Mazeppism's Saving Grace

If there is a saving grace to Mazeppism, it must lie in the fact that it is not an "-ism" at all. If anything, "The Mazeppist" (and this applies to its sibloglings as well) is a kind of virtual graffiti; it represents the singular musings of one Logos-obsessed individual--a "philologist" in the most literal sense of that term.

This means that, at its very worst, it is really quite harmless: one peculiar voice drowning in a vast sea of peculiar voices. At its best, it might nod in the direction of a truth or truths, gesture towards something worthy of attention, perhaps even expose something beautiful.

In the end, however, it is utterly idiosyncratic. Or, idio-Socratic. At any rate, nothing to get hung about.