Some reflections on blogging for the online magazine Swans:
(Political blogs) are changing the face of politics. Most have a few dozen or a few hundred readers, others fewer than that. But they talk to each other, they read each other, and most importantly, they link to each other. Cumulatively they are of enormous importance. They are being heard.
There are blogging communities of environmentalists, educators, musicians, artists, writers, journalists, anti-war activists, businessmen. There are bloggers in war zones, whose stories often belie the insipid and lying reporting of corporate media reporters who parrot the official line. There are people who write and worry and argue about global warming. Whatever your passion, you can find a blogging community of like-minded people. ....
There is a lot to be said for big thinkers. Thanks to a few of our founding fathers, we have a brilliant democracy -- if we can keep it.
But much can be said for small thinkers too, those who look at details rather than the wide screen, those who focus on life as it is lived rather than as it would be lived if we were omniscient and omnipotent. There are a lot more of us, and cumulatively we can leave a mark on the world, bring about important changes -- perhaps even save our democracy.
Full article at:
http://www.swans.com/library/art12/rdeck063.html
Posted by Deck at June 5, 2006 10:01 AM