Blogdom,
There will be no new authors on this blog, contrary to the impression the change-of-name may have given you. It will be the same old goofball by pseudonym blogging at this address without authority other than that gained through argument.
But that is exactly why I feel the need for a more descriptive name. Sure, goofball has been, is, and will be going political on your ass on this blog, so the old name had some descriptive power. But the new name has better, since I live in Berkeley, the best city in speech (or argument), that is the one that attempts to found a new perfect society through words, transforming itself first through argument and then trying to spread this argument by its example; which is rather difficult, since the city remains materially a horrendously unequal, ill-kept place with staggering problems, even as it argues its way out of these statistically and economically incontrovertible facts with argument, a truth by another criterion. I disagree with most of the common arguments, the intellectual birth-right to which I am an immigrant heir, but fit in well because I too, by these philosopheme-studded political arguments and other argumentative actions, play my divergent part in founding the best city in speech; I'm just trying to change which best city that might be.
To deserve its new Platonic name, the blog will continue to promote the essentially essentialist, but unabashedly revisionist, mode of political discourse it has so far stood for. As I'm sure my vast array of imaginary readers is perfectly aware.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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