To Blog, or not To Blog...

BLOGGING ABOUT WHATEVER

ENTRY - 1

TITLE: "To Blog, or not To Blog..."

AUTHOUR: J. William Bell

DATE POSTED: 2025-02-21

To blog, or not to blog; for me, that has become a relevant question. There are plenty of good reasons not to do it, and there are plenty of good reasons to do it, and do it often. As I type out these words I begin to see patterns of cogitation similar to those when, on the very rare occasion that it happens, I consider singing karaoke.

So let's now consider the Negatives (CONs) and Positives (PROs)

CONs

Blogging might be a waste of my time, efforts, and energy because: I am giving the world a golden oppourtunity to tell me, savagely, that I am a terrible writer. If and When this happens, I; the writer; will then find myself in the undesirable position where I will either have to agree with my self-appointed critics, or prove them wrong (going into a state of irrational denial followed by a powerful urge to seek revenge, is, of course, also a possibility). There is also a strong possibility that I will be unable to monetize this endevour, somehow. That also makes an excellent case against blogging, especially if you are the kind of person who pays their own bills, schleps their own groceries, cooks their own food, and would rather take up a residence and job in Hell, torturing damned souls for all of eternity; instead of living in any moronic variation of a Socialist/Communist country.

Greed is indeed a deadly sin, but more clever folks than myself have pointed out that a for-profit/greed motivation when paired up with an I.Q. that is higher than 83, tends to quickly correct itself. It does not have to see an obviously failed experiment all the way through, and then continue to indulge in self-destructive denial.

PROs

The main reason why blogging might be a good idea is this: You, the blogger (or in this case: Me); might actually have something important to say. In fact, you might be the only person who can say this very important thing. I am reminded of that Fairy Tale: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES; where only a child who was not afraid of looking foolish in public was able to expose the dishonesty of the criminals, the cowardice of the people, and the foolishness/pride/vanity of the Emperor himself, by loudly and truthfully proclaiming that the Emperor was literally parading in the nude.

So, it appears that I will make an honest attempt at blogging, with hopefully more sobriety than when I do engage in singing karaoke. But I do intend to blog while clothed, most of the time. I live in Canada; and it does tend to get very cold around here.

* Excelsior!

* I'm putting that word at the end of the blog, because, it does provide a nice dramatic sense of punctuation to the whole thing. And also to honour the memory of the man who dared to get up on a figurative soapbox every once in a while, and share his opinions with anybody and everybody who liked to read comicbooks.

Rest in Peace, Stan Lee. You are missed!!!