Today I’m thinking about blogs and posts on the internet, so I’ll make a post about that.
And you will read this post (if there is anyone reading this post, then that is you), or perhaps no you will read this post. For me, the only person I really want to read this post is you.
The internet takes the idea of free speech to the extreme - on the internet, when we say something we are free to say what we want, and many times free from recognizing the consequences, and often free of identity. We are part of the inter-ether, a world where we are voices are equal to those who have a similar skill at computers.
But who do we listen to? What is true? While almost anyone can now say almost anything via the internet, so many people take advantage of it that there seems to be less and less actual content in what is put out on in posts, instead of content there is a lot of fowl language and egotistical ramblings. Mind you, I recognize that I am taking part in this mass of ramblings with the posts on my blog, and I don’t pretend to be better than everyone else. Also, I don’t know if anyone will read my posts, which raises the question, if no one hears (or reads) our free speech, is it speech at all? With so many blogs and posting sites out there, I find it hard to believe that they all actually get read. I don’t even know if mine is read, but it seems to be what is expected of contemporary performance artists - you need to have something out there for people to read, if they would like to.
I think I’m just still trying to figure out exactly where I stand on the whole blog trend.
I also recognize that there are no major revelations in this post, nothing I haven’t heard from various other sources (though I can’t name them, I know I’ve heard all this before), but it’s on my mind because I’m working on a new storytelling where I use the nonsense of internet postings for some humor. It’s what I’m thinking about, and I suppose that’s what a blog is for, to state one’s thoughts, whether the thoughts are actually viewed by anyone seems almost secondary. The important thing is that they’re out there.
