And sometimes you want to sing...

Peace bloggers. We have an official name, now. Of course, can't have a term without a definition, and my definition of a peace blogger is anyone who believes, as Hodja did, that everyone in the Middle East conflict is right. And we believe this because we know that no one in the Middle East conflict is completely wrong. Takes two sides to make a war. Takes two sides to make a peace.

I guess peace starts with us, doesn't it?

Unlike the typical warblogger, peace bloggers don't always talk about peace. We don't always talk about the Middle East. We don't always talk about this story or that in the "biased and misrepresentational press". In fact, there's a lot of folks who are "peace bloggers" in heart, mind, and soul who don't talk about the Middle East at all. And you know something, that's just cool.

It seems to me that If you subscribe to an extremely narrow view of what's right and wrong, why you'd have to spend pretty much all your time defending your view. So folks like Glenn Reynolds who focus on the Middle East and the evil Arabs and the wrongness of leftist-pinko liberals (me! me!) kind of have to because they've placed themselves on a ledge of belief that doesn't have a lot of give, sure as heck doesn't have a lot of take, and no room at all for movement.

How many warbloggers can stand on the head of a pin?

I know. It does seem as if there are a lot of warbloggers and they get a lot of buzz and a lot of hits per day and we can feel a bit overwhelmed at times. However, I'm finding that the warbloggers also link to each other in a kind of (close your eyes, AKMA) masturbational frenzy of self link love that's a bit, well, kinky. However, that's cool, too.

(I grew up in the generation that firmly believed in "whatever turns you on, as long as you don't scare the cows".)

Just because we're peace bloggers doesn't mean we have to spend all of our time refuting the warbloggers and crying out for peace. If you're a peace blogger and read something that you feel strongly about, then post your thoughts, say the words, hum the tune. However, don't feel you have to speak out just to balance the warblogger word count.

Remember the Vietnam war? Now what was it we were fighting for?

A peace blogger blogs for peace anytime they talk about their dog, show a picture, say a poem, sing a song, debate Post-Modernism, promote a book, talk about our significant others, talk about our kids, our jobs, our friends, about sex (we really do need more sex in weblogging), technology (Radio doesn't count), and generally talk about life and what about life turns us on.

Always with the remembrance that wars result in people who have had their lives turned off. And nothing...nothing...nothing...will ever justify this.

Honk if you want peace, babies.

Posted by Bb at April 18, 2002 01:56 PM