Spotlight On The Annex

Truman Annex still stirs the passion of bloggers outside the Annex. As we tried to catch up on our blog reading, we found this on the Key West Chronicle Blog. It seems that the same anonymous trolls that always comment here are frequenting Cayo Dave's blog. We couldn't resist helping to set them straight. We hope Cayo Dave and other bloggers will keep the spotlight on the nonsensical rules and policies that infect Truman Annex and make it difficult for the larger Key West community to appreciate the many contributions to real Key West life a number of Annex residents make. The actions of a thoughtless few who want to narrow the freedom of others to conform to their own class and cultural-based stereotypes have wrecked the reputation of Annex residents in this City.

The one thing that these thoughtless few fear is that their closet stereotyping is exposed to scrutiny and that they may be embarrassed by it. That is why they react so fiercely, in truth squad fashion, at the slightest criticism that their rules or policies may be less than egalitarian or even paternalistic. These few need to look politically correct even while they are not. When some blogger, like Cayo Dave, punctures their proverbial high-minded bubble, they get offended, because the one thing that gets their attention is that they might look stupid. The fear of looking stupid accounts for most of the political change in the Annex. After all, "when you are filthy stinking rich," as one of our friends put it, "you are expected not to look stupid, and when you do something has to change."