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:: Saturday, July 24, 2004 ::

Of "A" lists and blacklists
Blogger Bene Diction is involved in a discussion with other bloggers about this whole "A" list business. This whole discussion makes me feel like I'm back in high school. Bene, ever the idealist (well, until recently, anyway), held to the belief that there should be no "A" listers among the so-called "god bloggers" (with a little "g," for some reason).

"I hope we don't start drifting in 'A' list terms," writes Bene in a July 22 post, "because if we do, a lot of bloggers are going to be left out and ignored and whether we are catholic, protestant, orthodox, it isn't what we are supposed to be about. There are certainly god-blogs trying to get there, whereever this top is, even if they have to put themselves in that position by default."

I agree with Bene in theory. But the reality is that in any social construct, you'll have stratification. Call it what you want -- lists, social Darwinism (survival of the fittest blogs?), popularity contests, political wrangling for some sort of position of power and influence -- but it exists everywhere in the world, including the blogosphere.

And Christianity -- the idealistic writings of the Apostle Paul notwithstanding -- has a pretty solid history of promoting just this sort of schismatic thinking. And given the way most Christians in the blogosphere seem to want to develop a parallel universe to the "secular" or "worldly" blog culture, we'll feel the need to create one of these for ourselves. (Only we'll call it something ridiculous, like a "Holy Huddle".)

So don't expect the idea of "A" listing to wither away, Bene. That just ain't the way this old cyberworld works.

:: Andrew 11:45 + ::
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