On the Nature of Criticism
12 December 2005 by Jeremy Price
From the novel I am currently reading, Angry Black White Boy; Or, The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay:
How much respect can you have for something you refuse to criticize?
Often in the blogosphere it seems that new ideas and practices are touted, celebrated, embraced, and sometimes even followed with a very short — or even non-existent — period of reflection and criticism. Peter Ford refers to this phenomenon as the “edu-blogging echo chamber.” To critique something, when done without malicious intent, is a call for an extended dialogue; it seems like that can only help bring about that open exchange of ideas in order to better the world at large.
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