Comments

I don't get a lot of comments, but that's OK; I'm mostly doing this blog as my own journaling, not to engage with the Internet per se. I know, I know... I could do it all offline if that's what I want. I actually have real journals. But I like being able to scroll through old posts, follow links, etc. 

But lately, I've had an extraordinary amount of comments (for my blog, at least) that are little more than vandalization. People wanting to argue with me, and then their arguments are nothing more than "received wisdom"; something that they heard in middle school and haven't thought much about since, but just take for granted because they're too incurious to actually find out anything at all about what they were told. I actually had one guy getting all smarmy about how the Indian homeland model of Indo-European dispersion is so obviously true, and the Pontic-Caspian steppes model has been "debunked". I know among jingoistic Indian nationalists that position is somewhat popular... somewhat... but it's scientifically absurd, and honestly always has been. And that's just one example.

I don't know if these commenters are liars or morons (or both) but I don't care to be argued with by people who are too short for this ride. It's also not my job to get you up to speed if you're not capable of having a coherent discussion about something that you disagree with me on. I'm not your tutor. If all you've got is your opinion based on stuff that you really don't know very much about, save yourself the trouble and keep your mouth shut (figurately. Unless you're dictating your comments.)  Although it seems superfluous given the small number of comments I get, I'm going on 100% comment moderation from here on out.