The big fora are dead. Long live the blogs!

But small forums can still work I think. On FNB we have a forum of bloggers in a way. There's no herd mentality here.

Permanentstyle also misses the irony of using Scottie's blog as an example of how he imagined people should be dressed.

I lost interest after I read further and he states that a pocket square and tie when worn together are "caricatures" and one should experiment with wool suits and converse shoes!

So much flotsam; he condemns the cream suit as caricature - but anything one wears will be perceived as caricature by some proportion of viewers. If an outfit has any currency or precedence at all, it will naturally solicit the impression that the wearer has intended to invoke a particular paradigm - or, in more extreme cases - proud membership in some sect, cult, or gang. This is why the blatant brand whoredom should be no cause for fevered indignation; after all, a brand - whether it be the brand of a corporation or the brand of a tailor or the brand of a style of tailoring -  is but a vehicle to the same psychological end. Vehicles are not all equal but no sense in any one of the passengers pretending that they too are not taking a ride instead of walking their own path.

I dunno... It's the quality of the blogs compared to the fora which makes me wonder.

Forums are all "Apha Posters", "Echo Posters", "Mutualy Dependant Posters", Etc., - The dynamics of them all seem set in stone now. It gets stale.
Only the Trolls make them readable.

IMHO.

J.

Last edited by mafoofan (2008-05-19 09:24:48)