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It's hard to shake certain beliefs. The types of beliefs I'm referring to have little or nothing to do with the prejudices that might mark someone in a specifically terrible light. These include the inevitable rascisms, sexisms, and any other type of -ism that's associated with negative waves and dogmas. What I'm referring to, though, are those beliefs that might label what has been, in recent years, a negative term, an intellectual or elitist. Now, I must confess the fact that being labeled an elitist is now considered something along the lines of being labeled a fascist makes little sense to me. Along the same lines, I'm also confused as to how liberal became associated with such negativity. Why is being labeled a liberal so bad? It makes no sense. I know, it's all about the conservatives trying to make liberals out to be the most uncaring, unpatriotic, selfish lot to come down the pike, but they aren't. It's a myth perpetuated by the conservative dominated media machine. Well, no shit. Everyone knows this, or do they? It's amazing how myths such as these become fixtures in society and are almost impossible to change without some sort of mass coercion on the part of the ruling bodies themselves.
Anyway, back to the notion of elitist. I have a problem with banality. The banality that seems to be the cause and context for many of the blogs that have sprung up in the last few years, which, probably, includes this very forum as one of its members. I have to confess that I find the idea of reading about the most mundane events in people's lives to be nauseating and without any real redeeming value. Sure, I think it's great that the masses are becoming more creative and I use that term very, very loosely, but I feel strongly that there are just certain people out there that have little to say, so they shouldn't force themselves to write meandering diatribes (much like this one) that chronicle the daily minutiae of their lives. Face it, there's just not a whole lot going on in life that makes it so interesting on a regular basis, not to mention the blogs that are published daily. What are people writing about? Nothing. It's all boring shit that no one, except for the writer themselves, finds interesting.
I know, it's hypocritical to be utilizing the very forum I'm criticizing to write this utterly disgusting diatribe lambasting the notion of writing by the masses. However, I feel strongly that there's a fine line between writing that should be done and writing that should never be attempted. I'm not suggesting that we leave it all to the professionals; that's fascist. What I am suggesting, though, is that people should stop kidding themselves into thinking that their most private moments are interesting, their little euphemisms are witty, their daily logs of their lives are even remotely close to resembling fodder for the masses. In other words, if you're thinking of starting a blog, and you're first post has something to do with how interesting work, life, whatever that happened to you today is worth writing about, don't. Spare us the agony and stop deluding yourself.