Selective Amnesia

Oh no! Not another PutVote.com post again!

Well, umm, yeah. Not because I am on a marketing mission or anything, but because, truly, as a blogger and a blog reader, I believe that the whole thing is so fucking cool!

If, over the last four-five days that is, you have been following the PutVote.com headlines, you would have noticed something. The blogs that have a high score today slip lower, and newer, fresher blogs float up to the top. ‘Like Doh!’, you will say. ‘That’s the whole idea dood!’, you will also say. I agree, it is stating the obvious. But it is stating the obvious and drawing the un-obvious conclusion from it. So bear with me, please.

Now, as I was saying, posts climb up, slip down, stagnate, flounder, make small, steady gains. In short, the posts are judged merely on their merit. If the post made sense, if it was well written, or had a good thought in it, or struck a chord or 1000 in the reader, the post went up. If it did nothing of the above, it stagnated and disappeared altogether.

In short, PutVote.com is like the ol’ market you know. Or more ideologically closer (to me), a Libertarian, Anarcho Capitalist society. And a filter blog, let’s say a Desipundit or an India Uncut, is like a Democracy and a Monarchy, respectively. A DP, because it’s got a few dozen authors who are supposedly representative of the blogging population and an India Uncut which is run by one dood, no matter how cool or good, are both inefficient forms of running a society.

You see, a blogging universe or the offline world doesn’t need any central enforcer to decide the common good. The people, as has been amply demonstrated at PutVote.com, are wholly able to decide for themselves which is the common good. And are highly flexible too, in their choices. In short, மக்கள் சொல்லே, மகேசன்் சொல்லு.

Thank you. Thank you. bows