I realized, while going through some of my old entries, that I have traded quantity for quality. A couple of months ago, I created the goal of a minimum of 10 posts per month, with the hope that at least 1 or 2 of those would actually be worth reading.
Instead, I’ve resorted to whiny, quippy and insignificant tripe that ultimately has no philosophical weight. In short, I’ve jumped the shark
Well, shit. That didn’t take long, even by my standards.
Heh. To quote all of my Internet friends, I am teh suck.
No I’m not giving up. I’m getting back to my roots.
I’m sure you all are tired of hearing about the latest developments in my relationships, so I need to find something else to ramble endlessly about. The funny thing? People are constantly asking me for advice in relationships.
Why this is the case, I will never understand. I’m obviously no expert.
I consider myself a sounding board. In other words, people can talk to me and bounce their ideas off me. It seems to make them feel better, whether I’ve helped or not. If that’s the best I’m capable of, so be it. I’ll be that sounding board, if that’s the role that I’m most suited for.
But this does not preclude sharing my own worldview with all of you eagerly poised blog-followers. It just so happens, I consider myself a philospher, albeit a shitty one.
So, what to philosophize about? Aye, there’s the rub.
Since I’m a bit of a beauracratic savant, I suppose I need a long-range strategic plan before embarking on a series of projects and goals, and therefore, will distill to you a boring and extraneous plan of what it is I intend to do with this waste of real-estate in cyberspace.
For those of you who work with me and have been dealing with certain managers who operate on the same principles of anal retentive foreplanning, you now have full permission to slap me silly. Wait. I’m already silly. Perhaps you can slap me until I return to my version of sanity, as it were.
I have several goals in my life, goals that I’ve rarely shared with anyone, and I hope now to put one of these down in writing. I’m sure it will be interesting to return in a few years to this entry to find that I have utterly failed to provide any meaningful progress towards this destination.
Here goes: I do enjoy exploring the psychological, sociological, and philosophical aspects of our society, and I hope to continue to grow in my capacity and desire to do so. One day, even, I hope to write a book.
You see, I feel our current society has no real philosphy to call our own. The great names in the exploration of the human condition are all from older societies, or older aspects of our society. But, times have changed, and it’s time to form a philosophical standpoint to once again point people in the right direction.
Not that I feel I’m capable of leading this charge at this point in time, but if I am to be remembered for anything, I’d like to be remembered for helping people find themselves (as much as I hate to use that phrase).
I feel the greatest honor that can be done to anyone is to be immortalized because of helping others define themselves. Unfortunately, all of those that we currently immortalize, Voltaire, De Carte, Sartre, etc. etc. etc., are not alive right now to define and direct our current society.
The landscape has changed. It’s time for others to take the torch. The old philosophies, while still truthful and obviously not without merit, do not always apply in this age. Instead of being a disconnected society with small groups forming based not on common interest, but of location, we are connected to the utmost. Travel and communication are so simple that we are not forced to associate with those we have little in common with, simply because they are the only ones accessible to us. Due to this the concept of a “subculture” has become very popular, and many define themselves, even unknowingly, by what subcultures they feel they are members of.
This leads to a highly personalized, yet still, in many cases, a highly disconnected society. Amazingly, even with our capability for such personal communication, true connectivity (and not on a technical sense) occurs infrequently, percentage-wise. For example, I am able to log in to a chat room or message board system with those of like mind and attitude, and yet still, we do not connect, but barely scratch the surface of truly getting to know one another. For many, and as I mentioned earlier, it’s quality over quantity, and this is not necessarily better.
I’ve been over a couple of aspects of this before, and I still hold to my original thoughts.
Anyway, all tangents aside, I intend to philosophize more frequently. As I’ve been undergoing some massive changes in this online journal system, you’ll probably notice a few other things. The biggest one is, I’ve been contemplating a name change.
Not my own, I’m actually quite satisfied with my name, despite the fact that names are something others give you.
“Behind the Times,” unfortunately, was originally dreamed up during a bout of caffeine-induced creative indolence. At the time, I planned on mulling over gaming as well, a subject which I never seem to be on the cutting edge, but instead am playing games that others have already put down, in favor of newer, more shiny wastes of time.
The philosophical aspect of my blog that referred to me being “Behind the Times” was that I constantly felt like I was just now discovering things that others have already spent quite a bit of time going over. I felt, and still do, to a degree, that I’m not covering any new ground in my ongoing journey of discovery, but simply walking paths that others have already tread, mapped out, mowed down, and finally paved over for myself and many others to follow. Time to grab the machete, compass, a blank map, and forge my own path.
Admittedly, I’m a little scared, but hey, I’ve always wanted to be a trailblazer for something that actually matters in this world. Hopefully, somebody will want to follow me down my path. Also hopefully, they won’t realize until it’s too late that I have absolutely no frickin’ idea where I’m going.
Hahahaha. Suckers.
So, I petition you, my non-existent audience, to help me think up a new name for this blog. Something creative, thought-provoking, even humorous. Off-the-wall, irreverent, irrelevent, disrepectful, and downright stupid are also allowed. No idea will be turned down, no concept given the axe.
Unless I simply don’t like your face.
Thanks for the help, and as always, thank you for sticking with me. I only hope I can bring an emotion to your mind, a smile to your face, and occassionally, a nervous twitch to your eyelid as you continue to follow me into this dark philosophical jungle that I am quickly beginning to call home.
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