{"id":578,"date":"2004-04-28T22:46:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T02:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/04\/28\/in-lieu-of-an-entry\/"},"modified":"2004-04-28T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T02:46:22","slug":"in-lieu-of-an-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/04\/28\/in-lieu-of-an-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"In lieu of an entry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1304'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;an extended comment to the entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/04\/23\">April 23<\/a><br \/>\nabout Al Tysick.&nbsp; Go read that if you will.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lovely offline<br \/>\nweekend and I also wasn&#8217;t able to access this blog for a few days (was<br \/>\nthe server down?), hence the paucity of entries.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I went on a rant<br \/>\n(albeit via email) about something I read elsewhere by a so-called<br \/>\ngreen anarchist.&nbsp; It was so wrong-headed and full of idealist<br \/>\nsynthesist fallacies as to make the head spin, a tract worthy of total<br \/>\n(critical-feminist) deconstruction because it is so very very<br \/>\nwrong-headed, and maybe I&#8217;ll have more to say about it here later, but<br \/>\nmaybe I&#8217;ll just give up.&nbsp; I know it&#8217;s passive-aggressive junk to<br \/>\nblog it like this, but the stupid tract I&#8217;m responding to is hooked<br \/>\ninto a universe of discourse that&#8217;s so big, and I&#8217;m just so small: it&#8217;s<br \/>\npotentially thousands of guys all believing the same stupid blather,<br \/>\nand just a handful of smart women saying, &#8220;are you nuts?&#8221;&nbsp; Like,<br \/>\nwhere does that get you, if you&#8217;re one of the women?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that little diversion took some of my attention, which<br \/>\nled to the loss of life.&nbsp; No, wait, I&#8217;m channeling a Pentagon<br \/>\nspokesman!&nbsp; That&#8217;s not what I wanted to say!&nbsp; (I hate passive<br \/>\nvoice.)&nbsp; What I meant to say is &#8220;which meant I stayed away a bit.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m disenchanted also with the blogging medium.&nbsp;<br \/>\n(And it&#8217;s going around.&nbsp; The disenchantment, I mean.)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nBored and disenchanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;an extended comment to the entry on April 23 about Al Tysick.&nbsp; Go read that if you will. I had a lovely offline weekend and I also wasn&#8217;t able to access this blog for a few days (was the server down?), hence the paucity of entries.&nbsp; I went on a rant (albeit via email) about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}