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The Meaning of It All

Apparently it’s going around. Here’s a local regular, Bloodthirsty Liberal, wondering what it all means. He takes a gander at his navel, sees more than lint, will press on.  UPDATED:

Now is a reasonable time to ask: is this a good use of our time?

I maintain that it is, but then I have humble aspirations. What Aggie and I write here occasionally sparks debate (see the whole Party Unity My Ass thread), but rarely does it change minds. That’s not to say we’re not persuasive (not to mention right), but we all know from personal experience how hard it is to admit that a personal or political belief we’ve held for most or all of our lives seems wrong to us now. For me, it took airplanes smashing into a couple of skyscrapers; for Aggie (if I may speak for her), it was the slandering and demonization of Israel by the political Left which she (and I) had considered home.

What purpose I think we serve is to let those people who think the way we do—however [bleeped] up that may be—know that others think that way, too.  

BTL throws me in there with Mark Steyn as part of a trend, going dark. Good company. The Kennedy and Russert parts, I’m not so keen on. Not going that dark just yet. I dunno what mission Steyn is on, but my shed is coming along great. Yes, I’m still on hiatus, analog, sporadic posting notwithstanding.

Tigerhawk, blogging maudlin in a riff off a Wretchard remark, contributes to the summer’s growing navel-gazing thread: it’s about connecting. I hope T’hawk, occasional guestblogger here, counts me among the vastly enriching friends he references.

Wretchard of Belmont in comments on his own post, meanwhile, with some wisdom for the ages. It ain’t about the money:

… the ultimate reason for writing is as an exercise in thinking things through with a lot of people watching. It is very, very easy to make a jackass of yourself in front of thousands of readers.

Some people actually make jackasses of themselves on purpose, I think, if they find a demand for it. The most corrupting influence in writing is to find yourself in demand as a buffoon and then proceed to fill it. Like Pagliaccio.

Deep truth. I’d add that buffoonery in this business is very often in the eye of the beholder. No shortage of Blogliaccios out there, though.

Topics: blogs

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:33 pm on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

3 Responses to “The Meaning of It All”

1. theospark Says:
   June 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

   I take it the shed is finished!!

2. Grimmy Says:
   June 19th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

   I suspect this is Critts way of letting us know he’s through messing around with weather type catastrophes and now planning on something more geological.

3. BloodthirstyLiberal Says:
   June 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

   Thanks for the shout-out, Jules. Sorry to lump you in with those who are taking considerably more than the summer off.

   I’m envious. At the end of the summer, you’ll have a shed and I’ll have a scarf (made out of all that lint).

   BTW, just in time to renew spirits, our site has piqued the interest of the PUMA crowd (not to be confused with cougars)—the disaffected Hillary supporters calling themselves Party Unity My A**. I feel like a saloon keeper in a brawl. The best I can do to keep order in the comments is smash a bottle over the odd head.

   But I feel young and it beats knitting!

   BTL

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