Other People’s Opinions March 12, 2005
Posted by admin in : Discourse, Irrelevant , trackbackI hate other people’s opinions.
Just knowing where someone stands on an issue is not especially interesting for any reason. Polling populations to get statistical information on where people stand is perfectly interesting.
Hearing where someone stands whom you know and care about and respect can be interesting if they explain themselves.
But hearing the opinions of people you don’t know, care about or respect is meaningless. This is why I hate fark.com, and the stupid Reader’s Opinion section of the NYT web site, or any other mostly unmonitored forum where some dick wants us to know where he stands on something.
What I value are whole thoughts, complete, coherent and internally consistent thoughts. I don’t even care that much if the thought is persuasive particularly. I just enjoy experiencing how people reason, how they argue, how they manage to convey some thought in words. Thats is cool and interesting.
Which is what I love about EctoBlog so much. And other good blogs, which contain actual thoughts by humans, rather than reactive forces bouncing off of half-conscious, mean-spirited half-humans.
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