April 21, 2003
Jeff Cooper is back today with a long post on why he hasn't been writing much lately. He's having a hard time dealing with the blogosphere's lack of real conversation and understanding:
Perhaps some of this is inevitable. War is very serious business, after all, and it inevitably arouses high passion in the political arena. But it does make me wonder about the utility of continuing this enterprise. I'm not so egotistical as to think that I would change many minds, or even any minds, by writing here. But I did hope at least to make my positions understood, and to come to better understand the arguments of those who see things differently. That requires a certain openness, though, a willingness to attempt to see the world from different perspectives and to take seriously the possibility that I might sometimes be wrong. And, unfortunately, I don't find many other bloggers approaching their writing in a similar spirit.I definitely share some of the same frustrations. Blogging has turned out to be a lot less conversational than I expected - when I'm not shouting at an empty room, I'm shouting at people who are shouting back. There's not a lot of room in there for subtlety.
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