Dogmatically Camping

In a few of hours I’ll be pointing the bike down the road on a bit of a tenting trip so posting out of me will probably be non existent. Those of you popping by #canada via the web-chat link will not see me there until Monday or Tuesday (I really haven’t decided which day I’ll be back yet).

Just before I finish packing up a ‘wee word (well, 5 words) on dogmatism – it’s not a good thing.

As I wander around the blog-0-sphere and related places these days I seem to be finding more and more of a gathering the “political like” in the various nooks and crannies in some sort of weird virtual public need for validation of personal views and ideals at the expense of actual discussion — and it succeeds by essentially driving any form of dissension resulting in (IMO) a false sense of “I must be right, no one is disagreeing with me“.

I’m not gonna list the various sites I visit to read for a laugh, but (very) rarely comment on because:

(a) it would be unproductive; and,

(b) I’m not a fan of political circle jerks

– suffice to say I have two folders on my bookmark tool bar, one labeled RightWingNuts, the other labeled LeftWingNuts – they both have a fairly long list of sites in them, and they all share the common trait of rhetoric filled posts and comments.

Every now and again it amuses me to enter the fray and mock them – as I said, it’s not productive, but it does amuse me, and it’s one of the many benefits of being a non-partisan, non-dogmatic, non-aligned, political blogger, in the modern blog-0-sphere.

More folks should try it