blogging
Blogs. Everyone has one - it's a place where people can place their thoughts out on the web with the idea that somewhere, someone is reading what you have to say and thinking "yes, that does make sense, good guacamole is all about the mix". In reality however, that dreaded state of consciousness in between my ice highs, more often than not its just your friends reading about your everyday mundane goings on like how you go to Borders bookstore everyday and pick up that copy of Dark Desire erotica but always chicken out before you get to the counter because it's always that same cute girl with the brilliant smile and excellent rack waiting to judge you with those come-hither eyes once you reach the counter. I'm sure everyone has a story just like that one.
However, I am tempted to think that perhaps that is not the case. While the initial takeup of blogs and groups were tech savvy teens who unfortunately did not concern themselves with true intellectual discourse ( One infamous facebook group description - "For all of those 8th graders who think they are entitled to hang out flirt w/ 9th grade guys, and can wheedle themselves into HIGHSCHOOL parties, im sry u r in eighth grade..um soo stop. DONT think we hate you tho") more and more blogs are now run by older professors, lawyers and other such intelligentsia looking to discuss weightier topics such as politics, religion etc. The internet is not more and more shaping up to be the new front in the war for hearts and minds, much like television, radio and the newspaper before it. For example, look how much controversy one (now ex)anonymous poster caused when uploading a anti-Hilary pro-Obama ad on Youtube. Intellectuals are now flocking to the internet for dialectic that before were confined only to stuffy monthly periodicals and journals. And the beauty about this is, it is much more accessible than the aforementioned methods, especially by the ordinary man and woman. Of course there are disadvantages (sometimes the ordinary man or woman is uninformed or just plain stupid), but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Which brings me to this: never has the flow of information been so fast, so instantaneous. And this has all happened in the last 5 to 10 years. We are on the cusp of what could be the greatest revolution humanity will see in this or the next century - a Golden Age of information where the great dialogues of the age to rival that of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, except on such a grand scale that would blow the minds of even those great thinkers of history.
It really makes you think.
posted by jaseypoo! @ 9:14 PM
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