i've got a rant coming on

[rone]

I've had it up to here with the likes of the blognoscenti, people who pretend to be looking out for everyone in the blogosphere, but are merely elitists in populists' clothing. God damn them.

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[merde.livejournal.com]

"blognoscenti"?

excuse me while i hork.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I'm sick of the term 'elitist', myself. Severely overused, and rarely used properly. Particularly at fault are the right wing, who've appropriated populism for elitist causes, but that's another rant.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I have a theory about that: a general theory of political party alignments. Probably it is not original.

See, in any country that is more or less democratic there will arise political parties for strategic reasons. One or more of those parties will favor the economic interests of the rich. Since most people are not the rich, such a party cannot survive unless it broadens its base of support, so the one that becomes big and strong will necessarily adopt cultural attitudes held by poorer, less-educated people: lots of emphasis on family, tradition and national identity. That creates an opening for opposition parties to favor downward distribution of wealth, and at the same time favor the rootless cosmopolitan cultural values of the educated elite. Thus the well-known left-right axis emerges as the dominant political feature of modern democracies, where just based on class distinctions you'd expect there to be an orthogonal populist-libertarian axis instead.

Re: a general theory of political party alignments.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Original or not, well analyzed.

[jwgh]

People who smell like blogs?

Dude

[erikred.livejournal.com]

You're listening to Helmet. Of course you feel a rant coming on.

"To die young is far too boring these days!"

Re: Dude

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You'll never go down fighting
You'll just go down

Re: Dude

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Btw, I saw Helmet twice: once for free in Berkeley, and once opening for Sepultura and Ministry.

Best. Opening. Act. Ever.

Re: Dude

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Grrr. I wish i could've seen `em. They've been toying with news of a reunion this year, but i doubt it'll happen. Then i wanted Page to bring his new band, Gandhi, out West, but that fell apart, too. And the "greatest hits" CD only offers one off-album track... crap, where's "Impressionable", for god's sake? That track is like someone set off a bomb, it's so good.

I have some Gandhi mp3s if you want `em. They're good.

[(Anonymous)]

don't know what sorts of bloggers you are talking about exactly. My own bloggy stuff is only protected because I am afraid to have it torn to shreds by people who tore my posts and place page to shreds. I have not been snobby to anyone myself, though I imagine you have apparently found some folks who are. I have been protecting myself. I have on occasion protected an entry that was too embarrassing for others to read so I am the only one who can see it, except for a couple that were written to depressed folks whose email inboxes and journals I didn't want to clutter but yet it was too personal to let others see it; in other words I wrote a personal entry for one person to see that was more an email item but easier for them to view if placed in my journal than in their inbox. I don't do anything elitist with my journal though. I know some who do, but I doubt you are aware of them and so I don't know what sorts of journals you mean. -lisa

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm talking about people who think that "blogging" is some sort of phenomenal epiphany in human communication, that it somehow has given a voice to thousands worldwide who never had the chance, thus "democratizing" the Internet and empowering millions. Why, soon people will be PAID to blog!

Just typing that made me feel ill. If you don't know who i'm talking about, that's good; you're better off that way.