B. U. G. S.

I began reading Ryan Holiday’s “Trust Me, I’m Lying” as a lesson in all this terminology and strategy in blogs.

Then it became familiar.  Then I REALLY ENJOYED THE HELL OUT OF IT!

Holiday’s original theme was “I was The Greatest of Sinners, Lord, please forgive me upon my confession.”

His information on my blog question, “Why was this information produced?” was that of a pro who had been there, the ideal reader for someone wanting the lowdown on the new web culture.

The last two-thirds of “Trust Me, I’m Lying” began to sound creepily familiar.

That was when I REALLY began to ENJOY it.

Blogs have become bullies.

Now understand me: Nobody was a bigger fan of bullies than Ryan Holiday some years back.  He says twice that his and America’s “social icon” is Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central.

As Holiday’s dialogue became more familiar, it hit me: He sounded just like me at his age.

You see, Jon Stewart is one of the “anti-racist” bullies, the fashionable young leftist bully who would be disrupting any attempt by any serious opposition to the “Intellectuals Should Rule the World” line on campus.

Campus bullying of anyone by screaming “racist” or “Nazi” who worries about European birth rates is just the sort of thing Holiday and Stewart would consider Hilarious.

And “constructive.”

But the blog culture now attacks THEM.

The last two-thirds of the book sounds exactly like an old-time conservative or pro-white shouting about how unfair Media routinely is.

Suddenly the bullies are not limited to racists and Neo-Nazis and other heretics against Neo-Marxist Orthodoxy.

Suddenly the most devoted fans of the Campus Bullies are THEMSELVES subject to exactly the same unanswerable, screaming attacks Holiday and Stewart always cheered on when they are bullying the RIGHT people.

The fun is over. Now Holiday and his “icon Jon Stewart,” even some BILLIONAIRES (God be Praised!!) are subject to the same unanswerable bullying they cheered on when it was against political heretics.

It’s no fun anymore.

Every grammar school bully says that when someone finally beats the crap out of them.

The Old Fairness is gone!

I spent the last half of the book often laughing out loud at the bullying bemoaning The Good Old Days when the Mainstream Media were HIS attack dogs.

Now the blogs can ruin ANYBODY!

Oh, Woe in these Evil Latter Days!