What’s happening to the grandaddy of linkfests, the Carnival of the Vanities?
I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about Eric Berlin choosing not to allow any posts for the Carnival that mentioned the Schiavo matter during a week in which literally thousands of bloggers were posting about precious little else.
A now this week, a dirty necked galoot who calls himself “Socialist Eurofag” and runs a site called “Yeah Whatever” has taken the idea of this friendly linkfest and turned it into a sneering, smirking, compilation of overheated rhetoric targeting points of view (those he bothers to read) he disagrees with. A few examples of Mr. Fag’s idea of “analysis:”
Watcher of Weasels watches weasels. No, not the furry, sharptoothed rodent-type things. Judging by this post on the differences between libertarians and conservatives, what he watches is rightwing politics. No shortage of weasels there.
This Blog is Full of Crap is a title that shows refreshing honesty. I won’t link the post: just make up your own racist shit that shows absolutely no imagination.
sigh Well, it was this or a long, equally ill-informed screed about Terri Schiavo, apparently, so I suppose I should be thankful.
And then this mountebank (who also goes by the pretentious nom de blog of Dr. Zen) has the temerity to write this of Christianity:
Mark thinks you will have a better life if you accept that two thousand years ago a man was hideously tortured because the omipotent, omniscient creator doesn’t like that you covet your neighbour’s ass.
Making fun of Christians has become the left’s number one sport; in Europe I hear it’s even become more popular than soccer hooliganism. But, shouldn’t Dr. Zen find it just a trifle, um, embarassing that he’s chosen to honor a philosophy where a large portion of adherents cling to the belief that the earth is flat and rests on the back of elephants? Or perhaps, this explanation of a Zen discussion forum will illuminate why only pretentious, egotistical nitwits with an inflated sense of self-worth could submit themselves to such outrageous tomfoolery:
One of the central points of Zen is intuitive understanding. As a result, words and sentences have no fixed meaning, and logic is often irrelevant. Words have meaning only in relation to who is using them, who they are talking to, and what situation they are used in. Some postings are indeed nonsense; other postings appear to be nonsense at first but this is because the meaning is all between the lines. Zen and poetry have gone hand in hand for centuries.
Only a charlatan or, more accurately, a bunko artist could sell a philosophy where “words and sentences have no fixed meaning and logic is often irrelevant.” Two more recent examples of this kind of nonesene are Foccault and Derrida, proponents of Deconstructionism, a philosphy that I believe has done more damage to the foundations of western civilization than even the socialist utopianism of Marx and Engels.
So what’s a blogger to do? Laurence at This Blog is Full of Crap took it upon himself to undo the harm caused by Mr. Fag’s hijacking of the COTV for his self aggrandizing purposes and with a herculean effort, posted and linked to each and every entry to make his own “counter-COTV” he calls “Carnival of the Vanities #134 – Avignon Edition. Avignon refers to a conclave of Bishops who, in 1080 CE overthew some apostates:
In 1080 a council was held under the presidency of Hugues de Dié, papal legate, in which Achard, usurper of the See of Arles, was deposed, and Gibelin put in his place.
And so, “Dr. Zen” is deposed…long live the counterrevelution!
11:52 am
He slurred me too. What a wonderful feeling, to know that you can arouse such filth! To know that you have personally pissed off a liberal!
http://hamstermotor.motime.com/post/442374
12:21 pm
Thursday afternoon lizardoid roundup
I’ve been blogging over at Chez hamstermotor, and have been remiss in spreading the lizardoid love that evolves.
3:52 pm
What the hell????