Good Faith, Stupidity, And The Internet:

Essays On The Early 21st Century Internet Culture

 

1) The Failure Of Dialectic  Recently I posted an article in which I ripped the poor professional ethics of Cambridge University Press, for having violated a promise made to me in excerpting a review of mine, and in deliberately slanting their quotation against my piece by quoting out of context and deliberately berating my opinion vis-à-vis a counter-opinion; all under the guise of an impartial textbook. The piece was titled On Critical Fair Play And Ethics: Cambridge University Press’s Contemporary Fiction: The Novel Since 1990, edited by Pamela Bickley. I write these pieces, including this one (the first in a new series of essays on the Internet) for one simple reason; so that later generations will know and understand the tremendous odds that great artists such as myself, my wife, and a handful of others I have known, had in getting their work out to a receptive audience. The battles to find a book agent, an editor, and a publisher who will ‘like’ your work, irrespective of its manifest quality, is bad enough. But there is a tendency to forget history if not scrupulously documented. Thus, I will herein detail some of the online nonsense I, and Cosmoetica, have been subjected to over the last couple of years....