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FR is full of attack. True. It's full of one sentence sniping, pedestrianism, conventional wisdom (that's J.K. Galbraith's phrase, amazingly enough.) Tom Wolfe would be driven to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge if he read the Da Vinci Code threads. No, FR is a laboratory illustrating some of Tom Wolfe's points in the essay.

The old paradigm is thinkers debating ideas on the pages of well read journals and magazines. The new paradigm is idiots writing letters to the editor which then get printed by idiots with J-school education. Sorry to be so harsh, but having witnessed the recent debates here on historical ideas (Da Vinci Code again) I just don't see it.

FR is full of attack. True. It's full of one sentence sniping, pedestrianism, conventional wisdom (that's J.K. Galbraith's phrase, amazingly enough.) Tom Wolfe would be driven to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge if he read the Da Vinci Code threads. No, FR is a laboratory illustrating some of Tom Wolfe's points in the essay.

I probably haven't thought long enough before responding to your post, but I must defy the convention and at least applaud your courage...you are one of the leaders of the unconventional opinion. There is no doubt that the lack of accountability makes for a rude venue...but the cream of ideas and dialogue still rise to the top. And the trash sinks to the bottom of the heap.

The debates are certainly insane here. It is a raw journal of the jungle of ideas.

But as disgusting as it is...it is the "cinema verite" of our time.

Can it be so bad? Genius mets idiocy...and is humiliated...but still alive!

FR is the Hyde Park Corner of the electric world. Freedom of speech has never had such immediate power.

Don't give up! You are one of the reasons that reason will defeat insanity.

Here the pain is felt in the ego. Courage and wisdom is always greater than ego...when ego is dead, they will remain.

IMHO

Sorry for such a silly response but I am watching "Braveheart" on TV and it always makes me voluble and, well, Scottish.