Sunday Morning Blog

November 11, 2005

Back to Sunday Morning

I'm back. It took me all of two months to get back to blogging on my home page. I don't know that you can call one post "back" really, but it is a start. Two months ago, I was asked to start my "own" blog on Cape Cod Today. I am honestly unsure about what moved me to go back after my bad experience with them earlier this year. Having more of an audience to interact with is surely a plus, but it also has its drawbacks. Once you are in the spotlight, it becomes difficult to stop arguing and defending your views. However, babbling to oneself can get a little tiresome, and that is often how it has felt here. On CCToday there is rarely a concern of having no audience. Here, it is often like dropping a pebble into a bottomless pit.

Blogging has become an online diary for many people, but for other's it is so much more. In May of 2003, way back in the beginnings of this blog (which was then titled Life by the Drop, before finding that name was already in use) I was making posts about things political and expressing my support for Cape Wind among other things. Back then I received no feedback, so the politics and expression of my views were limited and not quite so passionate. On CCToday I get that feedback, and it brings out the conviction of my beliefs. Blogging in that kind of environment is like being part of a live editorial page. There is certainly no shortage of fans or critics. Blogs in forums like CCToday should allow commenters thumbs up or thumbs down options to accompany their comments. Perhaps that would be forcing people to be too black and white about their opinions though. So often there is that middle ground that a thumbs up or thumbs down just can't convey. On CCToday, you rarely if ever witness that grey area. It is all or nothing, pro or con, black or white, good or bad... there is rarely middle ground (except by those who have proclaimed themselves the sole posessors of open-mindedness). When the middle ground appears it is only an illusion. It is a trick played by those who are casting themselves in the light of their own game of self deception.

What I am trying to say is, blogs like CCToday are chock full of B.S. artists and people who are so vain they can't see beyond their own grand vision of themselves. They are so self-important and seem to have such a monoploly on right thinking that there is no possibility of reasonable discourse. That is the fun of it I guess. Debating the issues is what I was after, so I really can't complain. Placing value on opposing views is critical to getting along with people, and there seems to be far too little of that going on. For now, we should be happy that everyone is not just running through neighborhoods burning cars I suppose. At least there is some communication, although perhaps not between the people who should be expressing themselves.

This is certainly not my typical blog post. I promise an attempt at regaining that humble, back to blog feel again. I will leave the CCToday site for the politics and matters of culture and society that I feel most passionate about. I will work toward restoring Sunday Morning to its simple beginnings as a window into day to day Drew... if for nobody else, then just for myself.

Posted by capecodcyclist at November 11, 2005 06:53 PM