Oh dear. Yet more micro management.
(Google has interesting points to be made about this term, whether they apply here or not...)
We have an excellent long-standing thread in which a respected RFF member writes about many matters, not overly much about photography, mostly economics, many politically inspired and motivated. He mentions (or did mention, but this has now seemingly ceased, huh) tariffs. Will this be nobbled as well, to please the - well, who knows?
Somehow we will (again) survive this. A few disgruntled members will treat themselves to a vacation, long or short, from the site. Personally I've always thought these 'mini vacations' are most useful as they serve to refresh us and inspire us to return and write better posts.
One thing I do suspect here is, whether disappeared or not, they will all keep reading RFF. Ha!!
I hope all those absentees will eventually return. Especially Boojum, who is by far one of the best posters here for good and intelligent and well-articulated arguments. Huzzah!!
When the absentees have surfed the 'net a bit and discovered how awful most (I'm being polite here) other photo web sites are, they will return A few won't. The latter are often as not the most perceptive and challenging, and they will, at least by me, be missed.
But then in the long run we will all be gone from here anyway. Which seems to defeat my own argument, but it's the way things are. We come, we stay, we linger, we leave.
As I recall Lenin wrote something about how to get your neighbours salami by slicing it one small piece at a time. The neighbour dislikes it but eventually gets used to it. You then go back and slice off yet another piece. This seems appropriate in an analogy about destruction by a thousand small cuts. Which seems the way much of our planet is going...
(Is my last sentence here political? Will I get the flick for having written it? Will the masses be punished by having this thread locked?)
Anyway, all this now written, I will now be off on a long-overdue vacation.
