An examination of my traffic on DOTE reveals that the number of visitors has fallen dramatically since December 21st when the holiday break began. Prior to the break, I had set all kinds of traffic records in the weeks leading up to holidays.
That is very disappointing to me, especially in so far as traffic on DOTE did not recover much last week after the holiday break. Here I am, a mere 9 days away from the 3rd anniversary of this website, and I feel like I've got to start from a base level I had 18 months ago in mid-2011.
I will not put up with that. Fuck that. I write to be read and understood. I am aware that my stuff requires effort to read and absorb. I understand that I am generally telling humans things they don't want to hear.
That said, I don't think it is not too much to ask that DOTE not be entirely crushed under the astonishing welter of callous self-serving bullshit—political bullshit, markets bullshit, optimistic economic bullshit, advertising bullshit, mainstream media bullshit, social media bullshit, doomer bullshit, tech gadget bullshit, celebrity bullshit—which passes for human discourse during the Empire's Decline and the Decline of the Natural World in the early 21st century. It is un-fucking-believable, just how limited these humans, especially the Americans, appear to be.
And yes, I am fully aware that I am writing this blog during the Great Deterioration, which does not help DOTE's "popularity" because people generally, especially Americans, are too fucking dumbed down to read something as sophisticated as this blog.
Am I pissed off? You bet I am.
Today's post is yesterday's post The LImits Of Free Will In Human Action. Read it, re-read it, tell others about it, spread the word. Let its meaning and many implications sink in. You might also read or re-read Friday's post Shark Finning — The Carnage Continues, which prompted yesterday's long overdue post.
You can discuss that post here. And here's a video from Steve Cutts to rub yesterday's message in.
Dave,
I think part of the cause behind falling reader numbers of DOTE may be accounted by the fact that surviving and continuing "comfortable life" requires investment of more and more time that would come at the expense of "non money making activities".
i can oly speak for myself but I do spend much less time reading blogs and searching for likeminded people on the Internet. That is because I had to look for a job last year and I am going to look for a job again now because my contract expires soon. And on top of that I have to work for another so called "designation" - I already have one from investment management world and now I am doing another one in accounting.
Needless to say all of that requires time.
And I have family to take care of and I have to excersize rtegularly otherwise my RA strikes often and puts everything on hold.
I manage to read DOTE because I like your style and the way you think but I consider it is luxury that can go away any time.
I think a lot of people that found DOTE are in similar circumstances and I would expect that for all sophisticated blogs (those that are not BS that you mentioned in the post) the readership will decline as continuing BAU requires more and more time from "economy slaves" who I consider all of us are.
Posted by: Aboc Zed | 01/07/2013 at 11:51 AM