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Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien \u00e0 ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien \u00e0 retrancher.<\/i><\/p>\n

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.<\/p>\n

Antoine de Saint Exup\u00e9ry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If blogging\u00a0is a revolution in media like the printing press, it is sure to frustrate certain “respected” people.<\/h2>\n

Thanks to ubiquitous technology, many people have gone from voiceless to wielding a disproportionate ability to lobby world opinion. In their inability to accept this change in the media landscape, the formation of what we have come to know as the blogosphere, journalists and governments will seek to demonize alternative sources of information and the organizations sustaining such sources.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Tragically, people\u00a0who intended to shed ink can too often shed blood for their commitment to truth and virtue<\/em><\/p>\n

I recall that I myself have been attacked by mainstream media journalists<\/a> (despite the fact that Beliefnet is part of the mainstream media), who consider me to be a charlatan simply because I am an authority\u00a0on the blogosphere rather than old-fashioned news outlets. Due to this experience, I see myself as someone\u00a0on the frontline of the battle between the blogosphere and the established press. The importance of this battle shouldn’t\u00a0be underestimated; it is the most significant battle\u00a0of our time, setting the modernity of technology against the decayed and flawed democracies under which we live. I believe it\u00a0is part of the crisis of the world-system, defined by the constant deterioration of state legitimacy away from fake\u00a0democratic mandates\u00a0to a more arbitrary and “rule”-based form.<\/p>\n

Max Keiser explained in a recent episode of his Keiser Report<\/em> show at RT, that bloggers’ voices are powerful enough to prevent wars, such as\u00a0the war threatened against Syria in 2013. This angers the establishment press, who want\u00a0to consider themselves as authorities on the political facts. The people who once dictated the debate, dictated the parameters of all political and policy choices before the masses, are being dispossessed, loathed and irrelevant.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sqVeX-ll5X4<\/a>\n

Just as the Catholic Church and various monarchs once reacted in fury to the apparent moral arrogance and impudence of the men behind the first printing presses\u00a0– the men who would become the Protestant Reformation\u00a0– mainstream media and governments today are irritated by bloggers and Internet trolls, perceiving us as a threat to their pompous moral authority. Our work is never done. Like the iconoclasts and republicans\u00a0of old, the children of the Internet must\u00a0show the intelligentsia in\u00a0the media and government\u00a0no mercy. Surely, the\u00a0reality that bloggers are capable of changing the world is something we must act upon now. We should try to cultivate an even greater form of lobbying power through blogs, and this is why teams and alliances of blogs should be encouraged.<\/p>\n

\"Mont<\/p>\n

The Mont Order collective blog in its latest draft form<\/em><\/p>\n

If single bloggers can form a chorus enough to prevent wars or encourage social and political change merely by recognizing a shared truth, it is clear that greater coordination between them would only increase this capability. Thus the idea of collectives, affiliations or clubs\u00a0of bloggers is a potent\u00a0idea. I am trying to help\u00a0exactly such a clan in the form of the Mont Order, for\u00a0whom\u00a0I intend to set up and promote a shared blog to popularize as a new kind of dissident society.<\/p>\n

I apologize that this post\u00a0didn’t have something more substantive on the domain name change that I talked about last week<\/a>. Today, I was\u00a0trying to get lordre.net<\/a> to stop sending people to this blog, instead setting it up as the address of the new Mont Order shared blog. People continue to be\u00a0forwarded\u00a0or see\u00a0a fail screen (www.lordre.net<\/a>) due to slowness of the domain registration service. I am very unhappy about this simple change producing\u00a0such a messy, destructive\u00a0result\u00a0for people searching for the L’Ordre<\/em> blog or Mont Order resources. At present, I am left with no options but to wait for the problem to correct itself because\u00a0I can detect no mistakes\u00a0in the steps I have taken.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Harry J. Bentham<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HJB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien \u00e0 ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien \u00e0 retrancher. It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. 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