I know this is going on the front page and I will try the best I can to make every effort to earn that privilege, given my subject matter.
We’ve had some uproars with Underdog’s essay, where he is grappling with how to respond to authority on a blog.
Today I encountered a bit of that as well and was challenged as to my own thinking. I imagine this, in a way, like Underdog was the big brother, getting kicked around first so that by the time I got dealt with it was far less being kicked around-ish. As the youngest of six children, well, my parents were pretty worn down by the time it came to tell me what to do. Heh.
I don’t consider Meteor Blades primarily as someone who posts at Daily Kos, someone who has taken on the job of Moderator in Chief, even though he has accomplished a great deal in that area.
To me, he is much bigger than that. Just google him. I’ve seen him post on one particular website which was begun as a hate-Daily-Kos site – he was excoriated and sarcasm and bile was dripped all over him. It didn’t seem to faze him much. I’ve seen him at Booman. And of course he has posted here as well, since the beginning of Docudharma. He came here as well to DD to pay Underdog the respect of addressing his concerns.
Underdog was amazing in how he allowed all of us to experience his innermost feelings in a very difficult situation. He opened himself up fearlessly.
How much authority are any of us willing to obey? What is obedience, anyway? If it is voluntary, then that’s a far different experience than if we are either forced or coerced or tricked etc.