Arthur Silber rides the vortex every day. I don’t know how he survives.

We’ve exchanged a few emails in the past, and I know he “gets it” in a way that isn’t obvious on his blog, unless you have empathy enough to understand what’s behind the pain. I certainly do, because I feel the same way when I get pulled in. It’s really courageous, what he’s doing, allowing himself to feel in such full measure, like he’s sacrificing himself for our behalf. You may find some of his blog posts extremely negative and bitter, even dangerous for your emotional health, but a) is a thing “negative” if true? and b) this is a soulful person. Like I said, he rides the vortex.

What brings this forward now are his savage takedowns of the progressive blogosphere, what he calls the “liberal blogs,” in his most recent posts. He’s so right, I can hardly stand it, especially on their relationship to “the next world war.” I have friends, kindred spirits too, deeply and conscientiously engaged in the enterprise of blogging for political change, so it isn’t easy for me to say this: it’s like instead of enabling revolution as they imagine, the blogs have eaten it …and there isn’t any left.

(An inadvertent pun, but let it be.)

Arthur may be right about the war. I don’t want that. He’s hard up, so go send him a donation to pay the rent and buy some decent food. He may get so happy, he’ll stop telling us the truth.