Hi Paul. After deciding a long time ago to follow pinbacks on my site, the very dubious and ominous Moral Fibre I’ve arrived here.

No comment about moi? How sad! To the point of Roy’s Retraction, I think it isn’t so much a retraction as it is an adjustment; Mike and Roy know one another and I think that the internet isn’t always the easiest space in which to build upon positive criticism as it is a communicative space sans tone / voice / gesticulation etc. etc.

Your point on the fear of “authenticity” is a juicy topic you should have explored more thoroughly, I’m inclined to agree with you for the most part the South African blogosphere is littered with masks laying disused after they’ve become redundant. I make the point of using Masks as I’m reminded of Fanon’s writings in “black skins white masks”, it is a covering which protects and serves the wearer in a society which looks upon that particular individual with suspicion. I’m sure loads of bloggers are saying, “fuck thats me, no one understands me”. Tears, snot, self-love etc. I think what is most likely happening is that the blogging space is so competitive that individuals are putting on fronts, creating online personas which are far more glorious than their real-life symbiotic counterparts.

Take for instance those bloggers entitled “thought-leaders” who are precariously perched on the top of the blogosphere, imagine one of them saying “wait a moment this high horse is making my arse numb, I think I’d prefer to walk” unbloody likely right? So now imagine the group of bloggers in attendance at the 27 dinner turning to one another and saying, “who are you, really?”..perhaps even less likely.

Its a long comment so perhaps you should continue in a real blog, because now you’ve got my attention, and I’m famous…in margate..Whats that? I think I hear my high-horse calling, the ivory tower calls .