The Fear of Anarchy (Persons Lacking Self Control)

Clickford, Steven M.

This isn’t your run of the mill, bloggy posts about my life. I know people don’t care about my emotions. I know people are quick to judge me. Those people could care less. But I care. 2020 was destruction of various personality types that would degrade in only 10 years, to only loose it in less than 12 months.

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The Lack of Joy with Email

Clickford, Steven M.

I used to love email. I seriously thought it was more professional, more methodological and more formal and more meaningful than text/SMS or chat/IM, etc.

Other groups of people who either do not respect the medium or have given email a bad name.

I thought owning a BlackBerry was cool, but one of the big flaws was I couldn’t have full IMAP email, then I went onto the iPhone in December 2011 and realized how cool it was to have an entire inbox on the palm of my hand like I could on my desktop. (POP3 is perfect for small email servers or the ol days of dialup, where once it downloads onto the client, it “pops” away off the server, is the non technical way to describe it.

But with everything, joy disappears. The alleged honeymoon period lasted a decade plus.

It wasn’t necessarily the tech, but the people on the other end. Apparently I showed too much love to email that people took advantage of it.

In the last year it got worse. People in professional circles would send me longwinded emails with up to twenty sentences per paragraph. The biggest pet-peeve was the excessive, liberal use of High Priority, and was used completely indiscriminately. It was more of “Look At Me, Smell my ugly Pits! I am so great you must drop everything and you’ll get back to me!” Worse was professionals would accidentally send out emails; with the failed attempt to recall emails –  assuming I am an Exchange shop (of which I am not), and that the email would magically disappear. Do these people realize no one is using Outlook in the masses as much?  In fact I haven’t used Outlook in years! I still liked the overall Outlook interface; but do not support the O365 approach.

I also had clashed with the millennials, and intra-generation fights.  One former professional was so overwhelmed of a 2 page email, despite it being properly written with appropriate sentences per graphs and it being outlined. Younger people today treat email like SMS or chats; I find that alarming because this leads to a culture of inappropriate communications and if you mix Slack-talk in email, it can really bite you if a discovery is required. I think chat-like emails are more apparent then than back in the 90s or early 00s by boomers and Gen Xers.

The biggest pet-peeve was the excessive, liberal use of High Priority, and was used completely indiscriminately. It was more of “Look At Me, Smell my ugly Pits! I am so great you must drop everything and you’ll get back to me!”

Oh the multi-thread replies… that was the worse. If developments occurred over the weekend, I had “professionals”; would literally react to every reply. If say there was an instance where I had  threads, both were responsive replies, one was a correction to the other, the person would still react to all three and personalize each one. This individual was under high stress and was known in circles for being a chain-smoker. The job didn’t need to be high-stress to begin with.

The joy is no longer. There is no sense of happiness as much as I used to. This isn’t because my responsibilities changed; it’s the other groups of people who either do not respect the medium or have given it a bad name.

Domain Changes

Clickford, Steven M.

We are recommending clients and customers to visit clickfo.me as the new domain going forward.

WHY THE CHANGE?

Due to change in relationship statuses, the clickford.net domain will no longer be part of the Clickford Media chain of service as it will be someone else’s property.

WHEN WILL THE CHANGE OCCUR?

Sometime in 1Q 2020

WHERE DO I CONTACT?

Any existing user at clickford.net can be able to receive emails from clickfo.me today. Most email handles should be the same and are seamless. Since December 1st, both domains will interoperate till a cutover of an anticipated date. Tentative plans is the domain will continue for 90 days until the end of the quarter.

WHAT’S CLICKFO.ME?

An even shorter domain for Clickford Media Services

Presidant

Clickford, Steven M.1 Comment

I intentionally misspell the office of the President of the United States. It’s intentionally to describe the person or the person in the most highest executive that has a more managerial or dictatorship type of operational style. Given the tense nature of our country in recent years, it’s more satire than being very literal.

Recently the office tends to manage cabinets, or make the office more complex. This type of style can also show a lack of empathy of other’s sufferings of their misdeeds of judgement, particularly on civil unrest and violence, or worse pandemics. Presidants I’ve noticed tend to avoid the issues and try to run away by showing less empathy from those very same misdeeds of judgement.

I have used this language statically for a number of years since our country’s governable style has changed drastically and multiple of men behind that office in D.C.

I phonetically say it as pres-i-d-ant.

I prefer to not refer to the office as such unless we have someone more presidential in the future.

Demagoguery

Clickford, Steven M.

[Wikipedia Link banned by Facebook…]

A demagogue /ˈdɛməɡɒɡ/ (from Greek δημαγωγός, a popular leader, a leader of a mob, from δῆμος, people, populace, the commons + ἀγωγός leading, leader)[1] or rabble-rouser[2][3] in contemporary usage is a leader who gains popularity by exploiting emotions, prejudice, hatred, and ignorance to arouse the common people against elites, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation.[1][4] Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.[5] Demagogues frequently present themselves as populists, to the point where “populism” itself has now acquired a negative connotation.

Historian Reinhard Luthin defined demagogue as “…a politician skilled in oratory, flattery and invective; evasive in discussing vital issues; promising everything to everybody; appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public; and arousing racial, religious, and class prejudices – a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses. He has for centuries practiced his profession of ‘man of the people’. He is a product of a political tradition nearly as old as western civilization itself.”[6]

Demagogues have appeared in democracies since ancient Athens, where the word did not originally have a negative connotation. They exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: because ultimate power is held by the people, it is possible for the people to give that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population.[7] Demagogues usually advocate immediate, forceful action to address a crisis while accusing moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness or disloyalty. If elected to high executive office, demagogues typically unravel constitutional limits on executive power and attempt to convert their democracy into an authoritarian system, even a dictatorship.

This is what America is up against since the days following Election Day.

If you dispute this as fact; then there is something fundamentally wrong with you.