What’s the point of all the comments, commentary, attitudes, anyway?
One of the beauties of owning a blog like this one is that if you choose to do so, you can simply rant. Today appears to be one of my “rant” days, so please bear with me.
I’m asking myself the question posed in the title of this post: What, really, is the point or purpose of all the comments, the running commentary on news, voicing various attitudes, etc., in a blog — or any online venue?
Looking back on the last couple of years, I’ve concluded the effects or effectiveness of running this blog is probably just a little less than proclaiming diet pills that work and expecting to lose tons of weight without eating less or exercising more.
Lame analogy I guess, but I hope you see what I mean. We — by that “we” I mean the entire “blogosphere” and/or Internet opinion community — get into battles over politics or politicians, we rail about news, views, and legislation, and only about one in a million times does it make any real difference in the world we live in.
Perhaps, though, our great history as a nation, heck as human beings living and breathing anywhere, demonstrates that it’s worth the trouble for that one in a million chance that we’ll write, say, or read something in a blog that WILL make a difference.
But, perhaps not. Heck, I dunno.
What do you think? Is it worth the effort to express yourself (myself) online, in various blogs, forums, chat rooms, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and all the rest?