Postmodern Blues

Contemporary society has afforded us the wonderful opportunity to "get our word out there" and "say it if it feels right/good/necessary." Anyone with -- or with access to -- a computer can post journals of their daily thoughts and deeds for the world to see.

But this isn't a blog about contemporary society. Nor is it a critique of blogs themselves. I could write a metablog about blogs, but then I don't know what would upset me more -- the irony of it all, or the fact that irony has become such a cliché in and of itself.

So why am I blogging? I guess to display the dilemma we all find ourselves in. We deride certain behaviors/systems of life, only to find ourselves caught up in the circle. We hate commercialism and yet want every-colour-of-that-item-please. We scoff at superficiality but find ourselves obsessed with reality T.V. and tabloids. We value human interaction and warmth and yet here we are writing blogs...

We tell ourselves these are escapes, not traps. Does it boil down to the postmodern condition of the individual creating his/her own truth and the ever-popular line "it's all relative"? Is life so because we believe it is so?

[Ok, so this turned out out to be the blog I said it wouldn't be. How ironic. Forgive me???]