good Levi post up

Taking off from G. Spencer-Brown’s theory of distinction. HERE.

In general, I would tend to agree with those who claim that the blogosphere is not yet the right place for fully worked-out philosophical arguments. Or at least I find it hard to do that myself, and thus tend to put most of my energy into traditional publications.

And yet… Levi actually pulls it off on a regular basis. He’s pioneered the blog mini-treatise in philosophy.

And the medium is still young. Even better things will happen here than what has already happened: the creation of a community of rapid exchange of ideas and dissemination of information.

The rapid proliferation of skirmishes and gunfights has been a downside of this, but the same thing also happened in Wild West towns when the frontier was first being settled. Eventually an equilibrium will be reached, and I think we’ll start seeing a lot more people doing their very best work right here.

I’m probably too old ever to pull it off by now (I’ll probably keep writing in traditional publication genres forever, just as some people keep on using typewriters), but many of my readers are young and fresh enough that they can adapt to several futures still to come.