In today’s polarized world, being a moderate means standing alone, caught in the crossfire of extremes. Misunderstood as indecisive, moderates value nuance, balance, and solutions over partisanship. This blog is for those who feel politically homeless, seeking common ground and thoughtful dialogue. Moderation isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom. Let’s navigate the middle together.
storefront
Friday, September 26, 2025
New on TikTok: So many being controlled by so few for so long.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
New on TikTok: A priest and an athiest walk into a Tik Tok stream and change conflict into conversation. #politics
New on TikTok: It’s not a debate, it’s a conversation. Saturdays 9pm CST
Monday, September 22, 2025
New on TikTok: Every Saturday at 9pm CST A conversation geared to the belief that understanding beats undoing and a respectful conversation is the very foundation of a truly free and civil society.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
The Citizen Project (Introduction)
Welcome to a new LABEL section of The Indecisive Observer. One I am calling, The Citizens Project. It is my first section dedicated to my art. Specifically my abstract art depicting people in anonymous masses
.
Stay tuned….
The Return of Analog Communication
When I was in 6th grade, the class least picked as an elective was typewriting. Home Ed, sure. That’s where the girls and food happened. And mostly small groups of teams. Unlike typewriting, where you had to actually learn how to type. Remember, home computers were barely in every neighborhood much less every home. Typewriters were for accountants, secretaries and nerds. I was a gaming nerd. Not a math nerd.
Fast forward and everyone has used an inklless typewriter or as most people refer to them, keyboards. Everyone has sent an email, typed in a google search item, asked AI the meaning of life, etc. The point being, the modern typewriter is the keyboard and some of us still stumble around them because we underestimated Typewriting class. One of many regrets for sure.
Now go back to 6th grade with me. For me, thats the early 1980’s. Shut up. We were cool. Anyway, back then we wrote everything by hand. Graffiti on the bathroom wall, by hand. Homework, by hand. Our book fair order, by hand. The chain letter folded up in an intricate pattern and containing the ultimate love quiz, by hand. Our favorite bands name on our trapper keeper, by hand. Another words, we wrote everything by hand. Not all of it legible or even interesting but done one letter at a time.
Letters formed by shapes we learned from day one in Kindergarten. Later years would introduce us to cursive and calligraphy and some stupid math that uses the alphabet instead of just numbers. But for now, the handwritten word was our means of communication second only to the spoken one. I would argue more people have communicated through written than verbal communication but I don't have the data to back that claim.
Fast forward again to now. Today, I believe it’s safe to say that more people communicate with electronic mail (email) than any form of communication methods before now combined. Again, I have not verified that with Wikipedia nor any AI models.
This leads us back to what I think is an educational extinction event of biblical proportions. The end of the hand written word. Using a keyboard to type an email or other document has already become the norm. Not long from now that will be replace with the majority of people creating messages by speaking or even thinking about the message. No more pen (or pencil) to paper. Your thoughts will become machine code and spread by use of other machine code.