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Doc’s observation regarding cults of one, went straight to my heart. I suffered the anguish of self realization that my intolerance of the intolerant was as bad as the intolerants’ intolerance of me. I swooned. Then finally I sat up, dusted off, centered the hat squarely on my head, stood up proudly and fairly shouted out the prophetic realization: “Hell, I ain’t a cult! I’m a movement!”  I then marched off towards Chernobyl to see if some gasoline would help.

And for all that, for the Mike Sanders episodes, the Dave Winer moments, my own annoying comment-flitting…  there are a lot of cool things about the blogosphere that empower writers and continually fold our margins back into the center.  Here are some:

1. We are a broad based community that embraces the diversity of opinion and the wide ranging expressions of creativity of our members.
2. While the broader cultural areas we represent (BigLaw, BillCo, Marketeria, Corporate Academe, etc.) may have a tendency to marginalize and devalue outsiders, we are as individuals generally more tolerant of all who hang in virtual cyberspatial adjacency to our thing, whatever the hell that may be.
3. We are open to discussing the language and structures (such as postmodernism) that foster and increase the marginalization of ourselves and others, within the blogosphere and in four-space.
4. Communication is what we are about.