SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) From Harper’s Magazine, December 1920.
This instant. What emotion is playing their tune in your heart and mind? Anger, frustration, depression, happiness, pride, envy, lonesome, greedy, lazy, hungry, lustful, enthusiastic, impatient, disillusioned or a whole plethora of feelings all mixed together?
Will we do something about it? If we are driving and someone cuts you off, will you roll your window down and shout? Give a finger perhaps? Why? Don’t worry this is natural. A norm for the society we live in, one that exacts retribution based on our pride and prejudices.
As I am somewhat of a semi-pro blogger nowadays often reading blogs, and writing some of my own – I realized something about us bloggers. I noticed that bloggers are a new form of society, one that breaks the chains of the traditional physical barriers to a conversation. This breach allows a group of common ability (Zed’s Note: Ability to express themselves on a blog that is) to come together and bond at an altitude that didn’t exist before. It’s a village emerging in the middle of the web where fabrics of relationship spans amongst strangers. A whole new community that transgresses natural boundaries.
When a blogger goes missing, others wonder; what happened? Irregardless of location really. Interesting.
Connected by comment boxes and catching up with each other almost daily, some as natural as friends that have been together for much longer then the forty days that span from the first note dropped in response to an entry written about a wily cat with poor toilet-manners (Zed’s Note: The cat really is on the prowl! LOL). We seek new entries and look forward to some blogs more then others.
The question I have is how long will this superficial congeniality last. I have seen some nasty remarks before, some in my blog and often in the more popular blogs out there. In real life there is always that asshole or that bitch that goes through life thinking that making you miserable is their god-given duty. Where is this person in the blog community?
(Zed’s Note: Of course we only get this remarks from bloggers who turn themselves into anonymous commenter for fear of retribution)
Do we behave better in a blog for fear that others may drop by our blog and give us hell? Does the fact that words on a webpage last longer and having everyone read all the nasty entries shame you into being a nice pussy?
Now, if we take this lesson on a blog and apply it to our real life, and remember that EVERYTHING we say is recorded permanently and EVERYONE will be able to see it, will that make us a better person? More polite perhaps? Maybe with less mala fide? Perhaps, we will even commit less sin when we realize that all our sins will be displayed on a big blog one day for everyone to see.
(Zed’s Note: Mala Fide that’s Latin for “With or in bad faith, treacherously” a word made popular by a popular politician a while back; now the whole KL really should know what it means!)
If we know that everything we do will be known to everyone much like the transparent surroundings of a blog, will we behave?
