State of Love and Trust

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

-- 1 Corinthians 13:11

I suppose you're probably expecting som big long introductory and explanatory post giving the idea of where I've been, what I've been doing, what this is all about, and so on and so forth ad nauseum. Complete with an obligatory digression into the quote above. Well, essentially my response to the quote is: "like that's going to happen any time soon."



You have not been paying attention. There's a bunch of lemmings and ants marching around doing the same thing again and again, falling into the same depressing routine, struggling to get noticed. The blogosphere is one giant, bloated, sometimes hilarious, sometimes relevant, sometimes frightening circle jerk.



Here are the basic dynamics of the Blogo-Domino Effect:



1) A news article, book, CD release, comic book, random sound byte from some idiot on TV serves as a catalyst.



2) Five people then rush to be the "first" to comment on it, usually with some sort of grand effusive statements if they like it, or base, frank derision usually reserved for the lowliest scum of the earth and George W. Bush if not.



3) Ten more people link to each of the original five, while commenting on the "originals"' blogs with things that often amount to little more than "me too" or "you're a stinky poohead"