http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/01/12/more-on-the-democratizing-power-of-blogging/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:35:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/01/12/more-on-the-democratizing-power-of-blogging/#comment-958 robhyndman.com Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:20:59 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/01/12/more-on-the-democratizing-power-of-blogging/#comment-958 [...] Via Kinsella, observations by Peter C. Newman on the democratizing power of blogging, a recurring theme of this blog lately (see here and here, for example): The problem is that most of the great issues troubling this miracle of a country of ours have been exhausted, not through the catharsis of solutions, but through the absence of decisive action and the lack of any sustaining vision. Each of the many political confrontations of the past decade has diminished the moral authority of the protagonists involved. This “end of ideology” crisis has drained Canadian democracy of its vitality. There is a consensual apathy adrift in the land that threatens not only the political parties and their hapless leaders, but the viability of the democratic system itself — and that’s the parlous attitude this country desperately needs to reverse. [...] [...] Via Kinsella, observations by Peter C. Newman on the democratizing power of blogging, a recurring theme of this blog lately (see here and here, for example): The problem is that most of the great issues troubling this miracle of a country of ours have been exhausted, not through the catharsis of solutions, but through the absence of decisive action and the lack of any sustaining vision. Each of the many political confrontations of the past decade has diminished the moral authority of the protagonists involved. This “end of ideology” crisis has drained Canadian democracy of its vitality. There is a consensual apathy adrift in the land that threatens not only the political parties and their hapless leaders, but the viability of the democratic system itself — and that’s the parlous attitude this country desperately needs to reverse. [...]

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