All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[mogwen]

No worries. Just don't take engagement as a measure of what you contribute. You're not screaming into the void, so to speak, if that's any consolation.

Thanks a lot, you don't know how comforting it is to "hear" it. I had such an impression of loneliness yesterday, I felt that my involvement on this thread was for nothing because no one cared what I had to say. But I shouldn't expect people to be as curious as I am about other cultures and other systems. Sad but true. That's what I learned from the last messages I read.
And Tendrin, what a depressing thought!