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15:48 - Help! I've been typecast!
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0603/0603idiot.htm
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I step away from my computer for a weekend and look what happens: I find that some semi-thought-out tirade I dashed off in the heat of passion has gotten out of my control and landed me in political company I'd never expected to find myself keeping. (Well, not before I'd grown up a bit more, at least. I wanted a few more years to be young and misguided. I'm being cheated out of my halcyonitudinousness!)
Namely, my "A good idiot is hard to find" post has been picked up as a featured article by Enter Stage Right. (And yes, before one concludes that my feigned shock is anything but a clumsy attempt on my part to handle praiseful exposure through good old-fashioned self-deprecation, yes, it's entirely by permission.) It's been adorned with an entirely appropriate Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel picture, and the editor even added a reader poll. I'm being referred to with my middle initial. (Hey, the next step is for my whole middle name to be credited-- and then I'll sound like a mass murderer!) And weirdest of all, it describes Peeve Farm as being "popular". If that part's true, then I know the Apocalypse is nigh.
So I guess this means I'm officially right-wing now, eh? I dunno-- I kinda prefer Den Beste's axes, whereby a person can be conservative (opposed to revolution) and liberal (in favor of personal liberty) with no contradiction in ideology. I hope that model catches on a bit more, because without it I feel hard pressed to adopt traditional labels without fear of them being totally misinterpreted.
Ah well. Just another thing to get used to, I guess. I reserve the right to remain freaked-out for a little while longer, however.
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