The FV Tavern

Not since the misanthropes of the Enlightenment have I seen that language could be as barbaric, a sharp rapier that tears egos, ideas, persons an reputations. Swift was excellent in using it on Walpole, just as Voltaire in sticking it to Leibniz. But the barbarity of words in the Filipino Voices comment threads must not be expected to be of similar brand to them. I am convinced that, forgive me, FV comment threads are overshadowed by the cloud of soaring egos and of a culture pretending to aim forward but in reality thinks backward; in a plenity of hungry and agitated geniuses couched in the Dark Age of intellect, where worthless pedantry has deprived man of his common sense.

Welcome to the tavern, you all!

I used to admire that collective blog which roster included illustrious figures of political punditry. Though a few times marred by confused philosophies and skewed logic, they are still outweighed by the significance of its impact to the Filipino webspace and beyond. Yet the more it grew, the heavier it seems to have become. It gathered into a snowball not only valid thinkers and debaters, but also idiots, madmen and charlatans who by virtue of overconfidence felt free to plague its threads with indecency and irrationality to the repugnance of the civilized.

If its state of unmoderation continues, it will soon be no different to opinion exchange sites frequented by drunkards with pustular tongues and worse than tumorous brains. Should the ruckus of a pretentious mob ruin the noble causes of FV`s origin?

Let us bring them back again.