My server has been down for the last couple of days, and even though I haven’t blogged since my post-Mother’s Day piece, when I wanted to blog it was a terrible grating frustration not to be able to–and to imagine the website being inaccessible, oh dear!

Now that the server is back up, here I go.

To blog or not to blog is not a question anymore, because I’m going to do it anyway. Words on a screen accessible to other eyeballs is a unique and compelling new part of our new-millenial world.

In my old days, I filled journal after journal with my thoughts, angst, insights and tales of joy and woe. Even though paper is more reliable, and after the Big Crash ‘they’ keep foreseeing I imagine those will survive while all this electronic information may prove ephemeral, somehow journals no longer hold the allure they once did.

Now it’s all about sharing! Sharing! Sharing! Publicize the private! There are arguments for and against, and we hash them all out endlessly in public.

Personally, I like to think it’s an evolutionary imperative. I enjoy imagining that we’re all nodes in the planetary brain, and therefore the more information we share (whether about our inner thoughts and feelings or our opinions about externals such as politics and issues) helps to increase synaptic traffic and to make the whole world smarter. Why not?

To some, the modern propensity toward proliferation of personal revelations and gut-spillings, the current plague of political and metaphysical perspectives on the web is a bad thing, a gluttony of greed by needy ‘look at me’ self-centered bombasts.

But to me, it’s all part of the evolutionary mix. It makes me feel better about participating in the particularly gut-naked way I sometimes do. And this post may be a waste of words, but perhaps it needed saying. It may be that I just increased the synaptic traffic in the brain of the planet by laying all that out again.

At the very least, this entry is a placeholder and a way to catch up on my back self-portraits. More with actual substance to come, and soon.

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