Cross at the blogroads

IN THE NEWS
Or blog at the crossroads. Or something.

I just got laid off today. I can't say what that will mean for this blog. Maybe I'll dedicate more time to the blog for however long I'll be a man of leisure. Maybe I'll be too depressed to write. I can't say right now.

Comments

[Oscar]

Sorry to hear it. We are hiring, but we are in Dallas and need people with strong telephony backgrounds, so I guess I can't help much. You might want to read Liddy's "Will" as this blogger did in a time of difficutly:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/000265.html
Note that his politics are rather different from Liddy's

[seydlitz89]

Sorry to hear it as well. I went through a similar period in 1993 and again in 1998, so I know well what you are going through. Married with kids as well which always makes it that much more difficult. . . I think the blog might be useful, might give you a bit of a sounding board, a bit of a release.

On a more positive note, I've enjoyed your blog and found some of your comments very interesting. You wrote a short essay back in April connecting Clausewitz with Max Weber. That is my main interest of study at this time and I do a yahoo search every six-eight months or so to see what has come up. This last search yielded your blog and this. . .

http://www.isanet.org/noarchive/nielsen.html

which you might find of interest.

All the best and remember that your current situation is part of the character of our times, part of living with "the beast" which Weber was able to describe so well. . .

seydlitz89

[Kingdaddy]

Thanks to both of you for the support. I'm still in the first couple of dark, post-layoff days, when a friendly word makes all the difference.

I'll read the paper on Clausewitz and Weber later this weekend. Incidentally, I once heard Weber's eloquent description of politics as "the slow boring of hard boards" at the end of a West Wing episode. Uncle Max probably has a bigger fan following than I realized.

And, to use another Weberism, I strive to "swim against the stream" when necessary. Much of what I write hear is in that spirit.

So again, thank you both for your kind words.