He often does it in a cutesy way where what he says is – technically – not name-calling. …which isn't to say that Vox doesn't call names. He understands that the effect of deflating someone's argument through logic and facts is a thousand times better than calling them names. Vox is a performance artist par excellence, but he's also a crisp thinker, and usually not a name-caller. I'm sad because I thought Vox was made of better stuff.Īctually, I still do. I'm not sad for Ken's sake – Ken is a big boy and can take a bit of name calling on the net. I told Ken I'd rain hell-fire on Vox, but now that it comes down to it, I realize that I'm not angry – I'm sad. The raining of hell-fire – a desire I don't have at the moment If he says shit, I'll rain hell-fire on him.Īnd then, after Ken put up his great post, I tweetedĪnd now it turns out that Vox has – exactly as some expected, and exactly contrary to my own predictions – attacked Ken for the contents of his post. Re Vox: he's not a friend of mine, but he is an acquaintance. Which is to say, in pure market terms, it's 'not worth it' for you to write on the topic. The cost of writing is centralized (your effort, your potential embarrassment (not that I think there's anything remotely embarrassing about it)), and the benefit is widespread. I'm not a personal friend of Vox's, but I am an acquaintance (I have roughly as many political points of agreement with Vox as I do with Ken, so we run in the same circles, even if I'm not a card carrying member of the 'Dread Ilk'), and I thought the idea that Vox would attack Ken for the post was a bit far fetched – I thought Vox wouldn't stoop to that level.Īs someone who wrestled the black dog for a decade or more (thankfully, tho, not in the last 15 years or so), I'm a huge fan of your posts on this topic. He specifically wondered if various folks on the net would attack him for it. The other day my friend Ken asked me (and the other Popehat contributors) for feedback on his idea of blogging about his depression.

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