{"id":1164,"date":"2007-03-17T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T03:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2007-03-27T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T03:55:37","slug":"splendor-amidst-the-squalor-there-is-nothing-good-about-self-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1164\/splendor-amidst-the-squalor-there-is-nothing-good-about-self-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Splendor amidst the squalor: There is nothing good about self-destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I said<\/a>: “The social agenda, it would seem, is to make the world safe for high-schoolish exclusion.”<\/p>\n

And: “I don’t think there is anything good about indulging and encouraging the worst in people.”<\/p>\n

And: “Here is the unstated moral principle undergirding ‘realweenie’: It is a moral good for like-minded people to get together to chortle about other people they don’t like.”<\/p>\n

To this, Joseph Ferrara asks: “Where are the examples of chortling?”<\/p>\n

The answer was posted last night at Sellsius<\/a>, with Teresa Boardman as the first commenter:<\/p>\n

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By these means do Joseph and Teresa rebut me by proving me right in every particular.<\/p>\n

I saw every bit of this coming from Pat Kitano’s original post<\/a>. I wasn’t working them, playing them like chess pieces. But people are who they are, and they will act upon their base premises, no matter what.<\/p>\n

Michael Thoman quite properly chides me for suggesting that I had entertained the idea that Teresa’s weblog might be a joke. I never thought that was the case. In a comment at Sellsius, John Lockwood wonders if I had thought the weblog was directed at me. In fact, I thought it was directed at sites that, like BloodhoundBlog, are addressed to the industry rather than to consumers. I have seen Teresa make what I thought were underhanded comments, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, among others places, putting me on notice that she likes cutting people down to size, as people say.<\/p>\n

What should you do about people like that? Avoid them, of course. There is nothing of the good in the dismantlement of oneself or the attempted dismantlement of other people.<\/p>\n

This changed for me when I saw that weblog. I could stand up for what I know is right, knowing, in large measure, what to expect in consequence. Or I could take a chance a bunch of innocent people would get themselves cut down to size.<\/p>\n

All week we have heard the expostulation, “But it was just a joke!” This is untrue. In the first place, “Can’t you take a joke!?,” is the ready-to-hand resort to plausible-deniability deployed by people who habitually make personal attacks disguised as jokes. This is why<\/i> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I said: “The social agenda, it would seem, is to make the world safe for high-schoolish exclusion.” And: “I don’t think there is anything good about indulging and encouraging the worst in people.” And: “Here is the unstated moral principle undergirding ‘realweenie’: It is a moral good for like-minded people to get together to chortle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":937,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/937\/lessons-learned-while-watching-american-idol-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1164,"position":0},"title":"Lessons Learned While Watching American Idol","author":"Jeff Turner","date":"January 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Teresa Boardman helped me understand why I sit through all of the excruciatingly bad performances on the first few episodes of American Idol. 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