Now that the elementary first blog is out of the way I would like us to take a step back (make sure you look behind you first) and look at what is going on here. I find this helps in all walks of life and although we don't always find answers, we're always better off after a bit of a think and a nice sit down.
So, what's this blogging business all about? Typically I find blogs to be self-important rants on just about anything, kind of like talking to an irate grandparent who is emphatically aware that this planet we live on is "not like the good old days" and just wants to grumble. That's alright by me, as long as I am not chained up and forced to listen to non-sensical drivvle which would probably make a man want to wear his pants on his head and put two pencils up his nostrils claiming insanity and an overdue holiday. In a way it's good for people to vent whatever they need to, be it lunacy, rage or the gaping abyss of emptiness that comes of growing up in a culturally defunct, sub-urban background. These are personal blogs of the lowest order, beneath the lowest common denominator, these are just bundles of debris that are shot out into space and there should be an international agreement for blogging like there is for space junk. Eventually it might just come back and bite you, with jagged pointy teeth in a soft and wobbly place. Technical blogs have a focus, there is a point and a line joins up the dots to make a picture. Pictures, I think you will agree are nice. But a young person with a sharp biro is a dangerous thing.
I think another problem with blogging is the position of authority that a person feels when sat comfortably in front of a keyboard. We have a need to find purpose in our lives and part of that is finding our place in society. Now this is nothing new. Galileo told people that the Earth wasn't the centre of the solar system and some people didn't like this clever fellow so told him to shut up or get locked up. He didn't know his place in relation to il Popo and was forthwith never allowed to leave his house. Before that a bearded fellow named Moses climbed a big old mountain called Sinai and, obviously pretty tired from his troubles and a bit dehydrated from rambling in the desert, had a little chat with God, then came down with a list of commands, a handful of plagues and led 'God's chosen few' out of the desert culminating in the dilemna that is modern day Israel. You see? This is what happens when people get big ideas, big ideas that won't fit in their boots.
So this week's theme is knowing your place. Knowing that you are not the work of a benevolent higher being that has toiled for millenia just to hear what you have to say about their mistakes and misgivings, which has to be a good thing. Scientists might tell you that you are made from wind blown particles made in the cores of celestial bodies, star dust. I think it's also pretty funny that we are an infinetesimally small blip on an otherwise non-eventful universal radar. There are laws and errors of margin that the cosmos does not allow and depite a tight grip on everything else we seem to have slipped through the net, able to do and say as we like. We are a little bit like cosmic jesters!
My point is simply that we should smile and not take ourselves too seriously, or each other for that matter. Why don't you take somebody a nice cup of tea instead?
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