To Blog or Not to Blog

It's a crazy age we live in. The rise of the age of the internet has opened up many doors for humankind. A wealth of information that was previously unavailable to the vast majority is now just a click away. Do you ever have a question, and, instead of actually asking another person you simply google it? I know I do.

Just the other day me and my friends were wondering if you typed in "How do I get away with employing illegal immigrants?" to google would you get a good answer? The fact that we were even contemplating such a ludicrous internet search shows how powerful and ubiquitous it has truly become. Because for the most part, the internet comes through. Whether you're stalking people you hardly know on Facebook or looking for the nearest Wendy's restaurant, the internet has all the answers.

Apart from being the great resource that it is, the internet has also sparked the phenomenon of web-logging, or "blogging" as it colloquially known. The idea of a blog is simple. It's basically an online diary where any idiot with an internet connection can write down whatever they want on their blog and any other idiot can read it. Now I know what you're thinking. You think that I'm about to knock the whole concept of blogging and go into a whole self-deprecating spiel about how blogging is essentially literary diarrhea that serves no other purpose than distracting under-worked office workers with attention deficit disorder. But I'm not going to do that. For one, because I already did, in an earlier blog entry. But more importantly, I'm not going to knock blogging because I think its an important medium with which to document the evolution of human thought, no matter how stupid that thought may be.

Just think, while anthropologists of today studying our ancient relatives base their life's work on mere fossils and cave paintings, the anthropologists of the future will be able to pore over gigabytes of text, video, music and other assorted media created by the humans of the digital age.

Blogs, Message boards, YouTube videos, Word Documents, MP3's, and JPEGS. The list goes on. . . We're constantly creating artifacts of our existence and not even realizing it. What we are doing now is documenting the human experience.

And that's important. If only to let future generations know how completely and utterly moronic we all were. So that's that. GO START A BLOG! The future of epistemology could very well rest on your shoulders. . .