"The Biden Admin.Disaster: We can see the obese results of this green food revolution waddling down the aisles of supermarkets and ordering green smoothies and muffins in the food courts.
Green energy will prove a disaster for our economy, and green foods will be a deadly choice for many humans.
for me summery is the limit of my available concentration ... too much info to process in detail... i believe i can extrapolate detail from summery and wise cliches
You cannot even buy decent beer that tastes like beer ("precision fermentation"?)
Shakespeare was a linguistic genius, but he only wrote pieces from existing stories and made sure the roles matched the actors in his company.
I don't much care for Ursula. Huxley was an eugenicist who wrote a utopia in Brave New World that reads as a dystopian novel for everyone in their right mind. Orwell may have had too much guilt after his time in the secret service, but he wrote two good novels before he departed from this world (taken care of?).
for me a true valid cliche ... do your best and leave the rest to the good God... aligory... a farmer prepairs the land for sowing ,sows good seed waters, fertilizer,weeds etc ... but cannot know how it will grow ... cannot know the weather,,, cannot know if disease comes, cannot know the yeald etc... and finally and firstly i ask our heavenly Father for guidance ... dont worry be happy ,good luck ... happy trails
I don't see that there's anything else needed to be stated on your part. The fact that you've gone to the length of explaining your intention for your article - that it needs to be read with care and utmost attention - that's all I need to know in order to try to do it justice in reading it.
I'm not qualified to offer ideas about procedures (for lack of a better word) used when writing, but sentience has always factored in to how I receive anything I read.
I was recently reminded of Mark Twain's statement: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." So the only advice I can offer is, whatever method you choose for presentation, be the lightning!
Can't really add anything of great value, but being as correct and well researched as best you can is a good way to ensure it's spread beyonf Sunstack.
You see, my problem has always been that I am able to use fragmented available data and conjecture regarding its corollaries and whatever it means for the future. I started this site as a farce, which is what my name, "The Source" indicates, but shortly later I realized that I was filling a gap. In a way, I am "The Source," because you can read about consequences of the facts everyone else writes about. I am usually days, weeks, months, or even years ahead. The problem is that hardly anyone can think along with me. I am writing for the three percent of the three percent, and you are apparently part of the tiny community.
You see, I am a deductive thinker. I believe that the whole picture must be presented first, and the details will fall into place after that. Of course, my approach is also inductive, so coming from the details and the whole must meet somewhere in the middle. I also employ vectoring and triangulating sources, based on the objective I believe is assigned by the globalists or whoever else.
Breaking it down to chapters would kill the whole picture. I know, only a few people have the intellectual capacity to process it all, but I don't see that I have a choice. Fragmented thoughts lead to fragmented judgment...
it's simple, Prof Ray- go with Your gut feelings & of course, the advice/admonishments of SheWhoMustBeObeyed...Your Calling sure as hhell isn't that of a fast food joint with picky demands of this/not that...Can You picture audience participation in a performance of a Beethoven Symphony or a Miles Davis gig? As any motor sports guy will tell you, the harder you try to go faster, the lap times get longer.
Ray, this may be just me, but, even though I love Substack and hope it can persist with some integrity for as long as possible, I do find it difficult to read a post for super-comprehension when it is interrupted by a bunch of links, even when those links are essential.
It's just that the interruption in the flow is an interruption in the flow, and disturbs my wee concentration.
And if you are providing maybe two levels of interruption in the form of both footnotes and links, I foresee a slog and possibly a headache. Because I am very interested in the subject, I would probably get through it, BUT I wonder if there is a way you could also provide such a key work in perhaps a PDF document that is formatted in a more conventional and readable way, for instance, footnotes appearing conveniently at the bottom of the relevant page, and I don't really know how you would present all the linked material. . . . In other words, when I come upon something that I'm definitely wanting to sit down and read with concentration, I want to print it out and read it in a way that I could even annotate it. (Not on my phone or computer.) I don't know if that is possible to do in Substack. Maybe you could refer to a PDF or other comfortably readable format being available on a separate platform, like your website, and maybe for a fee! :))
As most of my posts belong together, I try to save time by inserting links to my previous ones. I assume, most of my readers are already familiar with them, and new visitors might as well take a look. For external posts, I usually provide a brief summary, in case the reader doesn't want to read them. That is not always possible, considering the length of the articles in the links. Still, I don't want to be simplistic, either.
