blog conscious

with the ubiquity of blogs, there seems to be a growing consensus that blogs have become the whipping boy of our anxiety. more people are making the push to write about the external rather than the internal. a noble goal, no doubt as it's never as interesting to reading about a fellow person's neurosis as it is to write about.

so-- with the exposing of memoir writers as frauds, we all want to write honestly, yet in doing so pledge to write about the superficial (meaning, things above and beyond the surface [self] as opposed to only surface deep.)

i've always wanted my writings to be based, however loosely on observations and insight; a way to inform and simultaneously be informed. but why add to the cacophony of voices struggling to be heard? why not just write for it own sake, and accept whatever form of therapy it provides in the moment.

i'd be happy with that.

think of it like a sound wave. when two waves of the same pitch clash they actually cancel each other out. so if you are contributing to the echo chamber, be that politically of otherwise, not only are you reiterating what's already been stated, you are in effect negating it's importance and message.

i'm always reminded of what sam philips - a music producer at sun records in the 50's and sixties- said "if you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything."

so why not just say it, because to define something is to make in definite, rather than infinite. and limitations can destroy writing.