Opinion: Acknowledged at last!
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My recent meditation on not getting thanked had the desired effect of making Brian Doherty feel really guilty, and the Radicals for Capitalism author sends in a reminder that he has actually given me a round of applause in the past. Here he is quoted in an insanely long and maniacally researched history of Suck.com, in which Doherty makes an extraordinarily kind judgment on the site’s final days when, like Hitler in his bunker, I found my dedication to the cause rising in direct proportion to its hopelessness:
‘Tim began more or less writing every essay himself,’ says Brian Doherty. ‘I thought it was just a bravura performance that should be one of the classics of a writer rising to the occasion and doing superhuman things. It ought to be noted and long remembered.’
As it happens, I never read that Suck history because I was so off my game when the writer interviewed me that I was sure I’d sound like a total jackhole in the final article. I have been assured by reliable sources that instead I came off sounding like ‘the Fitzcarraldo of Suck,’ which I took to be a great compliment, and now I think I know what that means. So hats off to Brian, hats off to the late lamented Suck, hats off to the history of libertarianism, and most importantly, hats off to me!