Ryan asks - nay, demands! - share your projections!

I used to be much bigger about sharing openly, in my 20's.  There is both a certain beauty, and a certain innocence, in sharing "what is happening in me now".  However, I also discovered that sharing can sometimes be - simply embarrasing.  TMI is a phrase that was coined for a reason.

Now, I like to be embarrasing sometimes - this is also true.

For now, I'll go the easy way - share a projection I have, that gets across a "point I'd like to make", but also includes a shadow element, because in this case - DEFINITELY  I have 9 fingers pointing back at me, for every 1 figure pointed at that other guy.

I think there is a disease - in the blogosphere, and, in the world - called the "I Am Right" disease. 

People who are RIGHT - engage in propaganda and fallacious arguments, rather than dialogue - just because they are RIGHT.

People who are RIGHT, brook no argument, justify their position constantly, and - around being called wrong - react in all types of strange manners.

People who are RIGHT - especially combined with POWER - commit some of the worst crimes on this earth.

However - sometimes someone IS right.  If I say it's DAY and you say it's NIGHT - guess what?  There is a right answer and a wrong answer here.  Look outside.  (Yes, yes, the wise guy there in the back in Ireland is saying "it's night over here! nya nya nya!" - but that is beside the point.)

And especially for those on the cutting edge of something, they may be right, when other are wrong - for awhile.  (Galileo being the prime example.)

Integral "solves" this problem by saying "every perspective is valid - but my perspective is MORE INCLUSIVE than yours".

But guess what?  We are human.  Especially here in the "read what I have to write!" blogosphere, we can often be wrong, our perspective can often be off.  And what we are writing about - is NOT whether gravity exists, or whether it is day or night outside, or whether 2 plus 2 equals 4.  As such - the "truth" is not so clearcut all the time. 

I prefer to think of good analysis and commentary as using inquiry, intelligence, and analysis, combined with perseverance, openness, and honesty - and constantly re-discovering  the "truth" as more data and perspectives are considered.  

But that attitude gets lost in pissing matches of "I am Right"ness. 

So here is my request.  I would like everyone who both reads this blog and who has a blog - to point out one time (at least) where they were in obvious disagreement in the blogosphere - where YOU were wrong - and the OTHER person was right.  

So - in THIS particular game - the more "moral" and upstanding person is - refreshingly honest about saying - "Dude, I totally whiffed on that post!  Sometimes I'm an IDIOT!!".

Who's with me!!

Now, one would think - I would LEAD the way - and I will!

The other day, I posted that Cox Communications was blocking Craigslist.

Well, I totally totally whiffed on that post.  If you read a comment to the post, apparently,  it was the security software provided by Authentium, that had a glitch in the software driver. 

Sorry!  Sometimes I'm an idiot!!

Anyone else?

Also - I'll provide more, since of course I am less identified with the content of that post - this blog isn't called "Security Software".  But I'll need to time to find out when I've been wrong [editor - yeah, he needs time - since I guess he thinks it doesn't happen very much...].

Of course, feel free to help me out with that!!