Hm.Dan Hartung asks if you blog using your real name. [Scripting News] Who cares? As EM Forster wrote, true literature aspires to the condition of anonymity. (“Anonymity: An Enquiry”) And if it don’t aspire to true literature, it don’t arouse my interest.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Forster noted that identity becomes supremely important when one is imparting information. Literature does not require identity—in fact, identity interferes with the condition of literature. Who cares whether Shakespeare wrote his plays? His characters speak to us directly, they come alive. Information imparted often requires trust in the character of the author (in rhetoric, ethos) to trust the information.
Turning to my EPJ Corbett, phronesis, arete, and eunoia: sound sense, high moral character, benevolence. All these characteristics constitute an argument against false information being passed on. If the two debaters have not established a strong ethos over the course of their writings, pseudonymity may matter. They have been writing long enough that it does not. Get back to the argument, and stop making ad hominem attacks. Doing so eats into one’s eunoia.
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