Barbelith and Important Conversations
From Barbelith
Barbelith's relationship to 'important', 'serious' or 'cool' conversations is an interesting one. The balance between fluff and world-changing rhetoric and action is one that has been debated over and over again. Newcomers to the board often think it's too frivolous, or overly serious, or SelfConsciouslyIntellectual ,or trivially pointless... The point is that it's probably all of those things at various times.
This is one of the reasons that the board is broken up into a range of different sections, reflecting the various kinds of activity on the site. These include:
If you want a brief but enlightening overview of interesting, amusing and downright brilliant things that people have said over the years on this board, you could do worse than read the Barbequotes (http://www.barbelith.com/topic/7) thread. It's a compendium of the best (and often the funniest) lines written and hand-picked by Barbelith itself.
