Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/146
And so...
In the secular Blogosphere..
A great blog will discuss ideas and philosophy.
Mediocre ones will discuss current events
Small minded ones will discuss people, occasionally to praise of their "icons", but too often to do character assassination.
Similarly, in the Jewish Blogospehere - you can discern this easily
A Blog that teaches Halachah or Hashkafah is praiseworthy
A Blog that discusses current events or trends is neutral
A Jewish Blog Praising someone is probably small-minded, but when attacking or name-calling - then it's probably downright evil.
What about in our own lives?
Are we focused upon
A. Ideas and Ideals
B. Events
C. People, keeping up with the "Joneses" or what have you?
Shalom
RRW
1 comment:
We do two things: Watch what people get to see if we're keeping up with the Jones's, and judging what people do negatively so that we can enjoy feeling superior to them rather than working on ourselves.
(By "we" I mean most people, including myself. I'm not claiming RRW is similarly afflicted.)
-micha
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