harry poptimer and the tides of snobbery

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i read this us blogger cz
a. he is grebt at getting to the nub of wonk-pol debate crisply and amusingly (not unlike freakytigger)
b. his spelling is TERRIBLE (not unlike barnetape

his comments threads (on say race issues, or health policy, or iraq) are generally between 5-25 comments long. This time the sub opened the hatch WHILE STILL SUBMERGED...

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i doubt there's much of value to summarise -- the point you made abt what always went wrong at ilx in "these kinds of argts" will be 20 times worse here

what fascinates me is the frustrated intensity -- something here really burns and chafes and matters, and potter is just the portal-of-the-moment

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Is it a wish for politics to map onto aesthetics, do you think?

(The issue in the bit I read seemed to be "What should intelligent people read?" and more widely "What should they be like?")

(Is this a leftist blog or a rightist one, if those distinctions still make sense in the pol-blogosphere?)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

leftish (FSVO) (where S = the US), with splurts of allegiance to libertarian

more like a wish for politics to somehow "have already passed through the filter of the aesthetics that our gang gets" -- where "our gang" is something comfortably assumed shared but also intensely complex (ie it's NOT just generational, as it was in the 60s; all kinds of conflict carries on within it)

it is a MASSIVE shared dissatisfaction with the cultural filters in place

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

bit of course fuelled also by an intense disagreement abt what would be better (abnd what the politics of enabling this improvement would be or will be or will have to be)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i had a sub to the atlantic for a short while