Quote from: RE on Dec 21, 2023, 02:28 PMSo the question is, besides complain about the fact it's hard to find us, what do you propose to do about it?  Start an email chain letter maybe?  Whatever it is, from my end it has to cost $0 and take no more than 15 min of point and click linking per day.

Complain is not the right word.  With the comprehension of the reality comes disgust, but I let it go.  Nothing I can do about it.  A couple of decades ago I would be ranting about how this prevents me from changing the world or some such.  Now I know better.  Currently the world does not want to change.

The way change happens is when a critical mass of people sees change as an individual benefit to themselves.  Then like a spark into dry grass a wildfire can start.  A chain reaction of individual gut decisions leading to mass action. 

But a wildfire can't start in wet grass no matter how hot a spark.  This is our current situation.  We live in wet grass.  Two proxy wars that the US is not directly bleeding in, and the aftermath of the COVID drama makes people dis-interested in the outside world.  Everybody is hunkered down now trying to do the best they can with their own personal circumstances.  Nobody sees any personal benefit from rocking the boat.  Yet.

If the Zeitgeist of America changes, we may become very popular without doing anything different than we do now.  If people feel a benefit from coming here, they will come.  That benefit will happen when  the general public becomes interested in collapse.  As things are, there is no benefit people feel from a visit here.  Currently a visit here is for personal edification only.  The feeling of no benefit does not depend on the quality of what we do entirely.  A visitor's reaction to being here depends on the particular social atmosphere a visitor marinates in.  If we give a takeaway that other people find interesting and can share with others in their lives, a visit here will feel worthwhile.  Then many visits we will have. 

We should keep doing what we are doing and not worry about how many visits we have.  When the grass dries our spark will be hot enough.  When more shit hits the fan the public will get interested.  Our current situation is temporary.  We are hard to find, but not completely invisible.  That could change.