! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
Yellow Swordfish is feeling the strain of attempting to blog about every shitty thing the British government does.
It’s just not possible. It’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge – you get to the end and then you realise that the rot’s been setting in behind you so you have to start again. The upshot, of course, is that it does get demoralising with no end in sight – even more so if you are genuinely disturbed at the way things are going in a country that you love.
Political blogging is hard work, demoralising at times, but if we don’t keep tabs on the establishment, who will? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Down but not out mate…
How about making a portal or a new multi user blog something? A shared sense of purpose might make it easier.
There are some out there. I write on Independence Home, for example, and I’ve written on Anthem4England a couple of times. The problem is, when people who already have blogs get together to write collaboratively they tend to just duplicate their own posts and all you end up with really is a blog of syndicated material.
Take a break from it all….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5HsG7AN1Y
Well, why bother? It’s not like bloggers are taken seriously anyway … or they shouldn’t be. If bloggers were actually journalists, doing a professional job, then it would be different. But we already have journalists for that. That leaves bloggers to make unsubstantiated claims, construct conspiracy theories and whine about minor disappointments in their personal lives. It’s hardly `keeping tabs on the establishment’, is it? Find something more productive to do.
(They are quite fun to read, though; like the Daily Mail letters column, but without getting your fingers grubby.)