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Re:And with that I've said my peace
As for your opinions about pacifism, whatever. As for this mythmaking stuff, here's what I actually wrote: James Wolcott in Biz2.0 seems to think blogs sort into the same handy left/right compartments that convenienced print journalism for the last X decades. I'm not so sure. At SXSW a few weeks back I asked the audience to tell me with a show of hands how many were left of center politically. Most hands went up. When I asked how many were putting their politics on the line in their blogs, most hands went down. I believe the truth is not anywhere between old extrmes, but within the personal dynamisms (thank you, Virginia Postrel) that impel us to write stuff in public. Maybe I should have made it clear that SXSW is an artisan / webdesigner / film industry kind of show, which is bound to have a preponderance of left-of-center types. I'll own that as a simple oversight. But there was no mythmaking intended, much less achieved. For what it's worth, I don't believe, much less claim, that pacifists are in the majority anywhere. Least of all in blogs, "original" (whatever that is) or otherwise. There are responses to this message:
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