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blogging as evolutionary fast-track
November 2008 
Why blog (?) or Everything is Bloggable
Posted on Mar 21st, 2006
by 
Brondu
Brondu
(all of my statements about blogging are just references to my own experience with blogging... so if I say.. 'blogging is this or blogging is that' I just mean 'blogging is this or blogging is that ... for me.')
I love blogging because what blogging seems to do for me is objectify my interior processes, making the subject of any given day the object of the next thus facilitating self-transcendance and offering the opportunity for conscious, discriminate inclusion/integration.
Now, while this sort of evolutionary/developmental fast-track would seem to produce, as a natural consequence, extreme hellacious disonance on the part of the individual submitted to a regimen of intense bloggerific activity... the act of blogging seems to melt away that enormous internal gut-wrenching hades of perpetual dis-identification/present-fragmented-self-death... because even as you are transcending your self and laying yourself into the subject of a post as an object, you are expressing yourself as fully as you can at that moment!
This daily ritual of objectification/full expression of your expanded or separate self (whatever you're feeling) allows a person to enter into a bizarre space where everything in life, every gross or subtle action/interaction/encounter becomes strangely and deliciously objectified; yet instead of this phenomenon making all things distastefully impersonal this intensely objectified worldspace is rich and blissful because you find you have words and expressions for everything that is constantly arising in the ground of an acutely tuned blogospheric awareness, the awareness/voice that is constantly at the forefront of your Awareness.
So if you're young, like me, and are finding your (small s) self immensely transient and can never be happy with how you configure your character/personality blogging allows you transcend and include (develop) considerably more comfortably, but also considerably faster without the brutality of unsupplemented day-to-day experience.
It's a good thing, blogging is, really.... It's kind of like having a very personal discussion with yourself, and then sharing it with the world. Or manifesting as much or as little of your nuanced inland procedures in the all too obvious form of a pile of words, a pile of words just waiting to be dissected in the name of microevolution. OK I guess it still sounds awful.
But, who knows what blogging will be like when my consciousness development is over and the Evolutionary imperative is lost on me and my only task for the day is: enjoy and enfold. lol (jk).
Maybe I should flee the Many, find the One and stay there. Ultimate cessation, radical bliss, all that. But I suppose therin lies the paradox of incarnational nonduality, for even as this trans-experiential realization of nonduality is one with Emptiness so also form and form evolves (relentlessly). Consequently I imagine that nonduality evolves and being One with Everything is really only being One with Everything that IS... Arising Presently and not One with All That Is and Was and... here's the clincher... Is to Come (even though it is out of causal eternal timeless unshakable Emptiness that these future manifestations will be arising... HUH?)
More likely than not I'm playing in a puddle deeper than I had previously imagined and am shortly scheduled for drowning.
Brian David.
PS: The true hell of blogging is when you come out with a post that you know isn't a full expression of yourself, even presently. I mean, obviously this blog isn't a full expression of who I'm going to be in two years, but even NOW I imagine there's more I could say here and am not saying: blocked by my own pathologies in some unexamined place or other. Oh well.
Access: Public
Good Stuff Brondu. Let 'er flow!! ; o )
Genuinely,
David Jon
“It’s a good thing, blogging is, really…. It’s kind of like having a very personal discussion with yourself, and then sharing it with the world. Or manifesting as much or as little of your nuanced inland procedures in the all too obvious form of a pile of words, a pile of words just waiting to be dissected in the name of microevolution. OK I guess it still sounds awful.”
i like your style. you flex-flow. you're young and funny too. a deadly combo to get the chicks and get laid. but i digress…
let me answer your inquiry on whether everything is bloggable. i say “Yes.” but because they're bloggable doesn't mean that we have to blog them. ponder on that.
allow me to share my guideline in this new and hyper-evolving artform. it's from William Butler Yeats: “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
Thanks Rommel - I really appreciate the comment.
I quite agree with that guideline, although it obviously doesn’t look like it. Two (deplorable) things I’ve found out about myself since I began this blogging is: I like to measure everything I do, and I want people to know the extent of, well, who I am. Right now what’s at the forefront of that celebrated individuality (a concept which takes a harsh beating from a lot of wisdom traditions except sweeet, sweeeet Judaism) is the ability to synthesize jargon and come out with a post like the one above. That’s not the only reason I write, I really do want to communicate any helpful shit I have stored in me but at least some part of me is saying, ‘check me out. I know a lot of shit.’
Still, I’ve been moving away from that as much as possible. It seemed more to me lately that I was communicating in such terms more as a celebration of my abilities than any egocentric “LOOK AT ME” factor. I also may have been thinking along the lines of, “Ok, I’ll think like a wise man and communicate in the language of the people, but… what is the language of the people?” My answer to that must have been: Intense Wilberites or I would have written something different.
In any case I’m going to try and incooperate your guideline and advice into my posts. I’m not sure how long it will take or what exactly it will look like but… it will be fun.
Thanks again,
Brian David.
Tailoring posts is a good thing, if you are confident in your wise man role. If you aren’t, then who the fuck cares. Let ‘er rip I say and to the devil with the opinion of the people. Unless of course you are using this forum as a tool to explore and grow into your wise man self and to build a reputation as a wise man in the community. In which case the flow might well benefit from the tempering a dam would afford. But then again what the fuck do I know. No one visits my blog.
Genuinely Stupid
Joe
Brondu dude. i said i'm sharing my guideline. not imposing it. if i came across as arrogant, my apologies. sometimes i get carried away too. the same way you get carried away with yours. so carry on. your blog is your own expression. i'm just an audience watching it unfolds… and let me qualify that Yeats statement… i think it's better like this:
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of your target audience.”
note that the audience can be you and / or someone else.
p.s. for what it's worth i have a bad case of Wilberitis in this blog :)
Hey Coomel,
You didn’t come across as arrogant I’m just extremely hard on myself.
Because I agree with and see the wisdom in Yeats statement (particularly your updated version) I will impose it on myself. At least within reason. I’ll let myself go from time to time.
Your Wilberitis blog was hilarious (and informative, of course). Do more people read you these days? I really admire your work. Seems like you’ve done a lot more than make a blog. Seems like you’ve created a culture (with the help of zaadz technology and support, of course).
I do want to be widely read one day, so I think my target audience will have to broaden very shortly. Right now I see it as being relatively narrow, but.. I’m figuring that all out.
I really appreciate the comments. Thanks again.
Brian David.
For now it feels like I have to make posts like this so I know I can. Get the ol’ confidence up, get the old Voice authenticated and stylized.. and then from a platform where I’ve proven myself to myself I will write my own brand of the free-flowing awesomeness that is your blog. All in good time.
Brondu
Brondu said: “I do want to be widely read one day, so I think my target audience will have to broaden very shortly. Right now I see it as being relatively narrow, but.. I'm figuring that all out. I really appreciate the comments.”
i wish you well. i see you have the talent. i envy you actually because you're young and a showoff :) so here's another friendly suggestion from a relatively experienced blogger: shoot for depth first, rather than span. but if you're cocky enough, shoot for depth and span. then just let it go. people who care will gravitate towards you. the rest will read Boing Boing. and others will just chill on The Dilbert Blog.