The Wardman Wire

This isn’t really the next post in the series [hence the "1.5"] but primarily to point to a couple of replies to my first post. First, there is this very well thought out post from Graachi, who very nicely refers to me as “one of the rising stars of conservative blogging”, and says:

It isn’t merely the quantity of experience that can furnish someone with an aid to understanding politics, but also the quality of that experience. Knowledge and experience are related but they are not necessarily equivalent. To take a simple example there are plenty of seventy year olds who have less understanding than I do of economics, the science of a changing situation than I do, partly because they have never studied calculus. There will be plenty of 18 year olds with a better understanding than mine because they studied economics for longer than I did. It is not merely experience but the type of experience that matters as to whether you understand politics.

Matthew Sinclair also has this to say:

Thunderdragon posts to the Wardman Wire his explanation of why, despite being just 22, he has taken up political blogging.
I had to do a bit of a double-take. “Just” 22?
I started blogging at that age and didn’t consider myself young at all. Thunderdragon is old enough to be not just a graduate but a postgraduate.

That was actually my first response when Matt Wardman first proposed the topic as well.

Both of the posts linked to above - Graachi’s and Matt’s - are very much worth reading. Also, very cleverly, they have both picked up on what is to the general thrust of the real Part 2 in this series, which I hope to be posting tomorrow morning [it was going to be today, but then I broke my glasses].