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By Andrew Pollack on 08/22/2003 at 12:25 AM EDTSince the invention of the written word, people have kept journals and diaries. They've been personal places for troubled spirits to pour out their hearts or they've been strictly business. Consider the journal of an intrepid explorer, writing by candle in the dark. Frightened, exhausted, maybe hungry, he remains desperate to pass on what he's learned.
In all that time though, and with all those journals and diaries, only a very few were widely read. Those fascinating insights into the minds of the strongest among us inspire, teach, and even awe. They do this though the details of the lives of these brave or famous people. They are at their most powerful, however, when they show us how much alike we are; when we see in thoughts of those we admire a similarity to ourselves.
What makes blogging new, is that for the first time the shoe is on the other foot. When we start a blog, we declare our own thoughts worth reading, anyone who doesn't agree be damned. In an age that reveres Celebrity more than nobility, beauty more than spirit, and publicity above all, we are not waiting for the fickle masses to tell us our value.
In 1637, *René Descartes declared "Cogito Ergo Sum." He is saying that he can take absolutely nothing for certain, beyond his own existence. To the world, to the universe, he declares "I think, therefore I am." With this he says that everything we believe to exist springs from the singular fact of our own existence. At that moment, René Descartes declared his own importance beyond that of anything else.
While I'm no Descartes, by starting my own blog I am declaring "Blog Ergo Sum". I blog, therefore I am. My thoughts have value because they are my thoughts. I am that revered thing called "Celebrity" simply because I say so. I hope the things I have to say amuse, inspire, anger, and inform you. If they cause you to think, I will be honored to have done so.
*René Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637)
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Since the invention of the written word, people have kept journals and diaries.
They've been personal places for troubled spirits to pour out their hearts or
they've been strictly business. Consider the journal of an intrepid explorer,
writing by candle in the dark. Frightened, exhausted, maybe hungry, he remains
desperate to pass on what he's learned. In all that time though, and with all
those journals and diaries, only a very few were widely read. Those fascinating
insights into the minds of the strongest among us inspire, teach, and even awe.
They do this though the details of the lives of these brave or famous people.
They are at their most powerful, however, when they show us how much alike we
are; when we see in thoughts of those we admire a similarity to ourselves. What
makes blogging new, is that for the first time the shoe is on the other foot.
When we start a blog, we declare our own thoughts worth reading, anyone who
doesn't agree be damned. In an age that reveres Celebrity more than nobility,
beauty more than spirit, and publicity above all, we are not waiting for the
fickle masses to tell us our value. In 1637, *René Descartes declared "Cogito
Ergo Sum." He is saying that he can take absolutely nothing for certain, beyond
his own existence. To the world, to the universe, he declares "I think,
therefore I am." With this he says that everything we believe to exist springs
from the singular fact of our own existence. At that moment, René Descartes
declared his own importance beyond that of anything else. While I'm no
Descartes, by starting my own blog I am declaring "Blog Ergo Sum". I blog,
therefore I am. My thoughts have value because they are my thoughts. I am that
revered thing called "Celebrity" simply because I say so. I hope the things I
have to say amuse, inspire, anger, and inform you. If they cause you to think,
I will be honored to have done so. * René Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637)
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------Since the invention of the written word, people have kept journals and diaries.
They've been personal places for troubled spirits to pour out their hearts or
they've been strictly business. Consider the journal of an intrepid explorer,
writing by candle in the dark. Frightened, exhausted, maybe hungry, he remains
desperate to pass on what he's learned. In all that time though, and with all
those journals and diaries, only a very few were widely read. Those fascinating
insights into the minds of the strongest among us inspire, teach, and even awe.
They do this though the details of the lives of these brave or famous people.
They are at their most powerful, however, when they show us how much alike we
are; when we see in thoughts of those we admire a similarity to ourselves. What
makes blogging new, is that for the first time the shoe is on the other foot.
When we start a blog, we declare our own thoughts worth reading, anyone who
doesn't agree be damned. In an age that reveres Celebrity more than nobility,
beauty more than spirit, and publicity above all, we are not waiting for the
fickle masses to tell us our value. In 1637, *René Descartes declared "Cogito
Ergo Sum." He is saying that he can take absolutely nothing for certain,
beyond his own existence. To the world, to the universe, he declares "I think,
therefore I am." With this he says that everything we believe to exist springs
from the singular fact of our own existence. At that moment, René Descartes
declared his own importance beyond that of anything else. While I'm no
Descartes, by starting my own blog I am declaring "Blog Ergo Sum". I blog,
therefore I am. My thoughts have value because they are my thoughts. I am that
revered thing called "Celebrity" simply because I say so. I hope the things I
have to say amuse, inspire, anger, and inform you. If they cause you to think,
I will be honored to have done so. * René Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637)
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