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The Final Frontier
This still feels a little silly, writing the miscellaneous whatever and posting it to the great nothingness. I’m not a scholar with an intellectual bunker to defend, nor am I an ‘issue’ blogger advancing a tightly held concept. Just some guy in somewhere America, scrawling on his 15 column inches of fame. It still seems a little narcissistic, but also a little cathartic. Maybe it’s the flight from nothingness that appeals. In posting to that great formless yet all-encompassing Internet you become part of something bigger than yourself. With apologies to our father, a sort of confessional and communion with a keyboard. Makes you wonder if the Internet might someday supplant that portion of the psyche that organized religion currently occupies. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch, given that there are 65 million MySpace registrants. The irony is too sharp to measure, millions of people spending more time alone in order to be with other people. Then again, it’s the best way to enjoy other people: Selectively filtered. This is new psychological territory, somebody’s PhD thesis waiting to happen. In the mean time, I’ll just keep pecking away.
Ares
This still feels a little silly, writing the miscellaneous whatever and posting it to the great nothingness. I’m not a scholar with an intellectual bunker to defend, nor am I an ‘issue’ blogger advancing a tightly held concept. Just some guy in somewhere 
1 comment:
You do find yourself being alone to hang out with people. It allows you to be, hopefully, your "best self". You don't have to smell them, you don't have to judge them by their spelling. On line communities can provide all kinds of support that you can't get from your nearest and dearest. My nearest and dearest will never be able to advise me about my fish tank. In fact, he would really rather I didn't talk about "myfish" obsession at all. So I have a group for whom I turn to for information about my finny friends. They give me information that I couldn't get from a book, support, "yeah that sucks, this is what I did".
You need a cathrtic outlet. Hurts no one.
As to it being able to supplant the place of organized religion, well, religion organized or not, is about relationship with a higher being. It gives you a real life changing difference visible to you and those around you. The internet is something that will add to people's lives, but there is no replacing the deep positive changes that God can make in your life.
Keep pecking guy!
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