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| A welcome yawner. |
| 10.23.08 (2:07 pm) [edit] |
Turns out that statistically, blogging has dried up. The majority of blogs are laden with advertising content (look around), and notable bloggers are jumping ship to sites like Twitter. Blogging is no longer the fresh, new, in-your-face way to get heard -or read- by anyone with a browser. No longer is it about that lone voice with something witty or clever to say. People are myspacing, facebooking, twittering and ninging to their heart's content and blogging has become yesterday's news..
There be no humans among us. Darn. The frequency with which I post these days might be some indication of how concerned I am. I've got a tiny little safe haven in which to tuck my thoughts among friends. And I've got a site devoted to my high school that is nearly 1300 strong now - we're considered rather dinky among the other groups.. but most of the other groups are centered around something or someone specific (or is it generic?), like.. Kayaking or Tyra Banks. I have no idea what those people talk about when they log in.. Since all of my school chums were scattered to the four corners of the world, the activity in our little spot is constant and it's leading to a lot of in-person gatherings all across the US. Lately, I'm caught up in the US presidential elections like many other people.. except I'm not clinging to a particular candidate because of my fierce (read: blind) loyalty to one party over another. I'm laughing at the media manipulation, the staunch advocates who distort facts, spew hatred and anger, and the lengths and depths each campaign goes to in order to unearth something that will sway the populace in their direction. Funny enough, most of my classmates from high school have military backgrounds, are or have been active duty at some point in their lives or have an unexplained sympathy toward the military, dare I name it nostalgia? There's a strange mix of blindingly fierce republican support and alarmingly frustrated democratic opinion bubbling over there in my site. From where I'm sitting, it's tough to figure out a couple of things... like how exactly it is the fault of democrats that Fanny and Freddie went bust. I still haven't figured that one out yet, given that deregulation did, in fact, lead to greedy manipulation of the rules that have now collapsed the housing market.. and I don't understand why democrats, who seem so driven (suddenly) to appear the better, more in-touch-with-the-little- people party aren't concerned about the masses of small donations that come in just under the line of accountability for their candidate. We've become so selfish that part of our ideology is that others should 'believe what *I* believe' and it seems to trump the notion that we each have the right to believe in something different. It's clear that if you don't agree with me, than you are wrong. Ummm... okay. Oh, there's so much I could write about, but, hey, it's a blog. (see above) Suffice it to say, it's been entertaining, watching McCain and Obama whore themselves to the American public. Yes, Obama fans, he's doing it too. He's just more subtle about it and is a well-adjusted individual as compared to the ticking time bomb that is McCain. Better to identify it now, than *after* he's done something that has pissed off the whole country. I'm not undecided. Just uncommitted. But for the record: I'm voting anyway. Told you it was a yawner. |
