Friday, February 19, 2010

Why do people stop writing in their blogs

Usually people start blogs because of a inner impulse to share. It is something new and like all new things tends to arise as an aspiration within oneself. There are grand dreams and expectations that come in hand in hand with having a baby (or starting a blog). Please see previous post of definitions as this is what a transitional operator is. It starts off as a new idea and for it to find sustainance in this world, it has to learn how to live in the world of the constant operator. The dynamic that will always repeat itself over and over again. The people who function in a world ruled by the constant operator think in terms of constant operators. Excellence, not being good enough, guilt are all terminologies of the constant operator. All these terminologies are primarily based on not being able to perform the same task over and over again in the "best possible way". A machine is perfect till it wears down because it performs the same task over and over again, day in and day out. Anything that cannot perform the same function has no place in the system and is marked for being taken down.

Take academics for instance, like Sufo has to perform the same academic demands day in and day out. There is the hierarchy of grades and there is the hierarchy of academic rank and there is the hierarchy of promised dreams. That leaves a student like Sufo really dryed up. Every day is the same thing of trying to catch up and be "good enough". Such an atmosphere is extremely stiffling, "as in the tornado rings getting smaller and smaller from top down". It is constricting. How is it possible that a creative endeavour can arise when a person is captured in such massive forces.

Every blog is destined to be captured by the top down hierarchy until and unless the blog follows the principle of defending its creativity and uniqueness. For the constant operator the defense is only in the constant operator. A blog can only survive in the world of "same things repeating over and over again" by adopting the same principle of "repeating the same thing over and over again". That repetition of the same thing over and over again becomes a defense for the author of the blog. It is mindless and is something that can be produced at a minute's notice, especially when the mind of the author is plagued by the myriad quandaries of the top down system he or she has to function in.

How a blog can retain its creativity amidst such repetition is another question with a very similar answer as above.

1 comment:

Kashif Malik said...

Good to hear from you again.