"our modern organs of communication, which were intended to inform and clarify our speech, distort and corrupt it......amplifying to deafening level the dicta of an unreflective punditry". Oliver O'Donovan, The Desire of the Nations, 282.
I remember my brother telling me that I friend who was at the RSMDA was told by their music teacher not to busk as it would ruin their technique. I wonder if blogging is actually a form of busking, but instead of coins thrown in a hat, we busk for hits?
Does blogging lead to poor writing, sloppy thinking, "unreflective punditry"?
I've just stumbled on an interesting article entitled, "the dangers of theology blogs" which develops some of these thoughts..
http://exiledpreacher.blogspot.com/2007/05/carl-trueman-on-dangers-of-theology.html
Posted by: That Hideous Man | Monday, September 10, 2007 at 10:10 AM
Does blogging lead to poor writing? Well I think you'll find it's RSAMD not RSMDA!!
Posted by: Margaret | Monday, September 10, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Margaret - I'd like to claim that I was being clever and that was a deliberate mistake, but of course it was not. Your comment did however make me laugh,so perhaps it was worrh it for that.
Posted by: brodie | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 08:54 AM
grin, i suggest you put sex more in the headings of your posts :)
Posted by: Paul | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 01:25 PM