Our Mentor is Kanadan!

I searched everywhere

(From the Director of the Imperial Intelligence, Frau Doktor Anna Smelder-Blorgstrum) Tasked with finding the ideal Interknit/blogstarianism that combined impact with brevity we have uncovered a Kanadan item that is a textbook model of terse single statements, yet one so bulging with self-importance that it apparently shifted a major election within a major world power via dead animals. We have found it to be addressed Interknit-wise as http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/ and it has won awards and accolades from the finest tautological-sycophantic Interknitteries. The Mt. Palomine Institute of Mysteries will scrutinize this reductionist tack--quick sleek sentences and solemn pronouncements, maybe a professionally composed photo of a smug-seeming (angst-ridden being another approved demeanor, or just plain stern) Professor Pille wearing a sweater and slacks standing by a corner office window or near a food processor filled with anxious mice (fear not, it will be unplugged!). Trendiness is at hand! Halleluah! At last we can start saying things by not saying much of anything but really well!

[EDITOR: The drive toward simplicity of expression (not to make the movement sound dignified) hopefully will result in complete silence broken by a scream or whimper now and then. A curious aspect of language, art, and music, is that sometimes complexity begats depth, needed imprecision, irony, subtlety, sublimity, nuance, interrelationships and contradiction. Talk to Bach or Shakespeare. Once all artfulness and communication take on the style and grace of advertising copy and PR spew, something interesting will be lost in the world and our thoughts shall be as a string of stirring slogans which shall suit the masters fine]