Blogging. There is no money in it. Glass housed people will throw their stones. Why do it?
Each person with a blog has his/her reasons. I speak only for myself.
Via Bob Marley. The world lost out because he died young. He did not sing for money or glory. Consider this line of thinking:
Small Axe [1971] [Lee Perry]
Why boasteth thyself
Oh, evil men
Playing smart
And not being clever?
I said, you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
But the goodness of Jah, Jah
I-dureth for-I-ver
So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
These are the words
Of my master, keep on tellin' me
No weak heart
Shall prosper
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, fall in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it (... fall in it)
If you are the big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe, sharp and ready
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
(To cut you down)
Cutting down the vanities and stupidities and lies and excuses gets to the heart of the matter. Showing the ironies of life and the weaknesses and nakedness of would-be emperors, would be empresses, is one aspect of blogging. Exposing venal people for what they are, and dissecting things they've done and likely will redo. It is teaching, where the source page of the opening photo ended saying:
Marley often referred to the point of his music as educating people about their history so they can take control of their future. “Music gonna teach dem a lesson...,” Bob Marley.
Marley said it in his own song words, which also captured a bit of the sadness and frustration he apparently felt in seeing a collective blindness when there was ample light:
Ah! Ya too rude
Oh what a rat race
Oh what a rat race
This is the rat race
Don't forget your history
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty
Rat race, rat race, rat race
Oh it's a disgrace to see the
Human-race in a rat race, rat race
You got the horse race
You got the dog race
You got the human-race
But this is a rat race, rat race
There is that; also to a degree, I feel that if life were not ironic it would be totally boring. Bernie Madoff, Tom Petters, all that - lobbyist-politicians and revolving doors. It's a dimension of mean, scociopathic evil, but for interestingness, it trumps this:
Highway 10 property buy-ups by Ramsey with RALF funds show how some will reach, when money's on the table, and laugh about it and their own motivations. When things that are interesting that way are found in public records, court papers, pointing them out is a form of teaching. Unfortunately it's also like preaching to the choir. The ones needing instruction are too busy watching American Idol and Schwartzenegger films; then voting. And then as Margaret Connolly has told me, "We get the government they deserve."