On 9 Jul, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
I wouldn't call that a "discussion" (since a discussion has a modicum
of disagreement, if not more). read the article by "lenin."
The article starts:
Aside from augmenting narcissistic personality disorders, bloggery
is a collosal globalisation of the ego. Alongside the great hope of
the internet can be placed the bloggified reduction of discourse to
a tussling amorphous mass of mewling 'voices'. So many bloggers -
where they are not giving free reign to personal obsessions,
paranoid delusions of persecution, teenage bullying, hokey
mysticism, fantasies of omnipotent power and despotism, and
languorous self-adoration - are merely engaged in petty
entrepreneurial exercises, combining lurid self-display with
outrageous self-promotion.
[and I would add: albeit in much less tortured prose than the
above!]. I read this and realised... indeed this fellow is right at
least in one instance. So, I stopped reading.
Well to be honest, I read the next paragraph which led me to
wonder... hmm... isn't that exactly how the mainstream and the Right
describe us in the Left? But then, I have mentioned that before...
--ravi
