{"id":10387,"date":"2015-08-01T02:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2015-08-01T02:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T02:07:34","slug":"they-may-be-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10387","title":{"rendered":"They may be right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Someone once told me years ago that the Bard of Baltimore, Henry Louis\u00a0Mencken, used to end arguments by telling the other person, “You may\u00a0be right.”<\/p>\n

Then, I suppose, he and his foe would go on to something else.<\/p>\n

Well, in this new age of social media, I think I’ve discovered a 21st-century version of that old dodge.<\/p>\n

Every now and then — and it’s becoming quite a frequent occurrence these days — I get into these snits with Facebook “friends,” and actual friends with whom I have a relationship on the social medium.<\/p>\n

I like using Facebook — along with Twitter, Google and LinkedIn — to share my blog posts. Some folks like getting these\u00a0musings on Facebook. Others, I reckon, do not, to which I only would say: Don’t read ’em.<\/p>\n

But the individuals with whom I argue on Facebook sometimes get pretty relentless in their attacks. They cling stubbornly to the idea that they must have the last word. I don’t mind ceding that honor to these folks. I generally don’t have the time, not to mention the patience or the intestinal fortitude, to keep going back and forth on a topic.<\/p>\n

Quite often, we end up talking past each other, with the point of the initial post getting lost when folks take the discussion down some blind alley.<\/p>\n

So, when that happens and I grow tired of engaging individuals on endless — and seemingly pointless — discussions, I simply hit the “Like” button on my Facebook news feed.<\/p>\n

Look, I know I’m not going to change their minds. They won’t change mine.<\/p>\n

What, then, is the point of continuing?<\/p>\n

When I get tired of the back-and-forth, I’ll tell my “friend”\/friend\/foe that I “Like” what they’ve said.<\/p>\n

Then I’ll move on.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mencken, wherever you are, I hope to have made you proud.<\/p>\n\n

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