I think it may be the case that your possession of a tidbit of trivia and your particular interpretation of changes/reforms that came after Vatican II is causing you to interpret my comment in a different light than it was meant.
I was actually envisioning something closer to the monastery that Alyosha was a part of in The Brothers Karamazov. It reminds me of the cliché admonishment of priests that pray in the streets (something that pops up in the Bhagavad Gita long before it does in the words of Jesus). It is worth pondering the lengths to which monks would go to prove their holiness was genuine and not the result of seeking attention.
It is true that at the time of my writing the comment, the top comment was a popular blogger extolling the benefits of clout that one might gain from writing a blog that gains some following. But in general, that is a feat most will never achieve. For the rest, they are more like the premodern adherents, doing the ritual for some other reason. The blog post we are discussing is literally about that kind of self-justification.
If you know you will not (or perhaps should not) blog to gain an audience, why should you do it?
I was actually envisioning something closer to the monastery that Alyosha was a part of in The Brothers Karamazov. It reminds me of the cliché admonishment of priests that pray in the streets (something that pops up in the Bhagavad Gita long before it does in the words of Jesus). It is worth pondering the lengths to which monks would go to prove their holiness was genuine and not the result of seeking attention.
It is true that at the time of my writing the comment, the top comment was a popular blogger extolling the benefits of clout that one might gain from writing a blog that gains some following. But in general, that is a feat most will never achieve. For the rest, they are more like the premodern adherents, doing the ritual for some other reason. The blog post we are discussing is literally about that kind of self-justification.
If you know you will not (or perhaps should not) blog to gain an audience, why should you do it?