STUMBLED ACROSS AN INTERESTING BLOG
Called NuSapiens: Biology, Technology, Philosophy The proprietor is certainly a more liberal fellow than I am ( not a high bar to meet, admittedly) but he/she devotes the blog to an array of congruent issues that you find here at Zenpundit, plus some different ones that are just plain intriguing. This blog would be, I think, right up the alley of praktike, Whirledview, Dr. Von, Armchair Generalist and perhaps Mithras while Pundita, riting on the wall , Marc Schulman, Dave, Dan and the gentry at Coming Anarchy will find an intelligent raconteur to debate ( or perhaps bait, as the case may be).
I left a comment on the “ Occidentalist” post and I encourge you to peruse. Good visual format and Gravatar enabled as well.
May 26th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
Thanks for the tip. I’m glad to find another person who has read that book. I loved it.
May 26th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
Thanks, Mark, I’ll take a look at it. Let me toss one back to you: have you taken a look at Daniel Starr yet? I linked to it as part of my morning rundown the other day and I’ve been following it faithfully. Verrry interesting.
May 26th, 2005 at 9:57 pm
My, NuSapiens has a lot of (it seems to me) unsupported assumptions, doesn’t he/she?
May 28th, 2005 at 2:42 am
hey Dave !
Took a brief look at Starr, seemed interesting but I will take a deeper read tonight and perhaps leave a few comments.
Nusapiens has responded. I’m not sure he reckons whom the west is dealing with on the margins. You can talk to the Muslim Brotherhood because they ( generally) eschew violence and are gradualists with radical ends. You can’t talk to Zarqawi.
May 30th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
C’mon…I did take the time to post at Nusapien but you can’t really take this person seriously.
Barnabus
May 31st, 2005 at 1:24 am
Hey Barnabus
Some blogs are good for their writing. Others for their arguments and some are good for the subjects they toss up into the spotlight that I might otherwise overlook because they have a blogger whose frame of reference is partly outside mine.
Sometimes this is a canary in the mineshft thing, alerting me to subjects the other side is going to be discussing full throttle when a meme picks up steam. You have to cruise small blogs to stay ahead of the curve – by the time you read it at Atrios or Kos or Yglesias or Kevin Drum’s blogs it’s already there, framed and packaged to be digested by the MSM, pro and con.
I read lots of ppl for their utility – hearing about _Occidentalism_ was useful. I might not have heard about it for a while otherwise.