Web Log IX

The blog portion of this Review is committed to being literary–and I insist on calling this website a review, that is, a literary review. It is important to do so. The latter notion of literary is used with all the connotations many of you might suspect are elitist. It is always elitist when literary is used as the moulding force behind the writing, when this guiding force is managed. Elitist can always be assumed when the word ‘literary’ is used. I have to say that everything literary is necessarily elitist. It cannot ever be made democratic–not that we have a clue what democratic means either. But the fact that there are so many blogs to read might point to a larger democratizing effect on the internet? This is a tangent . . . and now let me continue on this line that intersects with the perimeter of the circle literary blog. I am with Al Smith in the latter’s assertion that the only answer for the ills of democracy is more democracy . . . more blogs unfettered by interference by the government. I don’t see how Democrats like Obama cannot make you as ill and nauseous as George W. I’m tired–as evidenced by the editorializing in this blog–of the political and rhetorical ping ping played by Democrats and republicans using the same ball and the same paddles and the same table of play . . . it’s really as horrid as the hop-scotch they both play with Truth.