tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post396552282289074892..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Philanthropy, red scares and cyber bullyingmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-11092837224707743052008-11-23T19:06:00.000+09:002008-11-23T19:06:00.000+09:00When people worry so much about what anonymous Net...When people worry so much about what anonymous Netizens have said or done—or might say or do—we are giving them inordinate and undeserved power. <BR/><BR/>The press lazily focuses too much on "what Netizens are saying" and anyone with a company or a reputation to worry about furrows their eyebrows as they fret about what the Netizens might say. <BR/><BR/>Enough is enough. Be brave and live and do as if Netizens do not control your life, as if their opinions do not matter. Real-life people are the ones you should listen to, not some anonymous troll with a keyboard and an ISP.<BR/><BR/>No matter what one does, there will be some iconoclastic Netizen who will take the contrarian view and try to tear you down. Ignore them.kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-22157996541623338642008-11-20T20:46:00.000+09:002008-11-20T20:46:00.000+09:00Matt, well, some consistency would be nice. The DL...Matt, well, some consistency would be nice. The DLP, for example, is still leading anti-LMB protests in Chongno on the weekends, during which Lee is regular referred to as a "dictator" and sometimes even compared to Hitler. Hard to say that's no less extreme than calling someone a "commie."King Baeksuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106210206814275410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-7737335176104349742008-11-20T19:13:00.000+09:002008-11-20T19:13:00.000+09:00Rob,Thanks,I'll try to get it up later tonight.Sco...Rob,<BR/>Thanks,I'll try to get it up later tonight.<BR/><BR/>Scott,<BR/>So what you're saying is that the DLP's self-interested condemnation of the attacks on Moon is exactly the kind of behavior that makes people distrust people in the public eye and which helped lead to the attacks in the first place?<BR/><BR/>As for decriminalization, it might lead to a decrease in traffic fatalities.<BR/><BR/>As for Sydney, sorry, it's one of my spelling weaknesses, my achilles heel if you will...matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-79327819056705283912008-11-20T18:34:00.000+09:002008-11-20T18:34:00.000+09:00Tall Poppy Syndrome sounds about right. Just so ha...Tall Poppy Syndrome sounds about right. Just so happens the attacks come in the same year Moon unleashed an image-busting, monster performance as a female painter passing as man in historical drama. We're beginning to see the huge future people have prophesied for her (in a path not uncluttered with duds :D)<BR/><BR/>m.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-87414712431884987002008-11-20T10:32:00.000+09:002008-11-20T10:32:00.000+09:00Sidney? Are you serious? As a Sydneysider I am dee...Sidney? Are you serious? As a Sydneysider I am deeply offended. :P<BR/><BR/><BR/>(It's SYDNEY).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-69114997091354067842008-11-20T09:51:00.000+09:002008-11-20T09:51:00.000+09:00“Calling Moon Geun-young a commie is a sign of soc...“Calling Moon Geun-young a commie is a sign of social pathology… We as a society must stop these abnormal personal attacks.” <BR/><BR/>I was speaking with a Korean friend last week who made oblique reference to this situation, and my conclusion is that Korea has a severe case of "tall-poppy syndrome," as it is called in Australia. The old joke goes something like this: In the US, when your neighbor gets a new BMW, you think, "Gee, I'd like to get one of those, too." In Australia (the original joke actually refers to Britain), your neighbor gets a new BMW and you think, "Gee, I'd like to blow it up!" Isn't there a Korean proverb along similar lines?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, while I agree the overreaction by some rightwing nuts here should be condemned, I am almost equally offended by the seeming opportunism of some of the "progressives" who have spoken out on this matter, including in the above statement. I remember during the mad-cow protests this past summer that protesters were calling up advertisers in conservative papers and making death threats, and beating up reporters from Chosun Ilbo and pissing all over the lobby of the Koreana Hotel, to say nothing of protesters running amok in Chongno and physically attacking ordinary citizens. At the time, however, these same progressive political groups failed to speak out in condemnation of such violent behavior, because of course they decided to milk the situation as much as they could to their own political advantage. I remember even a moderate like Sohn Hak-kyu decided that it was more to his advantage to play the populist card and take the side of the protesters, demanding full renegotiation of the beef deal. <BR/><BR/>So I cannot help but conclude that the objections they are voicing now are based less on solid morals or principles than on self-interested political jockeying. They seem to take a rather selective approach to the culture of witch-hunting here, I must say. No doubt, the rightwingers here like Ji are even more disgusted by such apparent double-standards, which only serves to keep the hatred and extreme rhetoric here on a full spin cycle.<BR/><BR/>My conclusion is that Korea is one country in the world that really does need to decriminalize marijiuana, because there are some seriously uptight people that need to chill the fuck out.King Baeksuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106210206814275410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-72499523164811881292008-11-20T09:30:00.000+09:002008-11-20T09:30:00.000+09:00Wow, Matt. Nice ending.I really loved this post. ...Wow, Matt. Nice ending.<BR/><BR/>I really loved this post. . . I'd be happy if this, or something like it, popped up at The Hub of Sparkle, too.<BR/><BR/>(ps: the word verification word is "winers." hahaha)Roboseyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06308196436612993379noreply@blogger.com