I don't put the begging insert into my pieces, because I don't want them to disrupt the reader's attention.
My footnotes usually contain either links that are already known to many readers or are not essential for enjoying the article.
Publishing all the text in a single post would make it several miles long. :)
I also love real footnotes and can't stand end notes, but Substack only provides end notes.
Are you saying adding a .pdf document would be good for a printout? It's a great idea, but Substack is not supporting the feature. I realize there are file depositories on the Web that are even free up to a certain volume, but I haven't tried any of those. Still, it is probably a good idea for me to find out. Charging a few pennies for downloads, as you also suggested I should consider, would even expand the storage capacity. I'll look into that in the next few days.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you find a workable solution! I'm not a blogger or a techie, so unfortunately not going to be much help. But I look forward to sitting in my armchair with no electronic device, with a cup of coffee, reading your awesome piece!
Ray, a great many of your articles are very informative, concise and often the best length to hold focus on the subject you present. If what you are planing publish is long, it can be helpful to summarize first. (Executive Summary) I have found most of your writing very easy to collate and I do consider them on good reflection when I review my own research.
When you find yourself "stalking the truth," it is also important to stalk the "stalker." We are both the Observer and the Observed.
People usually can maintain interest in something if it can be kept straight forward. Yet it is possible to say a lot with very few words, especially if the subject is relevant. You already have a great style of presentation. I hope what I said here helps.
Thank you for your input. I've seen articles with "tables of content," but haven't been able to evaluate how far that method would work.
Obviously, my readers have been used to reading a tidbit every day, perhaps next to their morning coffees. It is I, who is breaking the pattern. I'm sure readers can adjust this one time, if properly warned ahead, which is what I am doing right now. I'm not sure all of them will have the time and the patience.
Simply asking for help is a good start:) It makes the reader part of the transaction. Most marketing schemes are just too overtly transparently fear mongering or wowish in a rumor mongering way. Feeling particularly impotent today, even though it’s pretty calm in the gallery today as I do the end of March accounting and commission figuring. You’ve wetted my appetite with your post :)
We are all paralysed. The world has stopped. None of our old systems work any more. We are waiting for the re-boot. We will pay attention to something that grabs us and drags us into that re-boot. Is what you have to say big enough and novel enough to do that?
So how many "engaged" readers is enough? Consider Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields or the occult "group mind" or "egregore". Maybe the value is in thinking a new idea through and clarifying it. Having readers may be just a bonus.
That's what my wife just told me, but this is a comprehensive piece. Maybe, it would be a good idea to publish it both ways. Still, I haven't seen much success with good authors breaking up their articles, yet other popular authors ("A Midwestern Doctor" comes in mind) don't even disrupt their publications with the begging inserts that I also avoid, publish long articles and have hundreds of "paid subscribers." (Of course, most of those must come out of the black budget, and I am not saying it's the Doctor, but who am I to say?)
I can only offer mundane suggestions. I am not very creative and marketing is not my strong suit.
Clickbait headlines and sensationalist approaches are disdainful IMO. If the information is solid, it will speak for itself and your personal integrity. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear... smth like that.
I would recommend using a powerful, attractive and relevant image to lead the article and posting on Gab.com
When Dr S Gundry’s book about lectins in food was written about 7 yrs ago he chose to entitle the first chapter thus:” It’s Not Your Fault”
Re-the poisonous aspects of some foods
It was catchy not only for its brevity and simplicity but for its appeal to so many who had been medically gaslighted(lit?) for so long.
Thats my thought FWIW.. an article sets itself apart when it sets the reader’s mind up by being so authentically supportive of the reader’s problem. That battle in their mind struggling to be settled.
The asking of your readers in this article, for help, is attractive in a similar way.
Both appeal to my sense of 1) author says i was lied to, and agrees with my disposition and 2) im made to feel there is value in my opinion.
