so, i drop by
anil’s site
in an innocent attempt to get some more information on his latest
project – magazine. instead, i find myself completely enthralled in the enfolding
fiasco between
anil
.
i was going to write a long, rambling stream-of-consciousness style
post, but then realized that
rafe
had already written
exactly
what i was going to write. only with better editing.
i stopped reading
little green
footballs
long ago when it seemed to be getting a bit, er, unidimensional.
just to be fair, i don’t visit
metafilter
as often as i used to for similar reasons. ditto with unfiltered
slashdot
comments. and yet there’s something unsettling about recognizing
myself in
anil’s comments
:
“I used to have strong opinions about current events
and policy in my late teens and early twenties because, well,
that’s when those things are easy and everything yields to an
idealistic world view. Today, the more I see of the extremes, and
as I see every issue reduced to some binary us vs. them debate, I’m
too disgusted to be engaged.”