Why so much wasted effort

A typical example, posting #…….293 in thread "Say What You Want"

http://able2know.org/topic/207004-2

As a response in a contentious interchange between two of our most virulent contributors; well written, carefully reasoned in faultless English, 1044 words (by actual count); which if I a Journ grad and erstwhile writer had undertaken, might have required the better part of an hour

Addicted by the medium I've nonetheless been responsible for many such tirades myself, consuming a morning better devoted to reading the Daily Press or even yardwork. But "Nobody cares what you think," points out my No. 2 Son and of course he's right. But alas here I am once more

(…among so many remarkable folk, who must forgive an 82-year-old Average Clod (me) on the cusp of Alz's, ranting for no apparent purpose, upsetting all here and about, no excuse whatever

It's a compulsion)

Actually of course in the cited case somebody does care, and often in like instances two or three others. But realistically now, who cares about the feelings and opinions of a couple of far-off strangers at a remote website

That's not to denigrate a2k in any way, I for one love the site, eg, it's very valuable, especially to the many ESL who gain through its facility so much valuable insight in the construction of our palaver, not to mention all those news items we might otherwise overpass

But why all the extended vitriol, in a world on the verge of destruction through environmental neglect, overpopulation, a second nuclear war; the wasted effort that might have been put to a so much more constructive end


Incidentally the ESL shouldn't emulate me, my lack of commas, my overuse of the semi, lack of closing stop