You know all this as a fine writer. I’ve caught myself thinking at the keyboard again...
I agree (read at your own risk) or (what you are about to read will completely change your life forever) then after “reading” your article they might look back over to see what they “missed” because they don’t feel the predicted change at all I find that people nervously grab at the first idea they can relate to and completely miss what is trying to be conveyed Martin Luther king broke through my haze with his resounding baritone repetition All the written words that I had digested still needed the vibrational influence to ignite
It is a problem on my site that I publish too much, but I practice journalism; mostly opinion pieces that still inform, entertain, and inspire. The bad part is that most readers have no idea that most of my old articles will not go obsolete anytime soon.
It's strange you mention "vibration." Quite often, certain topics seem to resonate with the audience or, at least, with the times. It is a problem in my case that I usually publish days, weeks, months, or even years before the topic picks up, and those who become popular don't do much else but repeat what I said before.
I know ahead of the curve Maybe when you see an idea start to be tossed about that you previously had expounded on, republish the link and maybe people will realize that fact And yes vibration is the heart of all matter
"The Biden Admin.Disaster: We can see the obese results of this green food revolution waddling down the aisles of supermarkets and ordering green smoothies and muffins in the food courts.
Green energy will prove a disaster for our economy, and green foods will be a deadly choice for many humans.
Future footpaths will be crowded with mobility scooters and hospitals and care homes will be overwhelmed by unhealthy aging vegans. " https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-greens-are-creating-a-man-made-food-and-health-disaster/
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for me summery is the limit of my available concentration ... too much info to process in detail... i believe i can extrapolate detail from summery and wise cliches
I'm similar to you. Too many details is like too many toppings on a pizza, it no longer tastes like pizza.
I like a basic story and the basic gist of the issue at hand.
Shakespeare or whoever school told me was a great writer did not impress me.
But I did enjoy reading Orwell, Huxley, and Ursula LeGuin!
You cannot even buy decent beer that tastes like beer ("precision fermentation"?)
Shakespeare was a linguistic genius, but he only wrote pieces from existing stories and made sure the roles matched the actors in his company.
I don't much care for Ursula. Huxley was an eugenicist who wrote a utopia in Brave New World that reads as a dystopian novel for everyone in their right mind. Orwell may have had too much guilt after his time in the secret service, but he wrote two good novels before he departed from this world (taken care of?).
for me a true valid cliche ... do your best and leave the rest to the good God... aligory... a farmer prepairs the land for sowing ,sows good seed waters, fertilizer,weeds etc ... but cannot know how it will grow ... cannot know the weather,,, cannot know if disease comes, cannot know the yeald etc... and finally and firstly i ask our heavenly Father for guidance ... dont worry be happy ,good luck ... happy trails
I don't see that there's anything else needed to be stated on your part. The fact that you've gone to the length of explaining your intention for your article - that it needs to be read with care and utmost attention - that's all I need to know in order to try to do it justice in reading it.
Thank you for your understanding. :)
I'm not qualified to offer ideas about procedures (for lack of a better word) used when writing, but sentience has always factored in to how I receive anything I read.
I was recently reminded of Mark Twain's statement: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." So the only advice I can offer is, whatever method you choose for presentation, be the lightning!
Can't really add anything of great value, but being as correct and well researched as best you can is a good way to ensure it's spread beyonf Sunstack.
You see, my problem has always been that I am able to use fragmented available data and conjecture regarding its corollaries and whatever it means for the future. I started this site as a farce, which is what my name, "The Source" indicates, but shortly later I realized that I was filling a gap. In a way, I am "The Source," because you can read about consequences of the facts everyone else writes about. I am usually days, weeks, months, or even years ahead. The problem is that hardly anyone can think along with me. I am writing for the three percent of the three percent, and you are apparently part of the tiny community.
Post it in Chapters.
*Chapters* has a less casual connotation.
You see, I am a deductive thinker. I believe that the whole picture must be presented first, and the details will fall into place after that. Of course, my approach is also inductive, so coming from the details and the whole must meet somewhere in the middle. I also employ vectoring and triangulating sources, based on the objective I believe is assigned by the globalists or whoever else.
