Told Ya'

The premise of my last post - "The New Evangelicalism" - was that people in the blogosphere can comment on anything without filtering it through more traditional means of checks and balances, and this led me to worry that a deeper more self-reflective conversation was receding.No sooner was it posted than numerous comments poured in, some from other bloggers on their websites. The comments were terse:"The author is guilty of doing the very thing he condemns" (to which I agreed)."Pearson slams the Internet.""As an evangelical Christian, I find your words offensive."What's common about responses such as these is their brevity - all of them are one line! I'm not trying to be offensive or angry; instead I'm looking for some kind of discussion on the original premise that a reflective discussion on politics was abating because of the Internet. Instead, all I'm getting is quips. All of us have to do better than this and drive a discussion on how the Internet could perhaps be driving people away from political life and separating us rather than uniting our various communities. If blogging is a positive development for politics, then we need to prove we are capable of something better than this. Could use some help here.