{"id":2937,"date":"2008-04-11T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2008-04-11T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:47:12","slug":"a-deeply-philosophical-discussion-of-the-flame-war-that-will-not-be-happening-at-bloodhoundblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2937\/a-deeply-philosophical-discussion-of-the-flame-war-that-will-not-be-happening-at-bloodhoundblog\/","title":{"rendered":"A deeply philosophical discussion of the flame war that will not<\/em> be happening at BloodhoundBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, good grief…<\/p>\n

I can credit both sides of the rancorous dispute that is not<\/em> going to happen.<\/p>\n

I agree with Russell Shaw that Barry Cunningham can run roughshod over opponents in debate, and I knew without having to be told that Russ was steaming over this.<\/p>\n

I agree with Barry on the factual prognosis for real estate. I watched it happen in the graphic arts, and I’m watching it happen in dozens of other industries.<\/p>\n

I was laughing with Brian Brady on the phone last night that I have inadvertently introduced a second standard on ad hominem<\/em> comments: Zero tolerance for everything else, but a wider latitude on Barry’s threads. I’ve stepped in when things seemed to be trending a little too flamey, but, for the most part I haven’t had huge objections.<\/p>\n

Gentlemen, I want for you both — and for everyone reading this — to understand something that, like the oceans of air I am immersed in, is too obvious to me even to notice most of the time:<\/p>\n

Weblogging is theater of the mind.<\/p>\n

What we do is entertainment. It should be interesting, fact-based, persuasive — all that serious stuff. But we are competing for attention with radio and television, not Oxford University. I certainly want to talk about things that matter to me, and I have huge goals for real estate and for the world at large that I would like to see effected. But none of those things is going to happen overnight — and none of them in response to a blog post.<\/p>\n

If Barry Cunningham paints the world with a broad brush and that makes you hot under the collar, the most interesting question is this one: Are you angry because he’s outrageously wrong — or because he might be right? When an argument is absurdly off the mark, we ignore it. Ha, ha. Who cares? It’s when things are too irritatingly right that we get irritated. Your emotional reactions tell you almost nothing about the world outside your mind — and almost everything about the world inside<\/em> your mind.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, all you need to do to defeat an erroneous Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, good grief… I can credit both sides of the rancorous dispute that is not going to happen. I agree with Russell Shaw that Barry Cunningham can run roughshod over opponents in debate, and I knew without having to be told that Russ was steaming over this. 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