Breaking it down to chapters would kill the whole picture. I know, only a few people have the intellectual capacity to process it all, but I don't see that I have a choice. Fragmented thoughts lead to fragmented judgment...
it's simple, Prof Ray- go with Your gut feelings & of course, the advice/admonishments of SheWhoMustBeObeyed...Your Calling sure as hhell isn't that of a fast food joint with picky demands of this/not that...Can You picture audience participation in a performance of a Beethoven Symphony or a Miles Davis gig? As any motor sports guy will tell you, the harder you try to go faster, the lap times get longer.
I love your analogies! :)
Ray, this may be just me, but, even though I love Substack and hope it can persist with some integrity for as long as possible, I do find it difficult to read a post for super-comprehension when it is interrupted by a bunch of links, even when those links are essential.
It's just that the interruption in the flow is an interruption in the flow, and disturbs my wee concentration.
And if you are providing maybe two levels of interruption in the form of both footnotes and links, I foresee a slog and possibly a headache. Because I am very interested in the subject, I would probably get through it, BUT I wonder if there is a way you could also provide such a key work in perhaps a PDF document that is formatted in a more conventional and readable way, for instance, footnotes appearing conveniently at the bottom of the relevant page, and I don't really know how you would present all the linked material. . . . In other words, when I come upon something that I'm definitely wanting to sit down and read with concentration, I want to print it out and read it in a way that I could even annotate it. (Not on my phone or computer.) I don't know if that is possible to do in Substack. Maybe you could refer to a PDF or other comfortably readable format being available on a separate platform, like your website, and maybe for a fee! :))
Thank you for your ideas.
As most of my posts belong together, I try to save time by inserting links to my previous ones. I assume, most of my readers are already familiar with them, and new visitors might as well take a look. For external posts, I usually provide a brief summary, in case the reader doesn't want to read them. That is not always possible, considering the length of the articles in the links. Still, I don't want to be simplistic, either.
I don't put the begging insert into my pieces, because I don't want them to disrupt the reader's attention.
My footnotes usually contain either links that are already known to many readers or are not essential for enjoying the article.
Publishing all the text in a single post would make it several miles long. :)
I also love real footnotes and can't stand end notes, but Substack only provides end notes.
Are you saying adding a .pdf document would be good for a printout? It's a great idea, but Substack is not supporting the feature. I realize there are file depositories on the Web that are even free up to a certain volume, but I haven't tried any of those. Still, it is probably a good idea for me to find out. Charging a few pennies for downloads, as you also suggested I should consider, would even expand the storage capacity. I'll look into that in the next few days.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you find a workable solution! I'm not a blogger or a techie, so unfortunately not going to be much help. But I look forward to sitting in my armchair with no electronic device, with a cup of coffee, reading your awesome piece!
Ray, I don't know what I could say that hasn't been said, but I assure you, brother, I will take it seriously.
Edwin
I know, you will. :)
Ray, a great many of your articles are very informative, concise and often the best length to hold focus on the subject you present. If what you are planing publish is long, it can be helpful to summarize first. (Executive Summary) I have found most of your writing very easy to collate and I do consider them on good reflection when I review my own research.
When you find yourself "stalking the truth," it is also important to stalk the "stalker." We are both the Observer and the Observed.
People usually can maintain interest in something if it can be kept straight forward. Yet it is possible to say a lot with very few words, especially if the subject is relevant. You already have a great style of presentation. I hope what I said here helps.
Thank you for your input. I've seen articles with "tables of content," but haven't been able to evaluate how far that method would work.
Obviously, my readers have been used to reading a tidbit every day, perhaps next to their morning coffees. It is I, who is breaking the pattern. I'm sure readers can adjust this one time, if properly warned ahead, which is what I am doing right now. I'm not sure all of them will have the time and the patience.
