Whisper to the World
To create a blog is to create a personality, it's the personality that can speak private thoughts publically. I don't mean private matters, I mean thoughts that the mind has as it struggles to understand its world and experience. An individual world is a small world and a small experience and so the mind must be small too as it casts its thoughts to the whole of the World Wide Web. How hollow, huge, and frightening is that thought!
But a blog is a conversation as well. It's really no more than an email to a friend, not so intimidating then, though in this case the friend is not known and who knows where he resides?
And the conversation might be of small things or might be of large, but who thinks, whether the topic be small or the topic be large, that among the vast millions of this earth he is the only one speaking those matters or having those thoughts? In fact, one man's mind is another man's mind, only where that other man might live no one can know. And this is the glory of the net: because it can go anywhere it can touch anyone, and so the conversation is not between me and thee but between me and millions. Each man speaks to another, and in time, in some sense, each speaks to all. In this way the conversation is not small but immense...or at least this is the concept.
This is a sort of preamble to effort: Blog conversation, though disparate, disjointed, disorganized, is the connection potentially of every man to every other, in agreement or disagreement but in conversation. The blog, a new blog, is a whisper to the world. Who knows who will hear? The individual posts are the ephemera of thought, but the things spoken of are history. To enter a blog is to enter history, and this is my intent.
It is to be noted, incidentally, that this is a statement of concept. it is possible that an individual post might be trivial, we all sometimes have spoken of the trivial. But the concept is huge.
But a blog is a conversation as well. It's really no more than an email to a friend, not so intimidating then, though in this case the friend is not known and who knows where he resides?
And the conversation might be of small things or might be of large, but who thinks, whether the topic be small or the topic be large, that among the vast millions of this earth he is the only one speaking those matters or having those thoughts? In fact, one man's mind is another man's mind, only where that other man might live no one can know. And this is the glory of the net: because it can go anywhere it can touch anyone, and so the conversation is not between me and thee but between me and millions. Each man speaks to another, and in time, in some sense, each speaks to all. In this way the conversation is not small but immense...or at least this is the concept.
This is a sort of preamble to effort: Blog conversation, though disparate, disjointed, disorganized, is the connection potentially of every man to every other, in agreement or disagreement but in conversation. The blog, a new blog, is a whisper to the world. Who knows who will hear? The individual posts are the ephemera of thought, but the things spoken of are history. To enter a blog is to enter history, and this is my intent.
It is to be noted, incidentally, that this is a statement of concept. it is possible that an individual post might be trivial, we all sometimes have spoken of the trivial. But the concept is huge.
posted by mouse at 10:07 PM
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