Obsessions

[degringolade]

 

Romanticism / Frederic Edwin Church/ Twilight in the Wilderness

I am almost to the point of just purging theautomaticearth from my reading.  Used to be quite a good piece of work and quite informative.  Now it is on the verge of becoming a one-trick pony with nothing but COVID bitching 24-7.  I started this blog nonsense in 2006, had my brief moment of fame, and then proceeded to lose readers and interest in keeping them over the last handful of years.

I guess that is because I have realized the futility of thinking that a blog has an extraordinarily small chance of having an effect.  

In a sense, this realization came at the same time as the realization that the internet itself wasn’t really all that useful.  Oh granted, it made the gravy flow smoother into the corporate coffers, so it was touted as a game changer, but for the day to day for “everyman” it is nothing but a way to pander to your current obsession.  

I kinda think that I don’t want the internet to go away.  But I also think that there is a lot of maturing needed by the denizens of this weird land to actually make it useful for things.  Ilargi has fastened on an obsession and is going the way of the dodo with his one-trick pony.