I'm often asked why I blog and I really have no good answer. It seems like it's one of those things that's just a daily habit.
Reading Ann Althouse's article in today's New York Times, however, crystalized things:
Let life on the blog unfold like off-blog life.
I can understand the urge to enforce standards in the blogosphere, but my inclination runs the other way. Watching a video dialogue on the Web site bloggingheads.tv (where I regularly participate), I rankled when the columnist Eric Alterman said:
“I think it would be good if we had some sort of, you know, blogging — you know — council, where we could condemn people. ... You could still blog if you want. Nobody’s going to stop you. But ... everybody’s gonna know that you’re not to be trusted.”
What undermines my trust is that impulse to control. Those who want such things worry me as much as a candidate with too little body fat.
Eric, let it go! Just like in off-line life, people are full of deception, all too often self-deception. No amount of control will change that. It's sort of like saying, "When you meet a new person they should give you the results of a personality test with comments of their fellow community members attached." What makes a community, in this case the blogging community, so rich is that people have the freedom to be who they want to be. And that includes Eric.
I agree with Ann, what is scary is the inclination to control others.
I blog to think.
John:
Great post. I,too, blog to think. Along the way have met some amazing people who I never would have connected with if we all hadn't been thinking out loud on our blogs.
Lois
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