Addafication is back online! More posts soon…

We’ve been out of business for the last few days because someone hacked into our administrator account and deleted the entire blog. I have a pretty good idea who did it (and it’s NOT anyone who’s been involved with this blog), and I am sure they are reading this post. I only want to ask, “Why? How does this help your cause - righteous or not - in any way? What does your having done this show anything but wild, unreasonable, unmeasured vindictiveness - precisely of the sort that you’ve been accused of? And why lash out at those who have had nothing to do with your predicament with such stupid behavior? What did you hope to achieve?” 

If readers have a problem with anything we’ve written, then they can always leave comments that are on point. We’ve only ever removed comments that are not on point and are insulting to other commentators. If you have a problem with something we’ve NOT written about - then that really is your problem. We never signed up to be a news agency, and we do not owe anyone a duty to post on any topic. As individuals, we write what we want to write about, and we are fiercely protective of this autonomy of thought and action. This autonomy, I must add, is the same freedom that readers have to choose to visit these pages, and read our posts, and form their opinions as to their quality.  It cannot be stressed enough - particularly because much of what we write about has to do with current controversies with high stakes that generate strong emotions - that each writer who writes on this blog puts forward his/her own ideas and opinions, and these are not reflections of what the rest of the contributors think or believe. Addafication is a forum, not an organization. It is convenience, not a collective ideology that has brought us together here. If there is a collective vision that has generated this blog, it is the principle of autonomy - and the corresponding possibility of multiplicity of outlook - that I have outlined here.