Since I changed blog platforms, I’ve been back on the Twitter/X platform to try to get the word out about the new URL for the blog. This has reminded me, alas, of my prior observations about Twitter, all of which remain true unfortunately. Interacting with the members of the Strauss cult in recent days brought to mind, in particular, this:

There is a huge amount of impotent rage on Twitter, no doubt because many of its most active participants are people without real status, accomplishments or positions in the world.  As Nietzsche diagnosed in On the Genealogy of Morality, impotent rage satisfies itself with the imaginary revenge of inverting values and reality to satisfy the desire for actual vengeance.  (For mysterious reasons–given my boring opinions and mild-mannered persona–some of this impotent rage and its revaluation comes my way:  I have been amused to see people on Twitter annoyed with me declare, inter alia, that my Nietzsche work isn’t good, that my legal philosophy work isn’t good, that no one reads my blog, that no one pays attention to the PGR rankings, and on and on.)  The impotent rage is exacerbated by the group polarization effects of the medium, in which a circle of similarly impotent and enraged people encourage each other into believing ever more extreme versions of their alternative vision of reality

Unfortunately, it’s quite clear that Twitter/X drives more traffic to the blog than Bluesky, and it’s also easier to post directly to Twitter/X from the blog. So for the time being, I’m stuck there.