That’s it! Someone finally gets it…
by Jack GrantIt has become obvious from the comments I receive to my longer, more passionate posts that many people have no idea, or at the least refuse to hear, of the concepts I am trying to convey. Instead they get stuck on the first thing that offends their own, personal worldview and react solely to that roadblock in their thinking in lieu of considering the whole of what I write, often missing the entire point.
The author of TeaFizz gets it, and explains the fundamentals very eloquently along with pointing out why so many refuse to even hear of any concept that falls outside their house-of-cards worldview.
I wish I had thought of expressing it this way.
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I take it you didn’t reag my recent defense of agnosticism in the face of rabid atheism. Yet a typical blogging pseudo-hipster rant resonates? Interesting.
Lower your expectations of blogs. They are 99.9% idiots, like the bulk of humanity. The creme de la creme did not all flock online.
By Dan Schneider on 02.04.06 13:35
Or is it that we get it, have mulled it over, and reject it as flawed?
Come one Jack, some of this, particularly the TeaFizz post, is rather sanctimonius neo-nobility. Talk one second about the ills of making broad sweeping statements, then rely on thinking that is utterly based on it?
Decent, honest, and intelligent people can come to vastly different and valid conclusions, Jack.
By ry on 02.04.06 17:51
Ry:
If you have nothing but derision for what I write, why do you read it?
Perhaps your constant criticism would carry more weight if you chose to write a weblog yourself. If you’re looking for something “original” (your complaint that one of my posts at The Moderate Voice was lacking in originality) you will discover it is very difficult to find. Ever since the printing press made preservation and widespread diffusion of ideas easy, “original ideas” have become more scarce with every passing year.
Instead of constantly harping on how wrong I am and how you dislike what I write, perhaps you should consider offering something more constructive than snide rock-throwing from the sidelines.
By Jack Grant on 02.05.06 00:16
Don’t know what your history w Ry is, but my point is that a real debate on logic and semiotics will not interest readers of blogs.
This is the Lowest Common Denominator in action. The post you point to is rather pallid, and all it did was inflame Ry, and then counter-flame you.
To paraphrase the pop song, you’re looking for intellectual love in all the wrong places, if you go looking in blogs.
Even the science blogs website is top heavy with, NOT science, but POLITICS. Why? Because people are dumb, have limited attention spans, and just don’t care to exercise their brains in a medium- the Internet- that is entertainment oriented. Period.
We can think this not a good thing, but unfortunately my desires mean little to the masses. So do yours.
By Dan Schneider on 02.05.06 14:39
The more intelligent posters do tend to gather where they are not compared to shit, of course. It’s very easy to find what you’re looking for online, and when you go out expecting to find idiocy, well, the web is fully stocked on that.
How exactly is someone supposed to respond to a statement like that, anyway? If someone starts a conversation on a bus with ‘all people are assholes’, or ‘all people are idiots who only want to talk about Britney Spears’ it does not open a conversation on anything except commiseration about how, yes, all people are idiots.
By Kerlyssa on 02.11.06 08:58