About Brutus
Because I don’t crave any particular notoriety for my ideas and think the “look mom, no hands!” approach to functioning in a public forum is rather tasteless and jejune, I’ve decided to remain anonymous. The focus should stay off of me. I’m not trying to become a media personality.
Diatribes and scenarios about how it’s all going to ruin and we all had it better back in those halcyon days tend to be right up my alley. I recognize the fallacy of relying on a golden past that wasn’t, after a bit of inspection, so golden after all. It’s a seductive narrative frame, just as the opening scenes of movies tend to enter the story at a point of calm and composure only to introduce conflict and drama. Still, the cultural critic in me can’t escape the gnawing sense that we’re poised on the brink of a new paradigm, and that the shift from one way of life to another won’t be a pretty sight.
You misspelled “notoriety”.
It probably says something about me that the entire framing-and-paradigm bits reads to me as “bzzzzzzzzz”, but “notariety” stands out like a spotlight.
Also, “halcyon”.
Gawd, how embarrassing. Thanks for pointing those out. They’re fixed. Do I get a little credit for using and spelling “jejune” correctly? [Guess not, since I had that one wrong, too. Now it's fixed.]
Actually that’s not how you spell ‘jejune’.
Seriously!
[Sigh...] Fixed that error, like the others. I need an editor.
[...] for the world’s ills. (All the world’s a stage, right?) He seems to think that cultural criticism from a little-read blog may have some impact. How insane! It’s not like he’s doing [...]
On spelling … oh, get a life.
Erm, sumpin’ like that!
The idea that a word spelled against the convention indicates a picky mindset … and since I ain’t whut all y’all might call edicadded … all y’all can pick at me instead …
I want to be expressive and accurate if I can. Spelling definitely counts, but it’s not the most important thing. Luckily, I can always fix the problems.