No. I was not Mudboy. Mudboy did not destroy it the first time or the second time. Somebody was here for about a year posting a good selection of articles but garnering no participant audience. Mudboy was not the problem. Mudboy's one or two threads could always be ignored if one chose.
Nothing “destroyed” it. People got older, and saw the world simply not going their way, and become discouraged and defeated. There is unrealism at the fringes, and when the world keeps disappointing by not flying off its axis, but still feeling generally shitty nonetheless (being disappointing in a more mundane, grinding, less apocalyptic way), men get tired and just stop. Right now, for example. It’s an election season. Trumps flaws have always been obvious. Doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be president, but he clearly doesn’t walk on water. And Harris? She’s not senile, like Biden; she did well in the debate. She’s had some kooky ideas in the past, but she’s a Democrat, and the ones allowed to become leaders by the billionaires club that owns that party are never going to be allowed to take the country off a cliff. These truths, which are kind of obvious, don’t fit any of our narratives very well. In the past we’ve all gone incandescent in our own special ways, and nothing came of it. Nobody cared. We’re each spinning, charged particles in our own little worlds, while the real world moves on without us. As the French say “The dog barks, the caravan passes.”
