tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post938947635635348646..comments2021-09-10T23:38:21.337-07:00Comments on Virtual Jungle: The Real DantonDanton Sidewayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08592611193635208286noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070972110446697029.post-19083836852990771452008-01-20T03:45:00.000-08:002008-01-20T03:45:00.000-08:00"Blindfolds in place, panel?"I don't think I've ev..."Blindfolds in place, panel?"<BR/><BR/>I don't think I've ever called Corey Linden a left-libertarian, exactly. He's sort of a hippie cyber socialist alternating with anarcho-capitalist tendencies -- the contradictions inherent in all this was finally crystallized for me in this apparently famous essay on "The California Ideology" which you can google.<BR/><BR/>I think it would be good if a newspaper were to emerge that could have news, satire, cartoons, classifieds that was not tied to the land baron business, or banks, or to a TV station that gets $1000 US for ad space. So I think a critical journal/paper on the left, if it weren't rabid sectarianism like those idiots in SL Left Unity, might play an important role. But it would have to be open to writers across the spectrum, because there is nothing that gets older faster than reading look-alike Guardian or Nation ranters day after day saying the same thing over and over, that Bush is evil, American is a mass murdering capitalist conspiracy, and where's my invitation to my semester teaching in New York? It should have gotten here in the mail by now...etc.<BR/><BR/>The blogs in the Frieswiththat are just too much inside baseball to stay tuned into for long. <BR/><BR/>The media scene in SL is fairly dismal now, with the Herald jammed into the one groove of griefer/porn/fake Internet law and with other papers mainly about the ads selling the stories about the ad buyers to sell more ads.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17462957723334149373noreply@blogger.com