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Actually, I was prepared for such a ruling potentially happening--sort of like, the Hackland decision came so out of nobody-expected-anything-that-harsh left field, I was prepared for a counter-"nobody expected" circumstance.
But, y'know, the last few pages of bwahaha-ing "hey, get over it" from your usual hawc/peepers/malvern2/automationgallery suspects is a good reminder of how "trollism" a la message boards and newspaper/blog comment threads has had a coarsening effect on everything out there--like, web democracy giving the malformed a chance to reframe and ridicule, from the figurative loutish back of the classroom, everything mainstream media into "lamestream pinko media". Which actually makes sense--in the pre-Internets days, they didn't have a "public voice"; or if they sought to send letters to the editor (which was a more "overwrought and psychological demanding" task in the days before instant electronic messaging), they didn't pass newsprint muster. But now--blam, post a message, and you're a STAR, baby. "Take that, lamestream media, for disenfranchising us all those years! You thought you could indoctrinate us--no way!"
A quarter decade ago when the scale of the Ford phenomenon rose its, uh, ugly head, I framed it in UT-understandable terms as the "design-builds" vs the "architects". And it was a novelty: Ford as the first "design-build" Mayor. All other serious mayoral aspirants to date were "architects"--even Lastman, in his cheesy-Lapidus way. The public grew accustomed to the "architect" status quo--but here, lo and behold, was a "design-build", who designed the places "we" live in rather than what's illustrated in pretentious glossy publications. Never mind that the fare was gauche, inept hackwork; it was "of us", aka Ford Nation.
It's the same dynamic in newspaper comment threads--Chris Hume may write about architecture, but you get the feeling from the comment threads that it's once-mute design-build "silent majority" out to get him.
It's as if the, uh, lamestream media "consensus" was like some officially sanctioned Jimmy Savile type that was silently, uh, molesting the hawc/peepers/malvern2/automationgallery crowd's minds for all these years; and now, oh lordy, sweet revenge.
But, y'know, the last few pages of bwahaha-ing "hey, get over it" from your usual hawc/peepers/malvern2/automationgallery suspects is a good reminder of how "trollism" a la message boards and newspaper/blog comment threads has had a coarsening effect on everything out there--like, web democracy giving the malformed a chance to reframe and ridicule, from the figurative loutish back of the classroom, everything mainstream media into "lamestream pinko media". Which actually makes sense--in the pre-Internets days, they didn't have a "public voice"; or if they sought to send letters to the editor (which was a more "overwrought and psychological demanding" task in the days before instant electronic messaging), they didn't pass newsprint muster. But now--blam, post a message, and you're a STAR, baby. "Take that, lamestream media, for disenfranchising us all those years! You thought you could indoctrinate us--no way!"
A quarter decade ago when the scale of the Ford phenomenon rose its, uh, ugly head, I framed it in UT-understandable terms as the "design-builds" vs the "architects". And it was a novelty: Ford as the first "design-build" Mayor. All other serious mayoral aspirants to date were "architects"--even Lastman, in his cheesy-Lapidus way. The public grew accustomed to the "architect" status quo--but here, lo and behold, was a "design-build", who designed the places "we" live in rather than what's illustrated in pretentious glossy publications. Never mind that the fare was gauche, inept hackwork; it was "of us", aka Ford Nation.
It's the same dynamic in newspaper comment threads--Chris Hume may write about architecture, but you get the feeling from the comment threads that it's once-mute design-build "silent majority" out to get him.
It's as if the, uh, lamestream media "consensus" was like some officially sanctioned Jimmy Savile type that was silently, uh, molesting the hawc/peepers/malvern2/automationgallery crowd's minds for all these years; and now, oh lordy, sweet revenge.
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