Comments on: You have to give the people what they want. http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/ "The trade of authorship is a violent and indestructible obsession." George Sand Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: W. http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/comment-page-1/#comment-16 W. Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:42:14 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/#comment-16 I approve of my own narcissism and feel self-righteous toward the narcissism of others. I approve of my own narcissism and feel self-righteous toward the narcissism of others.

]]> By: Elif http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Elif Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:41:44 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/#comment-15 Dear Marco! I would be thrilled to embark together upon the long road of analysis. Perhaps funds could somehow be diverted from the editors' individual health insurance plans? Dear Marco, of course you are right about narcissism. Here is the thing: I think every individual has a different tolerance threshold for different annoying tendencies in themselves and others and, as it happens, my narcissism threshold is pretty high---compared to, say, my threshold for self-righteousness, which is really low (even though I don't think self-righteousness is objectively "worse" than narcissism). However, this definitely doesn't mean I think my blog's font should be 5x bigger than the font of the comments. The webmaster is already at work repairing this injustice. Dear Marco! I would be thrilled to embark together upon the long road of analysis. Perhaps funds could somehow be diverted from the editors’ individual health insurance plans? Dear Marco, of course you are right about narcissism. Here is the thing: I think every individual has a different tolerance threshold for different annoying tendencies in themselves and others and, as it happens, my narcissism threshold is pretty high—compared to, say, my threshold for self-righteousness, which is really low (even though I don’t think self-righteousness is objectively “worse” than narcissism). However, this definitely doesn’t mean I think my blog’s font should be 5x bigger than the font of the comments. The webmaster is already at work repairing this injustice.

]]> By: Marco http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Marco Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:35:20 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/09/you-have-to-give-the-people-what-they-want/#comment-14 Dear Elif, Can we pay you to analyze us and write for us? That would require some philanthropist! This is great. My worry about blogs is not that they promote subjectivity, but narcissism, which isn't really subjectivity but looks like it in the mirror. xo, Marco btw. your comment font is almost unbearably small, feel like I'm typing with my eyes closed. Actually would be better off if I did that. Dear Elif, Can we pay you to analyze us and write for us? That would require some philanthropist! This is great. My worry about blogs is not that they promote subjectivity, but narcissism, which isn’t really subjectivity but looks like it in the mirror. xo, Marco

btw. your comment font is almost unbearably small, feel like I’m typing with my eyes closed. Actually would be better off if I did that.

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