Friday, October 22, 2004
(8:24 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Group Participation Week
I have the following confessions to make:
- I've got to hand it to Anthony for pumping out three posts in one evening.
- I sometimes make overly ambitious promises that I can't keep.
- I don't know where to put things.
- Even though I know it just dries out my skin, I always take a really hot shower.
- My eating habits are far from healthy.
- I am veering toward coffee addiction.
- I feel like I'm really behind this semester and can't figure out what to do to catch back up.
- I never take my own advice.
- I routinely contribute to the political polarization of our great nation.
- Sometimes I think that the opinions I hold are true and that others ought to adopt them.
- I am all too often a whiny little bitch.
- I sometimes use misogynistic language (see above).
- My friend who always says the crassest possible thing in the bluntest possible way is no longer funny and cute to me.
- I'm on strike from going grocery shopping, because I went four times last week, each time falsely assuming that someone else would pick up staples that I had forgotten.
- My blog makes me late to work.
- I've lately learned of the existence of dozens of new blogs, and I have not made the effort to keep up on any of them.
- I'm passive-aggressive to a fault.
UPDATE: What does this mean?
AK, I think your style consistently mistakes "informed opinion" for "final authority" and openness for ambiguity. I'm sure you know that there are people who are more informed than you are that have different but equally valid perspectives. It's interesting to listen to what they have to say without despising them from the start.It's from Adam Robinson. I wanted to respond to it, but I'm not sure what the first sentence means (sincerely). So, (a) what is he saying, and (b) is it true?
