the more I think > about it, the more apt an analogy it is to Fairfield Life, or to > Fairfield itself, and the level of fanboy fanaticism that people who > frequent those worlds often display. > > What I expected when I posted this was for about half the people to > laugh, "getting" that their everyday behavior on FFL really *does* > equate to over-the-top fans of a non-memorable faux pop group. In other > words, I expected folks to be able to laugh at themselves a little. > > Big mistake. T'would seem that this is impossible for many here, who > feel that 1) everything they write is not only a statement of truth but > one that has to be sold to others *as* truth, and 2) that they are so > important that they *have* to be taken seriously. That's *exactly* the > level of fanatical fandom you would find in a real-life group of Monkees > fans. They, too, would be incapable of seeing themselves as they appear > to more...uh...normal people, and incapable of laughing at that image. > Instead, they'd get angry and uptight. *Just* like a few here seem to > have done. > > The thing is, what they're angry about IMO (and all I write on this > forum *is* opinion, not "truth") is that the metaphor just *nails* it. > They've managed to turn a simplistic form of meditation into a religion, > just as they turned "20 minutes twice a day" into several hours a day, > and being unable to talk about anything else, because in their lives > there IS nothing else. Or little else. TMers on FFL have become as > monotopical as fanatical Monkees fans would be, if they still existed. > > Anyway, I thought it was a fun metaphor at the time, and still do. And I > suspect that its accuracy is proved by how strongly some reacted to > having a little fun poked at them. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Sometimes, scanning the list of posts on FFL searching for one that I > > find interesting enough to reply to, I find myself also searching for > a > > metaphor to explain the sense of incredulity I feel at the > > same-old-same-old repetitiveness of it all. This morning I came up > with > > such a metaphor, and it made me laugh, so I'll pass it along. Consider > > this my version of Bhairitu's "The Funny Farm Lounge" metaphor. :-) > > > > Reading FFL is like stumbling across a weird group of fanatical > Monkees > > fans. They get together in cyberspace and endlessly talk about the > glory > > days of Mickey, Davy, Peter and Michael as if they were gods. They > argue > > about which songs were most cosmically important, and the deep > esoteric > > meaning of their lyrics. When other musicians' names come up, the > > Monkees fans get angry and feel that they have to put them down, > because > > however good these other musicians may be, after all they're not the > > Monkees. Some are so fanatical and so enduringly loyal to the Monkees > > that they think anyone who gets caught attending a concert by any > other > > musician should be banned from the Monkees Fan Club for life as the > > heretics they are. But the most amazing part is that the fan club is > > still going strong, still doing all of this every day, 40+ years after > > the popularity of the group they revere jumped the shark. > > > > And all of this for a pop group that wasn't very good in the first > > place. > > >
