There’s been much thoughtful response to my “What am I doing here?” post the other day, for which I’m grateful. Among the responses, Ray Davis of the eloquent Bellona Times reminded me, worth repeating:

“Dialogue doesn’t have to be debate to be useful, by the way. (And it’s become horrifyingly clear since the 2000 election that conflating the two is one way we’ve gotten into this mess.) Sharing of information and analysis and rhetorical tools and errors among those-in-agreement seems absolutely necessary if any progress is to be made.”

I’m up for that…

Another reader commented:

“I’m more sanguine (or utopian) than you about the lack of cross-talk among blogs of different stripes. These are early days and we have a long way to go before we can guess the ultimate sociology of blogs (or blogology of society.)… I think our social organism is being completely rewired, as it has been by previous tech revolutions. This rewiring means we will have more synapses, more nerves, more thinking, more engagement. The change, as the Marxists put it, won’t be just quantitative but qualititative.”