{"id":12480,"date":"2010-06-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12480"},"modified":"2010-06-29T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:34:34","slug":"four-years-of-the-dog-happy-birthday-to-all-the-hounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12480\/four-years-of-the-dog-happy-birthday-to-all-the-hounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years of the dog: Happy Birthday to all the hounds…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to challenge everything.<\/p>\n

After four years of hammering away at this thing, the other night I finally came up with a mission-statement that best describes my own involvement here — and everywhere:<\/p>\n

I want to challenge everything.<\/p>\n

I love classical ideas, but not because they’re old, and I love new ideas, but not simply because they’re new. I don’t love the sound of breaking glass, but I definitely understand the appeal of iconoclasm — image-breaking. I’m pretty sure that anything I might think about is oriented 178 degrees out of true, but I also know I am at odds with the hideous sameness<\/em> of everything no matter how badly it is twisted out of reason. I want things to be better — I can’t look at anything without seeing how it could be better — but even before that, I just want for things to be different<\/em>. We have this incredible gift — this reasoning, recollecting, choosing, daring, defying mind — and yet all we can think of to do is the stupid, the small, the vicious and the banal.<\/p>\n

I want to challenge all of that.<\/p>\n

And this has been a very good home for me, for that reason among many others. Four years ago today I posted the first entry in BloodhoundBlog<\/a>. The post was about disintermediation, a very common theme in my writing, and it still holds up pretty well. More than 60 people have written with us over the years, producing almost 4,400 posts as I write this. Just short of 2,300 of those posts are mine, to give you an idea of the kind of howling I’ve done, but everyone who has worked here has done exemplary work. For some of them, the best writing they’ve done anywhere has appeared under Odysseus’ nose.<\/p>\n

I’m very proud of this thing, and it matters to me a great deal that I am able to find pride in the things I do, the things I’m involved in. I’ve always been very good at making enemies, and BloodhoundBlog has proved to be an excellent resource for making new enemies. But I’ve forged some irreplaceable Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to challenge everything. After four years of hammering away at this thing, the other night I finally came up with a mission-statement that best describes my own involvement here — and everywhere: I want to challenge everything. I love classical ideas, but not because they’re old, and I love new ideas, but not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,24,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-egoism-in-action","category-flourishing","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2705,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2705\/does-the-renet-mean-real-estate-or-resist-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":12480,"position":0},"title":"Does the RE.net mean Real Estate or Resist Everything?","author":"Teri Lussier","date":"March 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a recent post, Brian Brady said he's been talking to me and that's kinda sorta true. 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