why are we here?

Today I read a couple of good blogs. A couple that fails my taste for intellectuality. And still a couple that simply falls under absurd. It makes me think though, what are really blogs for?

A: entertainment. But whose? The blogger’s or the reader’s? I simply cannot dismiss the playful thought that someone could amuse himself with writing passionately for hours on end, about the same incident, and on the same emotional level every time. Don’t they have doctors for this? If I could convince myself that it is indeed for the blogger’s entertainment that blogs were created, then I must reconcile to myself that perversion is rampant, and that self gratification has evolved into the cyber kind. It’s scary. But if I could convince myself that it is for the reader’s entertainment that blogs exist, then by all means, the selfless souls who write for other’s joy are growing in numbers, and that probably the end of the world is not too far away… that’s even scarier!

Do not argue for the in betweens! It can only be either one or the other, never both. Otherwise, go somewhere else and plant something, like camote maybe?

B: expression. Who the fuck cares!?!? Since the so-called liberation of the Philippines from twenty years of imagined oppression, never have the words “freedom of expression” been so irritating. Wars have been triggered by expression. Families have been destroyed by expression. An eternal conflict between the religions of the world can never be quelled because of that freedom to express one’s ideology. Ideas are born out of other people’s opinion, or even an unknowing remark. The whole world can end with a simple expression of emotion – a profession of faith, or a criticism for fashion. Surely blogs aren’t created to ignite the next world war.

C: cultural exchange. The only exchange coursed through blogs is the knowledge that everyone else is as sick as you are. It’s more of a domination of one culture over another. There is hardly an exchange in culture, but a proliferation of the dominant one. It is like a virus – the only way to spread is to find readers to convert and start their own blog sites.

D: money making scheme for the thousands of computer geeks passionately writing computer codes to make and unmake a new blog site. If indeed blogsite hosting is that profitable, the stocks would have skyrocketed in the Dow Jones. E-bay has a bigger stock in its warehouses than all the blogsites combined.

There MUST be something else, something that drives the intellectual to continue pounding on the hapless computer keyboard.

I cannot think of any more reasons why people are so addicted to blogging, or why blogs sites exist. Surely there must be a logical reason. It’s sad to classify this dilemma with the one about the existence of flies, mosquitoes, terrorists and other pests that in all logic and reason shouldn’t even have evolved but somehow did. Whatever your reason for blogging, stay firm to it. You have the last true ideology of this century, you are part of the last remaining souls that will inherit the earth. You will live long after all the bacteria have disintegrated. Your legacy will endure forevermore!

After all, some freaky scientist who probably blew up his high school chemistry lab would find someday undeniable proof that blogging is genetic. The human genome shall need re-writing once again.