There’s a site I used to visit regularly where people discussed Buddhism in a fairly open and sometimes even antagonistic way. It was pretty good for quite a while. Some guys then decided to discuss how their philosophy was so much superior to that of the blogger and every commenter. I engaged with these for a while but it just tired me out. A lot of it was puffed up nonsense and trying to get past that to find a point was feeling like more and more work. So now I don’t bother to comment there and likely won’t visit it much any more.
Similarly I saw this photo site which had really good stuff on it and read the blurbs and so forth and left a comment wondering about copyright as all of the photos were from others on Flickr. This person with an incredible haughtiness informed me that of course they checked and got permission to put them on the page etc. Its really nothing more than a deluxe scraper blog. And badly designed for someone who has such pretensions of art snobbery.
It will be good to be away from this 24hr. high speed internet when I go back to India. I don’t have the time or opportunity to waste in comments sections and only concentrate on my own work and life there
I made this one into a longer entry for Monsoon Diary
