The beginning is the end is the beginning.
So, what next?!
It's been ten years..... or, alternately, 14 months.
I left because I was bored of LJ... and, perhaps, bored of the myself I let myself become.
And you know what? I blame the collective *you* in a way, and not perhaps in a fair way, but thereyago. It's not personal, but it is what it is.
Let me explain... I created this journal ( Read more... )
It's been ten years..... or, alternately, 14 months.
I left because I was bored of LJ... and, perhaps, bored of the myself I let myself become.
And you know what? I blame the collective *you* in a way, and not perhaps in a fair way, but thereyago. It's not personal, but it is what it is.
Let me explain... I created this journal ( Read more... )
Thats exactly right .. the issue is about freedom and where it leads. Its also about social identity. If we could all open up to our own polyamorous sexually polymorphous identities, perhaps the world would be a better place, but the traditional apparatus in place is too oppressive and internalized for most people to make that leap. It threatens relationships, it threatens our jobs, it threatens our carefully built walls and domestic traps we inhabit. You can rail against the masses for their resistance/inability to transcend, but perhaps you should also be more empathetic to the majority, who are hamsters trapped in their own psychic mazes. We are human beings and human beings are confused. The mind is a swamp. I love that quote from DH Lawrence:
"This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed."
Where does blogging fit in to this? Well I think you strongly believe in blogging as a force for social change, a kind of front line in the development of ideas. It certainly has fantastic potential, but its fragile, like democracy. If not enough people care, if they dont participate, if they remain uneducated and lost, then blogging (and democracy) wither away. The garden must be tended. Blogging is like a mirror, like art in this way, and it reflects what we give it, if we can find an audience for our thoughts and reflections. Sometimes it seems to me like shouting in a dark crowded room, mostly inhabited by teenagers BTW, about ones private concerns, which of course are universal. Blogging is a powerful medium, so don't despair.
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"You can rail against the masses for their resistance/inability to transcend, but perhaps you should also be more empathetic to the majority, who are hamsters trapped in their own psychic mazes."
My concern is ultimately with human beings. Giving hamsters -- and lemmings -- understanding and comfort is not a kindness. The true kindness is to offer them an opportunity to be truly human.
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I think we have to be careful in defining a hierarchy of humanity, that is to say that one group is superior because they are more free or transcendent, etc .. this can lead to fascistic ideas about aristocrats and peasants, etc etc. Rather we must try to remain humble, to see that each person has their own unique views and gifts and to try to make an environment where they can become fulfilled. Clearly we don't live in that kind of environment, but we can at least keep dreaming. The world could be so much better. It's like I say: The dream is dead. Long live the dreamers.
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