Today an individual calling himself Mr. Ebenezer Devotion attempted to leave a comment on the previous post. While I initially deleted the comment in a fit of pique, I believe the episode deserves a recap. Since the individual in question believes that names are interchangeable, I prefer to call him Mr. Anon E. Muss. Now, Mr. Muss's comment indicated that while he was in agreement with the substance of the previous post, he was "puzzled" to encounter a hectoring, arrogant tone in it. For the benefit of this blog's tiny readership, and most of all for our devoted Mr. Muss, I would like to note that active challenges to the conspiracy of silence, however flimsy and rhetorical, will always seem arrogant to the quiescent, the ironic, the resigned. This was overwhelmingly the case, for instance, when Andrew Mayer attempted to join rhetorical battle with John Kerry--an act of courage that I do not mean to demean by pooling it with my own narrower efforts here.
Given that Mr. Muss avowedly agrees with the content, one wonders whether he might like to review the mendicant blogger's body of work in a soothing tone of humble, dispassionate tranquility. I have reservations that such a review may be impossible, but given that the mendicant blogger's work is of far greater importance than quibbles over style in the ghetto of this blog, perhaps one should be attempted. On to you, Mr. Muss.
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