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LIGHTNING_WAR

It's often occured to me that if a writer like
Nietzsche attempted to produce a work like
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" by posting chapters
to usenet, he never would've have finished it.

The work would have drowned in complaints like

   "Why the hell is this supposed to mean?";
   "Why the fuck are you posting this here?";
   "Have you thought about this at all?";
   "Are we supposed to be impressed with this drivel?";
   "Can you prove that anything you're saying has
    any relation to reality?"


Techie geeks like things with
hard edges, and have little
patience for abstruse, poetic
abstractions.


But on the other hand that storm of criticsm
really can help keep things grounded.              LIES

Inflated rhetoric gets deflated quickly,
It's harder to get away with sloppy thinking,
If there's a simple counter-argument, that
argument gets presented pretty quickly.

   You don't need to wait for the next
   issue and depend on the honesty and
   integrity of the editor.


Some work thrives on the storm,
some needs to be sheltered from it...

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