Saturday, May 14, 2005
(5:52 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Go thou and do likewise
I recently started reading the new blog entitled The H was O, featuring m2 and Kamala the Ugandan Giant.On an unrelated note, what is the opinion of the blogosphere on rolling over one's credit card debt using free or low-interest balance transfers? Hot or not? I just received a tantalizing offer today, but I worry that it is just a "quick fix" that would not help me to develop my moral fortitude as thoroughly as if I had decided instead to pay off my debts the old fashioned way, through robbing a bank.
I have all weekend to think about it, because even if I dropped it in the mailbox this very instance, it would not begin its trek to Salt Lake City (a major financial hub nowadays!) until Monday morning.
UPDATE: John Emerson has a comment on the Internet as a forum for philosophy at The Valve, as well as at his own site. I hope that this statement can be true of The Weblog, even if recent conversations on philosophy have resembled less a café and more a mental ward where a schizophrenic has a lengthy monologue about philosophy and is egged on by the nurses:
The internet can be compared to the coffee shops of XVIIIc France and Britain, or to the free discussions of early humanism (Erasmus, Montaigne, More, Rabelais, et al) or even to the Athenian agora -- clichéd though that last comparison may be. Suddenly anyone can participate in the debate -- and more to the point, anyone can raise a question. To me this is a wonderful thing. Let's hope it continues, and grows. It should be good for philosophy.
