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Maybe it's a pompous kind of self-deprecation
They're still out there, reviewing The Book. The latest is in the Miami Herald. Samples:
Once past its self-evident pomposity and glibness, The Cluetrain Manifesto makes some serious connections on how the Internet has subverted and undone the corporate construct in particular, and business in general. Its gist is that worker-customer roles created by the Industrial Revolution are unraveling...
Much of this may be painfully obvious, but there's still a fair amount of compelling stuff here. The authors' self-deprecating style underscores the issue at hand: the restoration of humanity to commercial relationships.
Can you have two personalities, say a two and a seven, and have them add up to nine? Just wondering.
I'm a Type 9 on the Enneagram. That means I want to do stuff like bring disagreeable people together in peace and harmony and feed and comfort them and shit like that. Which is why I wrote this reply to a Richard Stallman reply to a Dave Winer post on Scripting news.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I do sense some movement on this one. Or at least some listening. It all has something to do with what Hugh McKay says about what we really want, which is to be taken seriously. Actually, I'm not sure it's that so much as just respect. You know, what Bobby Knight got fired for demanding out of... well, everybody.
I don't think Bobby is a nine. In fact, I think I'm the only one. So let's hug.
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