Comments on: Andrew Sullivan on blogger burnout

By: Scomo

Scomo — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:21:54 +0000

Hi Neo,
Just a quick thanks for your blog. I read virtually all you write and only occasionally post a comment. I have been quite amazed at your persistence when you have a relatively small following, at least as judged by the # of comments per post. I don’t mean this as insulting in the least. ( As you know, many popular blogs like Ace get hundreds of comments for every post–tens of thousands per week). I have always admired your willingness to keep going without the kind of reinforcement that comes from a higher profile. You have very good insight and a great community here.

By: JuliB

JuliB — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:52:05 +0000

I’ve thought about a religious blog, but can barely reply to the few comments my FB posts generated without getting weary. You have my utmost respect!

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:35:53 +0000

No amount of staying loyal to Democrat propaganda and tradition tying the KKK to Forrest, raising up Lee, hating Sherman, or anything else of that nature post Reconstruction was ever going to earn Southerners “forgiveness” in the eyes of the Democrat party. They were always going to get you back for not toeing the Democrat line, for not dying in their wars with patriotic glee and fulsome praise.

It’s easy to discard what I said about the South being entirely loyal to the Democrat cause since Civil War I, it’s something else to be convinced by the Left slamming a boot in your face. That’s an argument of an entirely different force level.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:33:47 +0000

The entire South is being scapegoated viciously and globally for the deeds of ONE MAN. But hell, all the haters needed was an excuse.

The Democrat party was never going to merely forgive the South for betraying eugenics, racism, slavery, or the Democrat party line. You knew it to be true. They destroyed the lives of many Southerners merely for disagreeing with Democrat politics and religion.

By: starlord

starlord — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:05:02 +0000

Sounds like a wasted decade to me also. If he had taken comments and responded to a few, he might have gotten to know the minds and souls of a few people who took some interest in his thoughts. incidentally, I never visited his blog, so I don’t know what I have been missing.

By: Tonawanda

Tonawanda — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:10:34 +0000

Yay!!!

By: Dale Light

Dale Light — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:20:38 +0000

I won’t miss Sully — like you I quit reading him years ago — but I would miss you if you disappeared from the web. I know I’m not alone in that. Many of us out here appreciate the effort you have been making and look forward to reading your expressed thoughts. Keep it up, kid, and know that your work is not being ignored.

By: Matt_SE

Matt_SE — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:01:35 +0000

If you ever need a vacation, neo, go to Newark.
You’ll suddenly feel better about your own life.

By: Jim Kearney

Jim Kearney — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 04:25:06 +0000

If you ever need it, Neo, take a sabbatical or vacations. I’d recommend Thailand and some great massage up in Chiang Mai. Just make sure to send us a Post Card. Everyone needs a recharge, especially one who feels obligated to satisfy the needs of readers. Live LIFE and smell the Roses, Neo.

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 04:08:47 +0000

I had some back and forth email with Andrew Sullivan, back in I’m guessing late 2001 until whenever it was that he turned on a dime against Bush over gay marriage (which had long been an obsession of his, a matter in which he had a personal investment). When I chastised him over this, he wrote back to say that his opinion of GW Bush had been changing, which I really didn’t think was borne out by the evidence.

I respected him as an excellent editor of the New Republic during some of the years in which it was a very good magazine whose editorial I agreed with by and large.

I for instance informed him exactly where to find some writings of Susan Sontag, who I was very familiar with but whose work Sullivan confided he’d never really read. Sontag’s two collections of essays from the 1960s seemed to me essential reading, even if you ended up strongly disagreeing with some of what she said (as I did then and still do).

History has often been rewritten as to who said what in the early days following 9/11. Many were reflexively anti-American and anti-war as a default position, irrational and emotional, wishing to relive what they saw as the lovely days of Vietnam War protest, the stars of which were never challenged nor forced to defend all the harm their posturing had caused millions of evidently inconsequential Vietnamese.