Let's deblog from the Digeratis' blogs

This is written without acrimony.

Very recently, I totally quit, reading, hot air blowers blogs sending to each other via blog posts cross-congratulations and flatteries that generate and maintain an eco-system of digeratis who decide what is worth thinking, having, buying, blogging and everything in ing you can think about.

This is written without acrimony.
The previous before last to go down the gutter from Bloglines was gapingvoid who was just starting to me at least to feel human (genuine) when dealing with shmates. Scoble who monitors himself - self-big-brother - went down before being referred to in the Economist, before turning into a TV personality. Seth Godin's blog - a free, convenient way to read summaries of his next books without buying them - is the last casualty. This post was the drop that .... blah, blah, blah.

This is written without acrimony.
Except for this final one knows-all-expert-of-what-is-in-if-you-don't-buy-it-you-are-out, all the digeratis tend to share the same long, real long, oh! so long list of cloned blogroll links to each other - virtuous circle, cloned blogroll as one central device of the digerati ecosystem windblower mechanics. All tend to tour and meet at the same digeratis world tour talk show conventions on Blog-this-blog-that version +2. The world tour being yet another piece of the hot air blowing mechanism for digerati eco-system to self-sustain.

This is written without acrimony.
Reading a digerati parody is not enough a cure, although worth it as pre-treatment. The real hard way to try and get rid of all that noise is to deblog from the digeratis and consciously listen to oneself reacting to the sudden void, absence, silence of some sort. If you can live without that noise, why don't you leave it. Unless your strategy is to be part of the ecosystem of hot air blowers circus.

This is written without acrimony.

Blogging back to Blogger was also in my case a salutary action. I forgot about that wonderful button at the top right corner of most Bloggers' blogs reading Next Blog, and randomly linking to one of the millions blogs around. Clicking on Next Blog is a cure of modesty.

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Another cure of modesty is literature. Digeratis advertise books that are typically in the vein of arrogance, in your face, assertive style were doubt, skepticism are off limit. They read book written by people that claim to know. This too doesn't much stand against reading, and especially the reading of fiction.

This is written without acrimony.

In the April issue of the French monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, an article covers the new essay of the novelist Milan Kundera about the art of writing novels. The intro reads like this: "(the author suggests that) the world is veiled is veiled to us by a "curtain" of ready-made interpretations, fallacious images, edifying and untrue representations. And the function of the novel, since the beginning of time, is to tear it, to reveal these few glares of truth which only the authentic novelists can make us reach. The digeratis - with or without a glaring agenda - are weaving a veil of hot air engrossed with ready-made interpretations.

This is written without acrimony.

Although an interpretation by itself, this attitude of mine at trying successfully so far to quit reading the hot air digeratis bloggers' blogs comes as a relief.

This was written without acrimony. For all that it matter. Now, click on that Next Blog button on the top right corner right away.