Journal Journal: mundane thoughts from a mundane mind. 1
Writing is like a muscle, it must be exercised regularly in order to increase it's performance and abilities. Unfortunately, right now my brain is about as blank as it usually is after being at the gym for an hour.
This trend of blogging is predicated upon the idea that a lot of average people will have startilingly interesting things to say. The reality, which may become more apparent as time goes on, is that a lot of ordinary people have ordinary things to say.
That's not to say that ordinary thoughts are not without value. There's a certain comfort found in knowing that other people (repeatedly, ad nauseum) have the same thoughts, concerns, worries, dislikes, and likes as you do. It can re-enforce the common bonds between each of us as living, breathing human beings who are doing our best to make it from one day to the next.
People looking for conspiracies, indictments of conservative policies, verbal thrashing of liberal philosophies, or condemnation of the evils perpitrated by some one or some group of people who have more power/money/sex/drugs/food/shit than the author will certainly find them. The people looking for these things will certainly believe that this "evidence" is irrefutable, and substatial, despite being a statistical anomaly among all the other thoughts being published. This is ironic, given that it's now easier than ever before to do a comprehensive tally on who thinks what. But just as it was before the internet age, when thoughts went into books, magazines, and papers, people will tend to ignore what they don't care about.
This trend of blogging is predicated upon the idea that a lot of average people will have startilingly interesting things to say. The reality, which may become more apparent as time goes on, is that a lot of ordinary people have ordinary things to say.
That's not to say that ordinary thoughts are not without value. There's a certain comfort found in knowing that other people (repeatedly, ad nauseum) have the same thoughts, concerns, worries, dislikes, and likes as you do. It can re-enforce the common bonds between each of us as living, breathing human beings who are doing our best to make it from one day to the next.
People looking for conspiracies, indictments of conservative policies, verbal thrashing of liberal philosophies, or condemnation of the evils perpitrated by some one or some group of people who have more power/money/sex/drugs/food/shit than the author will certainly find them. The people looking for these things will certainly believe that this "evidence" is irrefutable, and substatial, despite being a statistical anomaly among all the other thoughts being published. This is ironic, given that it's now easier than ever before to do a comprehensive tally on who thinks what. But just as it was before the internet age, when thoughts went into books, magazines, and papers, people will tend to ignore what they don't care about.
