Fighting Facebook

ATTRACTING READERS has never been the first priority of this website. The purpose here has always been writing for the sake of writing, for the enjoyment of it. Being published, indeed being able to self publish is a great and rare privilege of the twenty first century, of the computer age, for people lucky enough to have lived long enough to remember typing on an old Underwood manual. Being able to push a button and have my essays published online, and thus all over the world, is a great opportunity I must honestly admit I never dreamed I would have, until about twenty years ago. Like a dog licking its won genitals, I write and publish essays because, well, I can. its fun to keep track of teh readership, which is worldwide, and to wonder what might or might not attract people. The Truthless Reconciler is quite popular in some countries, not so much in others. Several months ago I got a Facebook account, mainly out of curiosity. I was skeptical about whether I would like Facebook, based on what I had heard about it. I ended up liking it, gradually. for me Facebook became a way of spreading left wing political propaganda and anti-Trump messages, and to promote this website. Eventually I started putting a link to it on the Facebook posts so interested people could simply slick on the link, and go straight to The Truthless Reconciler. The plan didn't last very long. One day I tried to post a link, and got a message saying: "Facebook cannot post this link because it goes against community standards. If you think it does not go against community standards, let us know". Exactly that. Well, although I have not yet let Facebook know that this website most certainly does not go against community standards, but I can assure you I fully intend to, and will, very soon. I can only speculate that at least one person found one of or several of the essays offensive, in that they made disparaging remarks about conservative, or conservative Christians, or conservative evangelical Christian Trump supporters. Most of the disparaging remarks made here are against Trump supporters, and will continue to be. In a sense, this is a great honor, to be tagged by Facebook as unacceptably offensive. Rather like having one's books burned by Hitler. Facebook, of all people. Maybe Facebook should focus on its own internal corruption, and leave my poor little old website alone. Free speech, freedom of the press, against the big, all powerful, dehumanizing corporate power structure. You gotta love it.