Something side to my last post – about blogging in general.
Lately I’ve come to think about the entire world of posting discussions and opinions as an allusion to a world where we were all telepathic.
That is — the amount of crazy, conflicting things that go through your head at any time would be
1) maddening to the telepath
2) misleading to your “actual nature”
… i.e. You are not your thoughts. A theme of the fiction of telepathic characters that I remember has to do with the training of the telepath to filter out the noise of a person’s thoughts — that the sum of all the thoughts of a person are a incorrect view of their character.
How does this tie to blogging?
Well, How many of us draw an impression of a person on how they blog? What does that actually represent about that person? Does it even matter what a person posits or rants about?
This all becomes more interesting/troublesome as these random bits of information are being used by external parties to paint a digital picture of you and “who you are” (no matter how fallacious that may be).
And another aside: is it that healthy to actually know that much about one another?
I have no real answers, just random meaningless thoughts going through my head.
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Yes, I hate “blog” and “blogging” and such. I’ve given up. *the word itself, not online journaling*