Mooreover / Blog

I think a lot of people are going to have mountaintop experiences soon.

It won’t be right away – everyone has to descend from their pedestal into the valley, where many will live on a diet of dust. I’ve been in the valley for a little while, waiting. I’ve tired of my diet here, and my ears are starting to hear a swelling drumbeat from a distant height.

I’ve been too easily distracted. Too much time spent on things that don’t matter, too much time spent on things that matter to other people.

I’ve said that the blog is going to change, maybe even go away. To some degree I’ve come to find the very premise of blogging nauseating. Let me explain: when I sit down to write, I’m not nauseated by that. But I’ve read hundreds (if not thousands) of blogs, and the fascination is starting to wear thin. Everyone in the world has a blog, sharing their thoughts and opinions like they’ve earned a right to be heard. I’m thankful for the blogging medium, and I think that it’s done a lot to keep the news media accountable, but save a few examples, I think that blogging makes people lazy intellectually. I read a blog recently where I felt thrown up on – that the writer just expelled as many thoughts as possible without any sense of order or connection (and I’m horrified to realize that I’ve done the same thing many times here). Most bloggers have so many thoughts that they can’t even take the time to use full words or complete sentences, and everytime I trip across an OMG or LOL landmine I’m reminded that quantity of thought is no replacement for quality of thought.

If I try to use this blog as my vehicle for writing and thought, it’s going to be a short trip. I’m not abandoning the blog, but I am going to be taking fewer trips with it, hopefully because I’m working in a medium that challenges me to write more coherently. This might mean that someday I’ll even have clarity of thought, which might even more blog posts.

So I’m taking myself out of the valley. I’m headed for rarer air.