Thermal

That makes me the fool & you the imbecile. And your blog’s no better, at least according to this guy: Joseph Raga

Ol’ Joe is an assistant editorial features editor (An assistant mind, not an actual one) at The Wall Street Journal, and deeply in love with himself. Some choice cuts for your delectation:

A tone of careless informality prevails; posts oscillate between the uselessly brief and the uselessly logorrheic; complexity and complication are eschewed; the humor is cringe-making, with irony present only in its conspicuous absence; arguments are solipsistic; writers traffic more in pronouncement than persuasion . . .?

Logo what now? Good job you didn’t eschew complication Joe, I’d have missed your point.

The right now is partially a function of technology, which makes instantaneity possible, and also a function of a culture that valorizes the up-to-the-minute above all else. But there is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

I’d love him to be on my team at Scrabble. If only ‘valorizes’ and ‘instantaneity’ were real words.

The technology of ink on paper is highly advanced, and has over centuries accumulated a major institutional culture that screens editorially for originality, expertise and seriousness.?

I think the fact that you got published blows this last one out of the water, Joe.

For those who can’t be bothered to read his article (and unless you can’t sleep, or have a fetish for overly long, pretentious soap-boxing, I don’t blame you.) I’ll summarise it thus:

‘Wah!, it’s not fair! normal people without expensive educations get to air their opinions on the world, instead of listening to mine! Look how many big words I can use! It means I’m clever. So clever that no-one else has even heard of them. And it’s not fair that blogs get published instantly, but my wonderful ink blots on paper have to wait a whole day to be ignored….’

Sorry Joe, the world’s moved on & you don’t like it. Sure, there’s millions of awful blogs out there, but there’s also thousands of great ones - written by people who don’t feel the need to patronise & belittle the majority, simply to cater for a self-imagined ‘elite’.

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