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Making People Think
The other day, I posted an entry about my periodic bouts with writer's block. One person commented, making a reference to my "self-imposed obligation to entertain".
This response stuck in my craw as the main goal of this blog isn't to "entertain" people.
Though I write about a wide variety of topics, some of them which are indeed entertaining, this blog's raison d'etre is to make people see things in a new light; I want to make people think. As my blog's subtitle indicates, my goal is to get people to consider things in ways they might not have before -- to think outside the box, to color outside the lines.
I especially like writing about controversial topics, about supposedly inviolate sacred cows. I enjoy the lively exchange of comments that usually follows such an entry -- I know I've done my job if I've struck a nerve.
I don't expect people to always end up agreeing with me, far from it. It is enough to expose people to unconventional ways of thinking about things and to have them entertain such thoughts, regardless of the conclusions they ultimately draw.
Thoughts?
Your blog rocks ... and if you ask me, methinks I hear envy singing ...
your topics are interesting, challenging and sometimes downright meant to
provoke - all good! LOL LIke I said,pretty obvious someone is jealous!
Interesting. I think about why I blog, often, and I try to keep it for me.
I've spent my whole adult life putting others first and my blog is my one
place where it can all be about me. I try not to apologize for not blogging
when I go a long time between posts, although I end up doing it any way. It
all comes down to interaction, I think, and I love the interaction based on
ideas, rather than gender or age or socioeconomic status, or even
geography. I say it often, because I think it often, it's a great time to
be alive! We're all glad you blog to make us think, W. You succeed at that.
:)
I must agree with Selkie. The most interesting blogs to me are those that
invoke you to think and see things in a different light. Keep on blogging!
You do the job well!
I started blogging to try to make people think about authoritarianism in
government policy, It was very much a protest blog at conception. It's
broadened since then; almost immediately, in fact. Sometimes I still try to
get people thinking, sometimes it's pure entertainment. My photo blog and
Felix Domesticus are very much about entertainment. Longrider blog remains
very much political, consumer and deep thinking stuff... for the most part.
Well, I've thought about it, but I disagree: that's not at all why you
blog.
I was the one who said it - without expecting you to read anything into
it... it was nothing more than an attempt at being funny, referring to your
insistence on blogging every single day, and in my mind, thought-provoking
and entertaining are overlapping, not opposing categories. I certainly
wasn't trying to insult you and I apologize if it came across this way.
I love your blog. It is the one thing I know will be there every day! I
started my blog after a friend told me about blogging. Now it has become
sort of like my cyber "Cheers"...A place where you can go to discuss
things, hang out and chat and everyone knows your name. I like your blog
just the way it is.....even when the subjects sometime go over my head!
When I started blogging, you got to choose three categories in which to be
listed, so I chose "humor", "rant" and "music". Well, some days I blog
about none of the above, so people will just have to be understanding! ;^)
I find that if something strikes a nerve within me then whether I like it
or not, there's a lesson for me contained there.
