Meta Media and Theraputic Blogging

I honestly would prefer not to become a person who espouses the virtues of blogging as some sort of personal revolution. However, I would say that I have found my blogging thus far to be rather therapeutic. I have a lot of trouble discussing politics in a reasonable way, which is why I chose the name: the vehement moderate. Yet, as far as this constant posting is concerned, I think that it helps not only myself, but others, to be forced to try and frame their opinions in at least some sort of coherent way.

Media published about the media that interprets the media seems like an exercise in redundancy, but I do think that the role of the blog in modern society is not based on what sort of insight it can provide to the reading public, but what sort of insight it can provide to the reader. Long-distance proxy political discussions are healthier than brooding, or shouting, or taking to the same person day in and day out at work. Yet, the illusion that someone is actually reading this blog makes the blogger recast themselves in a way that they feel best represents their opinions and their personality - from the lifelong farmer that ruminates over how he has voted in the past few years, to the successful accountant that TyPEs in aLteRNATed CAPPPSSs!!! about how liberal conspiracies are designed to seize his Audi.

It's interesting how the endless anonymity provided by the internet forces people to take others almost exclusively at face value, subtracting for the ubiquitous skepticism that the internet engenders. This very anonymity, combined with the curiosity to explore issues deeper and more thoroughly make for a new form of media that resonates with the author and the reader in a new, compelling dynamic.