There now seems to be some form of ’spam blog’. I got a message from one of these creeps the other day. I note that the top 2 countries for creating and sending spam are the USA and Russia. Two countries with no record of fair elections, a horribly violent underclass and very little in the way of radical social democracy. In both countries there is endemic drug and alcohol abuse.  What does that tell us? That atomised individuals brought up in libertarian and authoritarian environments are more likely to be anti-social? Yes.

So maybe that’s why my post of yesterday didn’t appear here when I expected it to. My computer hi-jacked by a half wit making money from other people’s gullibility. The only thing that stops a gloom of internet depression setting in is that these half-wits are a very small minority – it’s just that they live in societies that allow and enable them to have much more influence than they merit or deserve. So stuck on the ‘right to free speech’ is America that endless unpleasent emails are ‘good for (someone’s business). Although ‘free speech’ in the states isn’t what it seems anyway. It can be extremely costly to say what you like.  And the Russian government faces allegations of widespread corruption, so hardly a surprise that spam comes from there either.

What I did write, that disappeared, was that I’ve been going through all my notebooks and writing up actions and activities. And half way through a long meeting I’d jotted down ‘dysfunctional computing’ and ‘obsessive computing behaviour’. It was a sort of meeting of inner world, private thoughts and public life.

But why would some frat pack tw*t in the United-States-of-America or some thug in the ‘Russian Federation’ care about that? Just look at their respective ‘leaders’ – George Bush and Putin. Role models for anti-social behaviour on a global scale.