Message to those self-deluding nutters at the BFC
Mark my words, you are not , any on you, going to get a truer picture of Iraq than you are right now. Nothing. Nada. There will be no spice. There'll be sugar and some things nice. But, no. No spice. Theres an occupation there and attacks daily. Its a minority attacking a majority. But the inner pulchritude of any country will be lost with your constant and never ending stream lined focus on whats scary or whats dangerous about a country.
Meanwhile the world in its entirety has left your kind behind. People are not all that stupid. They know the world is a dangerous place. They are inundated with such reports as daily as you are. Albeit this is the BFC's bread butter and pickles, while acting as if you have some type of exclusitivity amongst your selves as being the ONLY people or posters with temerity to travel to or bring interested in dangerous places on earth its sad to see so much self-deception concentrated in one place.
The difference is people may embolden themselves and may not have the devil may care attitude prevalent at the Flag but will act and do with sublime quiet confidence, whilst all people at the Flag do is engage in their utter yack and banter.
The people of the Black Flag Cafe...make that, the posters of BFC(a-hem cough cough cough heave cough)
are currently engaged in the height and very epitome of self-delusion. And I mean entirely.
Its occasional relief marked with topics away from its focus on its self or canned humour usually contain some vague essence of the hint of danger but nothing so far to indicate it has not strayed so far from its original raison d'etre or reason for being that it has re-claimed a position where danger was the modus operandi. These days the BFC has a moderator who quotes in his signature: I knew violence wasnt the right option...I got it wrong on purpose.
This means the Black Flag Cafe has become a spot for people to feel entertained. It is not a place where people who have a "special angle" on these places that flash in and out of the "news" congregate to openly talk without worry of names or surnames.
Granted if the world in general has become a safe place over the past 6 months to a year, you might think this would be a natural outcome for so many people stuck with so much idle energy to defuse from the news of the day through humour.
Perhaps with this blog I am stuck with the same thing. The difference is in the level of self-awareness.
One post about 32 ways to bite the big one on a construction site receives 123 views and 7 replies.
A post about a new pill to increase sex dive in women while they lose weight? 23 replies and 314 views(and counting). Now I have nothing against the original story at all, or its being posted but for the amount of interest it generates, it clearly indicates the priority level of its regulars.
The whole world is a dangerous place and if you guys think you got some type of corner and angle on it with your formerly little greasy backwater joint catering to people with such proclivities.....you are mistaken.
Theres warriors, theyre are scribes to the field..and then theres the rest and the lot of you ..the equivalent to a group of extras on a film set. Or consider yourselves the moral equivalent of a comedy act where the main performer plys and stacks the audience with his friends to both assuage his ego and try to boost his ratings to promoters.
The original idea, the book itself A Guide to the Worlds Most Dangerous Places was a great premise, but Flaggers have carried it to such extreme that it is not such as a cloyed taste thinking people like myself have with it more than mere distaste. Thanks to so many people whose lack of chagrin goes and in hand with the indifference many people feel. But I guess all in all its a bad time to be from the US.
One day will come when there will be a self help group on a private portion of the web for certain Flaggers who like to target other posters,--..I mean people. It will be to help them stop focusing on themselves and enable them to receive the real life affirming therapy so many of them need. And poster RYP will lead and be group leader.
I t happens. It happens in real life.
Posted by mach1231
at 11:14 AM PDT
cheeky
accident prone
bright
a-ok
irritated
not sure