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The Dazzling Architecture of the Uninhabitable...
October 22, 2007
I would like to start blogging again. I would like to start putting out posts that have no moral/societal relevance whatsoever other than what the readers (however sparse) may assign. I don't know why I stopped, but I would like to get back in the habit, and what better time than the present.
Why did I stop blogging in the first place? I don't know, exactly. I know that I have grow increasingly disillusioned with the entire concept of news blogging. I thought about it pretty hard today, while walking, and I think right now I am just having a difficult time imagining that all the complaining actually does anything. I honestly don't think there's enough of a difference between republican and democrat to change the direction in which we are heading. Sure, there are some policy differences, and a degree to which the left might slow our descent into whatever a non-religious person might call "hell on earth," but I think the problems in this world are larger than that. And I think it's a shift in individual consciousness and, hopefully, collective consciousness that is needed to make a change.
No, I have not converted to any sort of bizarro cult, either. hahaha.
And, look...some of the idiots on the left irritate the shit out of me. For one thing, around here there's this whole "keep austin weird" contingent...and the "no wal-mart" crowd. On the surface, those sound like concepts I would agree with. But I dunno. It didn't take very long for me to get into a conversation with one of the no wal-mart people and realize that it's not Wal-mart that a lot of these idiots don't want. It's "those people" who shop at wal-mart (yes, I actually had someone from my disgustingly yuppified neighborhood say that to me) that are undesirable. I find it difficult to associate myself with a movement against large chain stores that isn't also against rampant consumerism in general. And I think that hypocrisy is what has made me feel incredibly blog-averse for a long time now.
And don't think I'm excluding myself from that judgment. Another huge part of my hesitance to blog about news and politics anymore is my own hypocrisy. Or, at the very least, my own reluctance to issue moral truths as if I somehow have a handle on right and wrong that no one else can figure out for themselves. I just don't.
Instead, what I am going to try to get back to doing is relating my experiences and my revalations and my own ideas about what it all means to me. I don't want to argue with anyone about what it means to them, and I don't want to assert my point of view as the only acceptable way of looking at things. I just want to WRITE. And be heard to whatever extent people want to hear me. I don't want to end up arguing with people about strollers again only to read countless posts from people who disagreed with something I said or some way I said it five years ago and use my frequent bouts of stupidity as a springboard to act like morally superior assholes. I fully admit I am an idiot. I have no answers. I only know that I have a way of looking at the world that I kind of want to share with other people. I miss it. I want to make time for it again.
The End.
Oh, P.S. Since I am, in fact, a total hypocrite...don't be surprised if I go around mouthing off on occasion. There's only so much mileage I can get out of talking about butterflies, spiders, and cute children. hahaha.
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