One blog after another. Each becoming more exact and more precise than the last. I was blogging back when blogging wasn't cool, then it was, now it isn't again. Nobody reads. Talking to my dad today we discussed some ills. "Nobody reads.", he said. "Nobody reads.", I replied. Not necessarily true, people read, kind of..
I suck down a cold can of Coke. A luxury I indulge in often. Pondering on many things, trying to determine where my thoughts will lead me. A kind of philosophical adventurer I jump from stray thought to stray thought. Knowing whatever topic I tackle, I'll tend to offend someone. If they read, that is..
Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Conservatives, Liberals, Socialists, Fascists, a slew of words that get bandied about on any major news network. The words don't mean anything anymore. They get re-defined and used so often that the emotional smack is now lost forever. Like the word 'Nigger'. It's not nice to use that word, especially by a white man. The word has lost it's intensity. We know this when we watch movies, or listen to music, one black person uses it to define another. We don't even flinch any more, lest a white man says it. It's a verbal culture because nobody reads..
Nobody reads, the words are dead, and ideals have been lost. A natural progression I suppose. If I get a reader to actually finish the essay I am surprised and elated. Read the first paragraph, then comment something shallow and meaningless. Something benign like, "Great post!" That's about it. Nobody got the idea. A few will get to the word 'Nigger' that I used in the above paragraph and post something harsh. Our society has to keep racism alive. Racism provides jobs, just ask Jesse Jackson. "Ha! There it is!" You might say. "He's a Republican. He's a conservative. He's a Fascist." If I am it doesn't matter, because nobody reads..
So, what's next? One era, melding into another, one year bleeding into the next, hardly noticeable if it weren't for the changing of the seasons. The leaves turn auburn, then brown, then are gone. Only to be replaced by small buds, flowers, then the thin green veil that continues the cycle. Is society this way? Is every season, every iteration like the last, like the next? A repetitive process, a cyclical rhythm continues to elude us. Just different enough to disguise itself so we believe we are doing something new? It's lost in any case because nobody reads..
It wasn't long ago that nobody read. Nobody read because few knew how. Scribbling on small scraps of paper, people 'made their mark' because they couldn't write. One social tapestry after another. We all know how to read, write, and most definitely type. But nobody reads, not really. A few 'Facebook' comments, maybe just enough to 'Google' something. Amazing that we have this 'World Wide Web' and aside from purchasing, social networking, and porn it is used for not much more. Piles and piles of knowledge and data have been painstakingly typed into this electronic medium. But nobody reads, the words are dead, ideals have been lost, so we just wait and watch for the next iteration.
Well,Rob perhaps your father is correct, but why do "we" not read and further, what is the purpose of said read? I find that folks are topped off w/ information and fed up w/ intellect. Stagnate would be my description, and that because we have lost the purpose of life, love and the pursuit of justice.It can be noted that God confounds the wisdom of the wide..could that be stated that in all our learning we are forced to admit be are merely confused at a high level? We would love to be Rambo, yet are indoctrinated w/ Plato and end up as Cliff Clayvern, fooling no one but ourselves as we tolerate life w/ shallow purpose. My questions are things like, do we believe a matter to the point of living or dying for said purpose? For me the culture of the church tends to dumb down the masses, leaving no place for more than agreeing w/ the "weakly" speech. Where is the discussion that stirs men to ownership of mission? Are leaders afraid to lose control? It was stated by one radical contributing author to the greatest book of all time that "without controversy the mystery of Godliness remains". I'm for a little controversy if it gets the wheels moving. Is it fair to say people do not want to separate "writers opinion" from fact because it requires interlocutrix? And after all what writer does not opine? Well,that's one cracker to another, yeah ,I said cracker. By the way are we saltines or butt cracks?
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I'm not sure what the term Cracker means when directed at white people. It actaul or origenal meaning ( a Braggart or Jokester or one who Jokes all the time ) Maybe black people just didn't think slavery was all that funny?! LOL I really don't think that it has any thing to do with the BUT CRACK. But I know this, most black people have no idea what the N word actually means. It's true meaning has nothing to do with color and or race. It's actaul meaning is simply ( one who is lazy ) Now what else would you call a man whom you are trying to get yet an extra hour of work out of, who has already by forced labor worked twelve hours in the field? Like Rob said, words no longer have any meaning, now it's just means a black person. In it's actaul meaning it applies to any person black or white who is Lazy. But you could never get a black person to believe that, seeing that the use of the word has so much been applied to black people, so that it true meaning
ReplyDeleteand use has been lost. Case in point. The word FAG a most hated word among Homosexuals. This word actually mean The Butt end of a Cigarette or Cigarette Butt, and GAY simply means to be Happy or full of Joy. But call a Gay person a FAG, you could be charged these days with a hate crime. Rob is right words have no meaning and have completely lost all value. Up is down, In is out, Right is wrong, Good is Bad, it's no wonder no one believes a word that comes out of any ones mouth any more.