Should we all start praying?
Let me paint a picture.
A small solar system with nought but a sun, its gravitational field and a comet.
A comet has three (four, technically) distinct features - a nucleus, a coma and a tail.
It orbits in wide ellipses around a sun. Sometimes out at the furthest reaches, away from the fiery centre, cold and invisible, but always edging closer.
As it nears the sun its pace quickens. The famed sling shot effect of a travelling, celestial body being “flung” by a larger body and its gravitational pull and ultimately its repulsion.
In the JU universe, the sun and its omnipotent pull, its organising principle, is the need to come together and “talk”. The nucleus of the comet would be the politics and current events forums, the coma would be the blogging forum and the tail would be everything else hanging on, trailing behind like cosmic debris. The type of “talk” in the centre is peculiar and dense. It is often confrontational and demanding. It puts its constituents under massive pressure. It is what propels, within the preset orbits of the sun, the comet, what allows it to be, even feeding its tail.
Sometimes the political and blogging juggernaut is in cold space, at others close to the source of its impetus and agitated, moving fast along the arc of pressure and release.
Now what does this have to do with anything?
Essentially, what can you do to stop the predetermined locomotive trajectory of a comet, especially when it nears the perihelion of its orbit?
ABSO-FRIGGIN’-LOUTELY NOTHING
When approaching the politics, current events and blogging forums, please keep this in mind and please keep all limbs within the moving vehicle. Thank you.