Preferred participants of this blog: retired people. People who are retired because they have finished their working life. People who are retired in the sense they wish they were retired. People who are retired in their nature, who are perpetually in retirement. People who are retiring in their nature (which is something only slightly different).
Other preferred participants: young people. Young people who are anxious to attain to the better elements of the old people. Young people who are patient with others of all types. All young people. (Anybody young or old is hereby admitted and preferred.)
Other preferred participants: teachers who are students, students who are teachers, long-winded talkers who, after a painful period of conversion, are now “the world’s greatest listeners”, who won’t say a word, and such like.
Other preferred participants: everyone. (Everyone is hereby admitted).
Preferred activities: polite civil dispassionate discourse (policy preferred over politics, and “what’s truly enjoyed” over pop or high culture); solid jokes, involuntary poems –sincerity/ logic/ mockery / wit– comments that reflect an earnest wish for the improvement of mankind, for the dismantlement of its delusiveness; for the improvement of the individual before one; for the improvement of the group of which one is a part; — anything effusively positive or constructively negative is hereby preferred. Anything — Your personal best, is hereby preferred.
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