I always enjoy it when the Commissar metagames this thing of ours, but I’m unsure whether his latest (The Blogger’s Manifesto) is serious, or not. I’m hoping ‘not’: when it comes right down to it, hitcount is lovely, yes, bragging rights are wonderful, indeed, I like the idea of a wide audience, sure… but, really, how are the bigger blogger’s successes taking bread out of my mouth? It’s not like any of the bloggers here get paid for this*, after all.
Still, Manifesto #6 – “Linking to smaller comrades” – is something I like; there’s always somebody out there saying something that I wish that I had said first, after all. Besides, I understand all too well how addictive Trackbacks can be.
Moe
*Of course, with the way hitcount’s been creeping up lately, ObWi may be leaving the ranks of the proletarian revolutionary bloggers anyway. Yup, pretty soon we’ll be just another member of the bourgeois class, selling out our former comrades…
Or something like that.
“The tragic dialectics of the bourgeoisie can be seen in the fact that it is not only desirable but essential for it to clarify its own class interests on every particular issue, while at the same time such a clear awareness becomes fatal when it is extended to the question of the totality. The chief reason for this is that the rule of the bourgeoisie can only be the rule of a minority. Its hegemony is exercised not merely by a minority but in the interest of that minority, so the need to deceive the other classes and to ensure that their class consciousness remains amorphous is inescapable for a bourgeois regime.”
Lukacs