tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post115186576457666076..comments2023-10-02T04:41:34.722-04:00Comments on Marry in Massachusetts: Lying Down with Lydon?massmarrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358207247771711952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-1152035869273451702006-07-04T13:57:00.000-04:002006-07-04T13:57:00.000-04:00Mr. Lydon's discontent with the Globe may be due i...Mr. Lydon's discontent with the Globe may be due in part to their begrudging committment to intellectual diversity - for instance, they have ME as one of their Decision '08 blogs - clearly, NOT out of the top shelf!<BR/><BR/>As yourself this, Mass - HOW did the invitations to the Twee Twenty get sent out? How did you wind up in that Sharing Circle? The problem with a genuine Common of Ideas is that so many of the people are, well, common.<BR/><BR/>It sounds like Mr. Lydon, like many a liberal fisher king before him, would like a lot of prominent people to do a lot of work that he can then take credit for, and use as a reference point on his own resume. Nice work if you can get it.<BR/><BR/>As I said on BMG, I shall continue to agitate for the post of Town Drunk. Or Village Idiot.Peter Porcupinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03721530947712291966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-1151938833308386742006-07-03T11:00:00.000-04:002006-07-03T11:00:00.000-04:00True enough and fair enough -- there are many acco...True enough and fair enough -- there are many accomplished and intellectually curious folk here. Then again, there are too in Manhattan, San Francisco, and Arlington (the Virginia one). <BR/><BR/>What we have to be cautious of is the <I>Athenian syndrome</I>, which I just made up for this. Speak with virtually any adult in that city or in much of Greece and you'd likely get the same prideful provincialism. They'd all have you believe they were direct physical and intellectual descendants of Socrates, Aristotle, Sophocles and such. They are all thus brilliant thinkers, politicians, orators, scientists and writers by association and locale.<BR/><BR/>There and here, a little skepticism and questioning, in the Socratic tradition, serve much better than head nodding and blind civic pride.massmarrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02358207247771711952noreply@blogger.com