Where Ya Been?

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If nobody reads your blog and you stop updating, does anyone care?

Both of these are questions for the ages. If my assertion is wrong and anybody was reading this, I apologize for the long layoff. By way of explanation, the holidays were a busy time and I got out of the habit of crusading against the world's injustices. The holidays were followed by an uncharacteristically full plate at work which occupied much of my blogging time. That's right, I only blog on the clock. Am I supposed to crusade against injustice for free? Am I supposed to beam enlightenment on my own time?

I'll save the post about a vast generational and technological gap as applied to the notion of slacking at work for another day. However, this long layoff allowed me to consider my motivations and the general cultural and psychological meanings of blogging. There are about 35 different doctoral dissertations in Sociology and American Studies just waiting to be written on this topic. In addition to the myriad macro-contextual meanings and motivations, there's the basic catharsis of the medium. Whether people actually read this or not, the catharsis is valuable especially in an America with an increasing sense of socio-political Vertigo. So before I get in over my head, let me wrap up this self-referential and po-mo deconstructivist look at blogging and get back to the real reason we're all here.

By all, I guess I mean...me.