{"id":2689,"date":"2008-03-01T04:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2008-03-01T02:10:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T09:10:22","slug":"people-who-write-too-much-one-bloodhounds-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2689\/people-who-write-too-much-one-bloodhounds-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"People who write too much: One Bloodhound’s manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Farmer’s post on philosophy<\/a> got me thinking. I knew I had written fairly extensively, fairly recently, on some of the same ideas, but I couldn’t remember where. I write a lot<\/i>, and I don’t always remember what gets posted where.<\/p>\n

What I was thinking of was Todd Carpenter’s “Blogger Spotlight” interview with me<\/a>. That post was much longer. In the extract below, I’m clipping out the Big Issues philosophy. The confluence of recent events — webloggers-at-war and the death of William F. Buckley — seems to have left us a little more open than we might otherwise be to new ideas. This is an exposition of the ideas that move me, in particular, my personal manifesto.<\/p>\n

 
Todd Carpenter: One of my mottoes in life is that everyone has an ax to grind. I blog for money. Most RE agents blog for money in the form of clients. On the other hand, you don’t even have Amazon affiliate links attached to the books you recommend. What’s your ax to grind? Why are you doing this?<\/i><\/p>\n

Greg Swann: In order that it might be done, and done properly. I don’t think I fit your theory about having an axe to grind. I may be as close as one can come in the modern world to being an actual Attic Greek, a doer for the sake of having done, a thinker for the sake of having thought, a poet for poetry’s own sake. People often accuse me of having ugly motives — which says a lot more about them than it does about me. But there is a sense in which you could say that I don’t have any<\/i> motive for the things I do, none other than the doing itself. I like for things to be done. I like for them to be whole and complete and perfect and esthetically beautiful and mathematically elegant and philosophically sound. I work very hard on everything I do, and I can concentrate very intently on what I am doing, and I don’t like to do anything except what I am doing right now<\/i> — but I love to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Farmer’s post on philosophy got me thinking. I knew I had written fairly extensively, fairly recently, on some of the same ideas, but I couldn’t remember where. I write a lot, and I don’t always remember what gets posted where. What I was thinking of was Todd Carpenter’s “Blogger Spotlight” interview with me. 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