Simply asking for help is a good start:) It makes the reader part of the transaction. Most marketing schemes are just too overtly transparently fear mongering or wowish in a rumor mongering way. Feeling particularly impotent today, even though it’s pretty calm in the gallery today as I do the end of March accounting and commission figuring. You’ve wetted my appetite with your post :)
We are all paralysed. The world has stopped. None of our old systems work any more. We are waiting for the re-boot. We will pay attention to something that grabs us and drags us into that re-boot. Is what you have to say big enough and novel enough to do that?
It is, but it would need receptive, perceptive, complex and independent minds to process it.
For the current state of most humans, "disabled" would work legally and cognitively. Out of figh-flight-freeze, it's the latter.
It's a systemic collapse, and it is inevitable:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-the-elite-and-the-unwashed-peasants
So how many "engaged" readers is enough? Consider Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields or the occult "group mind" or "egregore". Maybe the value is in thinking a new idea through and clarifying it. Having readers may be just a bonus.
One truly engaged will make the cut. :)
Thanks Ray. The distillation of your life isn't any coffee break read. Polite suggestion only.
There a too many post on ss that are far too long & long winded.
Breaking your story into short chapters may help keep readers attention & concentration better.
That's what my wife just told me, but this is a comprehensive piece. Maybe, it would be a good idea to publish it both ways. Still, I haven't seen much success with good authors breaking up their articles, yet other popular authors ("A Midwestern Doctor" comes in mind) don't even disrupt their publications with the begging inserts that I also avoid, publish long articles and have hundreds of "paid subscribers." (Of course, most of those must come out of the black budget, and I am not saying it's the Doctor, but who am I to say?)
I can only offer mundane suggestions. I am not very creative and marketing is not my strong suit.
Clickbait headlines and sensationalist approaches are disdainful IMO. If the information is solid, it will speak for itself and your personal integrity. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear... smth like that.
I would recommend using a powerful, attractive and relevant image to lead the article and posting on Gab.com
Thank you for your idea. What do you think getting involved on Gab would entail? I'm concerned that most forums would report me as a renegade. :)
Gab has a much larger "Overton Window" and might increase your reach.
https://gab.com/TheRealBaconCommander
Oh, dear, your profile on Gab kinda matches mine. :)
I bookmarked it immediately.
What the heck is an Overton Window? Okay, I've checked, but I still have no idea how that is related to Gab.
Also, would I be tolerated there with my points of view?
When Dr S Gundry’s book about lectins in food was written about 7 yrs ago he chose to entitle the first chapter thus:” It’s Not Your Fault”
Re-the poisonous aspects of some foods
It was catchy not only for its brevity and simplicity but for its appeal to so many who had been medically gaslighted(lit?) for so long.
Thats my thought FWIW.. an article sets itself apart when it sets the reader’s mind up by being so authentically supportive of the reader’s problem. That battle in their mind struggling to be settled.
The asking of your readers in this article, for help, is attractive in a similar way.
Both appeal to my sense of 1) author says i was lied to, and agrees with my disposition and 2) im made to feel there is value in my opinion.
You know all this as a fine writer. I’ve caught myself thinking at the keyboard again...
I am aware I am using a trick, but I'm honest about it. How else can I make sure people will not take this lightly?
As I said, this is not going to be a reading during the morning coffee.
I agree (read at your own risk) or (what you are about to read will completely change your life forever) then after “reading” your article they might look back over to see what they “missed” because they don’t feel the predicted change at all I find that people nervously grab at the first idea they can relate to and completely miss what is trying to be conveyed Martin Luther king broke through my haze with his resounding baritone repetition All the written words that I had digested still needed the vibrational influence to ignite
It is a problem on my site that I publish too much, but I practice journalism; mostly opinion pieces that still inform, entertain, and inspire. The bad part is that most readers have no idea that most of my old articles will not go obsolete anytime soon.
It's strange you mention "vibration." Quite often, certain topics seem to resonate with the audience or, at least, with the times. It is a problem in my case that I usually publish days, weeks, months, or even years before the topic picks up, and those who become popular don't do much else but repeat what I said before.
I know ahead of the curve Maybe when you see an idea start to be tossed about that you previously had expounded on, republish the link and maybe people will realize that fact And yes vibration is the heart of all matter