Diary of a Bitter Blog
actually, this isn't my first time to put up a blog, but i have been disappointed with my first two attempts. both times, i went inside, secure in my belief that what i will create is something far from the mundane, a refreshing repository of ideas (no matter how banal, impractical, or downright stupid) that will at least in the long run assure me that older is really wiser.
anyway, why do we blog?
have you ever played the role of Secret Keeper? except from the concern arising from the possibly dangerous or embarassing consequences of spilling the beans, there is nothing to motivate a person to keep one's thoughts to themselves? Why should you? ideas are meant to be explored, in as much the same way as a bomb is always designed to go off. Of course, in most cases, bombs and ideas are best left deactivated. Blogs are a great way to unhinge the lid.
Blogging is also a very rewarding experience for the vain and selfish - which is all of us for one time or another. The sanctity of the blog allows you to spill your guts out, unintterupted, for only those who care to listen. And you're not obliged to listen back, unless you're one of those asinine dimbulbs who expect blogs to be nothing more than an online chat/pager transcript where threads of conversation start with "good mawnin! how do you feel today?" Like everything else, blogs are wasted on the stupid.
Another good thing about the blog is that long sentences like the above are also not subject for negotiation. So is grammar, punctuation, and subject-verb agreements. Your audience wouldn't care if you press F7 before you upload. What they're after are the tiny bits of information that drip from the main passages, giving them a miniscule but crucial bit of knowledge they can later use to psychoanalyze you. You don't need a good voice to howl at the moon, do you? The end result is the same: you vex the entire neighborhood.
Finally, the blog is dictatorial. You choose what to say, and who reads it. You give out blog addresses and passwords to those you think deserving, and bar the nitwits until you feel charitable. In short, it is nothing like real life. More like porn.
we blog because we are.
anyway, why do we blog?
have you ever played the role of Secret Keeper? except from the concern arising from the possibly dangerous or embarassing consequences of spilling the beans, there is nothing to motivate a person to keep one's thoughts to themselves? Why should you? ideas are meant to be explored, in as much the same way as a bomb is always designed to go off. Of course, in most cases, bombs and ideas are best left deactivated. Blogs are a great way to unhinge the lid.
Blogging is also a very rewarding experience for the vain and selfish - which is all of us for one time or another. The sanctity of the blog allows you to spill your guts out, unintterupted, for only those who care to listen. And you're not obliged to listen back, unless you're one of those asinine dimbulbs who expect blogs to be nothing more than an online chat/pager transcript where threads of conversation start with "good mawnin! how do you feel today?" Like everything else, blogs are wasted on the stupid.
Another good thing about the blog is that long sentences like the above are also not subject for negotiation. So is grammar, punctuation, and subject-verb agreements. Your audience wouldn't care if you press F7 before you upload. What they're after are the tiny bits of information that drip from the main passages, giving them a miniscule but crucial bit of knowledge they can later use to psychoanalyze you. You don't need a good voice to howl at the moon, do you? The end result is the same: you vex the entire neighborhood.
Finally, the blog is dictatorial. You choose what to say, and who reads it. You give out blog addresses and passwords to those you think deserving, and bar the nitwits until you feel charitable. In short, it is nothing like real life. More like porn.
we blog because we are.
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