AMENADIEL: So what happened?
LUCIFER: It was terrible, brother.
AMENADIEL: No. I meant Mom.
LUCIFER: Didn't you get my text?
AMENADIEL: What do you mean? The string nonsensible emogies? Fire, sword, doughnut, spaceman, clock, dancing lady, flashlight, thumbs up? How am I suppose to know what that means?
LUCIFER: I ignited the flaming sword, used it to cut a hole in space and time, Mom's light flooded through it, and then it closed up behind her. All good!
AMENADIEL: Mom? Mom is ... Mome is gone?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

I am grateful for eurotrib. I am grateful that it is up and running after all these years with the tacit agreement of its correspondents to hear out to the extent common courtesy allows for all their idiosyncrasies.

I have, of course, "tried out" a few other internet exchanges(English-language domains)and am sad to confirm, for all the lip-service paid to transparency and "marginalized voices", actual tolerance for that is dissipating apace.

Apart from generalized paranoia attributable to the GWOT  and increasingly arcane "troll" defenses, I'm left to wonder if curiosity and indeed conversation are a lost skills.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.