Sacré bleu! Sacramone/Luther Embraces Nihilism
July 13, 2006
Someone let Anthony Sacramone, the guy who does the “Luther at the Movies” blog, post on FT’s “On the Square.” Straightaway he went after Public Enemy #1: the teeming hordes of Wendell Berry-influenced folk. Sacramone feels they are into abandoning the cities and blogging about it. He warns that this a great and mendacious miscalculation sure to come to a bad end.
Well! I must be out of touch with the fads of the masses. I didn’t think there were more than a handful of Berryian, Agrarian blogs, and my impression was that Crunchy Cons (Scarredmoon cites it as the ringleader of this foul subcultural Zeitgeist) didn’t exactly make the Times best-seller list. But still, clearly a threat (for some reason) to the likes of Scaredmoan. Strangely, it is also clear he has not read the first 30 pages of CC (as I almost have) or paid much attention to its urban-dwelling author who has long indicated an affection for and affiliation with bungaloes, the “New Urbanism,” “Smart Growth” policies, and the like.
What can explain this little rant of Antonio Sanctimonious? He claims to like pollution, video games, cell phones, and other alleged amenities of urban life that look positively base alongside the real and undisputed goods of city living. I would surmise the man is simply an uncultured buffoon who is perhaps tired of the scant number of online “anarchists” and agrarians (urban or otherwise) who pop up hither and yon, nobodies really, and grab an inordinante amount of attention in the small world of professional religious conservative culture warriors.
Sadly this cannot be helped. I do my best to discourage blogging, but on it goes, and even FT has stooped to the practice. I fear this is largely because professional thinker/writer types (academics, journalists, and other quacks and hacks) crave attention as they are faced with an ever-diminishing audience (and diminishing revenues) via the printed page. The Blogo-Sphere furnishes an engaged audience one longs to capture, control, and hold court in. But resist that urge of envy and vain, petty ambitions if you feel it! If to keep your hand from the keyboard you must even take up the plow, so be it.
Attention Mr. Sacramone: please renew your blogad with TNP post-haste or we may have to resurrect some of your formerly submitted poetry (or was it an unfinished closet drama?) from the circular file of our base agrarian web-zine.
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