The greatest weakness of ET, IMO, is an inability to maintain a balance between politics/economics/science, and the arts/humanism/infotainment interests. I call it boxers v wrestlers.
It doesn't have to be a competition. Just as I use ET to learn about the subjects in which I am ignorant, I would expect others to learn something from subjects in which they are ignorant. It's about sharing not winning.
My lack of recent diaries has been the result of exhausting work pressure, but I admit that putting up a diary is not that much work - it's the after sales service that takes so much time. You can't be me, I'm taken
Or Classic v Romantic
Classic (which focuses on the underlying function) and Romantic (which focuses on the outer-lying form)
so that
"Although motorcycle riding is romantic," Pirsig writes, "motorcycle maintenance is purely classic."
