There is a new post up at the Mike Rinder's Blog Accountable Another in the series of essays about the Tone Scale from our old friend Brian Lambert. “Your authority over words is absolute. You are grandmaster of words and can do with them as you will. You know what they mean to others. You know how their meanings and melodies affect others” “You use the minds of men” […] Continue reading...
I wasn’t impressed by this essay. The definition that Hubbard meant was probably: accountable: in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened. Brian avoids this definition. The state of being accountable was seen by Hubbard as being a lower thing than being fully responsible - which is placed along the top of the chart of attitudes if I remember correctly. And that seems fair enough to me. Maybe someone pointed this out in the comments on Mike’s blog, but I couldn’t see it amongst the rush to agree wholeheartedly with what seems to me to be a faulty premise. God knows there are enough legitimate things to criticize, but this doesn’t seem like one of them.
