Blogging is peculiar delusion based on the strange expectation that there are more people in the virtual world who understand you compared to the real world. It’s hard to find a more prefect mental distortion.
The Blog Delusion
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The blogosphere and some significant other parts of the internet is the “grey zone” that is unwilling to shrug-off anonymity. Until it does that, there will be none of the “colours” of credibility.
Though expression and open opinion is great and we all can learn so much from blogs it is a platform for abuse and mass distortion to support agenda. Newspapers, journals and magazines are in most part licensed, subject to laws and though disputed does have to a level standards. The blogosphere has none of that because it relies one one single element more than anything else – anonymity.
Until that chnages, the good blogs are simply those that individuals create to express their own opinion and allow some debate or sharing of information and admit to it.
On the other side of the coin, it is easy to see the bad eggs, they claim to represent something other than their own opinion, they spew distortions and condemnations freely without the feer of defemation, they argue the indefencable out of reach of laws, morals and standards and they encourage schoolyard gossip and that psychological feeling of “being able to get away with it”. In fact their topics, however based on real concerns, issues or fears, are more than often destorted to a point that the values is outweighed by their comments.
Donny, did you ever try to blog? You would be good at it.
Ben, thanks for the comment but I a way to blunt from the very centre-right. I am into consensus and long-term goals and strategies and thus have no patience for radical view, quick fixes and those who spout the emotive simple answers. I would become the instant enemy of radicals, be it western or not, political or religious, nationalist or utipian.
My goal is to read and learn to improve myself, express my views and hopefull have that same capacity to understand things to the maximum rub off onto my children.
Cheers
One of the surprising by products of wring is understanding and refinement. Online is set up for the extremes but it doesn’t have to be, I aspire to that.