A reader wonders if I liked "The Path" by Craig Anthony. (Intentional or not, I liked how the reader asked me to "show your hand".) Before answering, my blogging style is an amalgam of many others. By writing a list of acknowledgements, but excluding people from the list (consciously or not) would expose the jerk in me, showing you which people I'm copying would expose me as a biter. Suffice to say, many a post is simply a quote without endorsement or criticism. They're usually something I agree or identify with, but they're also usually something just plain well-written.
That said, I'll tip my hand and say I enjoyed reading the Craig Anthony piece. I'm partial to people stating what they really think, especially if the idea is unpopular but compelling. The about page of Divestor, a site administered by a friend, goes some way in explaining my view towards what I call minority opinions: “In order to succeed in the marketplace, not only must you have opinions, but your opinions must be correct, and your opinions must be in the minority. This brings the entire thesis of the site to bear: In order to make money, not only must you be correct, but the majority must be incorrect. [...] The quantity of opinions need not be large - quality is much more important.” (Emphasis in original.) This applies to fields outside of investing, such as, oh, I don't know, opinions towards Iraq. An article by Christopher Hitchens on Paul Wolfowitz is a prime example: Wolfowitz held the minority opinion in government, but when opinion inside of government started changing (in no small measure because of Wolfowitz' efforts), Wolfowitz' value as an opinion-maker and opinionator increased substantially. He was "right" before everybody else was.
Anthony's piece reads like an example of minority opinion. Go ahead, ask your friends, what they think of "submissive" women. I'll let you collate the data while I suggest a hypothesis: most will say that "submissive" women are to be shunned as well as men who like such women. Anthony's piece is compelling that the majority opinion is wrong, that submissiveness—as he defines it—is something to be valued in our society. In fact, if I'm reading him right, it may be in women's interest to be "submissive".
So, in that respect, for the fact that it's well-written and arguing a minority opinion, I can say I liked the article and articles like it. Well, there are other reasons for which I liked it, but you're probably going to have to figure out which parts and why for yourself.
