It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Here at Irregular Times we're big believers in free speech, but unfortunately not all speech is free. We used to have a message board on which everyone was free to hold forth on issues of the day (with the understanding that others had the freedom to tell them why their point of view was full of crap). But we ran out of disk space. Alas, alack. Out to the dustbin went the board. Now, however, we're happy to report that we've purchased a big honking gob of disk space, with bandwidth to boot. And so, without further ado, I'm happy to introduce The Irregular Forum. We're irregular, but not that irregular, so some basic rules apply: no spamming, no flooding the board with cut-and-pasted dreck you didn't write, no death threats, and please don't leave any bodily fluids. Otherwise, have at it: express yourself! ![]() ![]() ![]() |