From time to time, I get emails in response to my newspaper columns. Most of them (these days) are supportive. In the early days, they usually weren't. (All the "haters" probably learned to avoid my columns.)
But, I get a few emails with regard to my columns that I can't classify. I can't decide if they agree with me or not. Sometimes, I'm not sure what they are trying to convey. I don't think the problem's on my end.
This happens much more often with the newspaper columns than with the blog posts, which I assume has something to do with the literacy and general brilliance of the regular readers of my blog.
Yes, that's a compliment. You're smarter than the average human! Or bear.
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Thank you for reading.
Yeah, I get some strange ones too.
ReplyDeleteThe most fun ones are when I write a column about, say, Daylight Saving Time and get an email chiding me for leaving out, say the fact that it's a freemason conspiracy to enslave us all and that the only way to stop it is mass collective prayers to [I forget which incarnation in this example) to the Virgin Mary.
A loooong time ago, I used to get periodic emails from a Randroid (as opposed to a thoughtful Objectivist) informing me "I have identified the nature of your evasion! You are a social metaphysician!" and other obviously copied and pasted phrases from Ayn Rand with no actual content as to what aroused the complaint.
So you're a "social metaphysician" and I'm a "COMMUNOFASCISTIC STATIST"- according to deep-thinking critics. How fun!
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