When I began to blog I did not know much about the process. I had to enlist help in setting up a blog site. I then looked at any number of established blogs to determine what sorts of topics were interesting to people. The subjects that I know best did not seem to be among the most popular at the time and they don't seem among the most popular now. I think I now know the problem with my blog.
I'm not the best writer in the world; still, I am certainly not the worst. Writing isn't the problem with my blog.
I'm not the most intelligent person blogging; however, I am not the least intelligent. Intelligence is not the problem.
I'm not the best educated person in the world, but I have had a good deal of formal education. Admittedly that education came from State universities, not the Ivy League. I don't think lack of education is the problem with my blog.
The problem with my blog seems to be a lack of passion on my part. I do not, or so it seems, care deeply enough about anything to be interesting. I have been thinking about a list of things about which I might have been passionate during 2011,
I could have been passionate about Occupy Wall Street. I could have deeply despised the movement or deeply supported the movement. I did neither. Why?
It was and is boring, disingenuous and so 1966. It was, and is, a yawner. It was, and is, for the most part, a group of out of work, not looking for work, unwashed, irritating and lazy people who want to blame the dificiencies of their lives on someone else. They keep working people from getting to their jobs, mothers from getting their kids to school, businesses from conducting their business, and don't change a thing. Sounds like a bunch of the same kind of people who raised a bunch of unnecessary hell during the 60"s. Most of them moved on to be insurance salesmen, elementary school teachers, social workers, soccer moms and the like.
I could have been passionate about the corporate fat cats who screwed the public, not however without our assistance. I believe that the American government is by and large controlled, manipulated and directed by mega corporations. I could be very passionate about this situation, yet I am not. I cannot do one thing about it. I could vote for the current President, Romney, Gingerich, or my mother and it would not make any difference. Big business has ruled from behind the scenes for the past one hundred and fifty years or longer, probably since the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
I could have been irate about the enviroment, the plight of the white mini owl or Global Warming. I am not. Why? Because I do not know the truth about the environment, or the owl whose name I just coined, or Global Warming. I know that I do not want the highways, the byways, the rivers and streams, the mountains or the seas to be further contaminated and I do feel a bit passionate about that. As to Global Warming, who really knows. Of course someone from both sides will tell me that they do know.
I have a friend, a former Air Force officer, a trained meteorologist, who claims that Global Warming is a hoax. I know others who think that it is an established fact. For every scientist who claims that Global Warming is a serious problem there is another who claims that it is not.
I wrote a blog article last year concerning the Social Contract. I said that it is not really clear how the contract should be amended and I was roundly attacked as disingenuous. I was told that all I need to guide me in this area was to follow my conscience. Well, it's not quite that simple
Passion sometimes clouds judgment. In fact it almost always clouds judgment.
Perhaps its not so bad to be a bit dispassionate.
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