June 18th, 2007

Thanks to the folks who responded with support and sympathy to my last post about a vicious torturing camp counsellor. You ever wonder why I sometimes have an issue authorities abusing their power? It might have something to do with it.

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

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It's definitely time to face a startling and maybe unpleasant fact: These rants are slowly but surely skipping to a stop after 3-1/2 years. In that time their scope has generally broadened, I've also written some fun stuff, and still find time for occasional mundane pointless rants of grumpy intolerance. But I find day after day that anything I have to say now is not any different from things I've said before.

Blogging in general is an odd little hopeful expression of one's desire to get the whole world to see one's point of view. We bloggers raise our words to the not-so-elevated heights of an online journal, in hopes that we can make some point to some people who may want to read it and who may get it.

We write, sometimes very self-consciously, with the idea that there is an audience now or maybe in the future. And I think I've received a blessing that way: I get dozens of hits on my blog, especially in the day or two after I post a new entry. But nobody ever goes through and reads the bulk of them. Heck, there are just scads and scads of these rants, and I don't think anybody is interested in reading the equivalent of 2 or 3 full-length novels of intolerance, ranting, social perspective (which may not coincide with anyone else's), and downright invective.

You know what my (and many others') blogging reminds me of? The little bossy kids you see often in the playground who encounter kids who are doing something differently from the way they are used to seeing. And the kids shout, "You are supposed to do it this way! That's all wrong!" Well, we bloggers are, to a lesser or greater extent, just like those kids: "This is MY WAY. Your way, though I don't really know anything about it, is the wrong way!"

I'm just plain out of ideas. I know I said that about a year ago, and proceeded to write another 75 or 80 entries. But I really mean it this time: my blog entries are going to get fewer and farther between, and some day there will be no new ones for weeks or months.

You just watch.

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