Moot The Point

My wife hates blogging. I can’t say I totally disagree with her. However I’m opposed more on the basis of the name. What a stupid word. Blog. I can see it used so much better in other contexts, – “OK, who forgot to flush and left the huge blog in the toilet?” or “Gross, when you sneezed you got blog all over the windshield.” Or “Man, what a night I had so much to drink I think I blogged my guts out.”

I suppose it’s because it hasn’t yet become part of my vocabulary and still sounds…well stupid. By the way being aesthetically opposed to something is legitimate. I don’t have a reason for that previous sentence but it will all become clear if you just read my second point. I won’t say “bling” either and I don’t write the abbreviation for “laughing out loud.” So don’t tell me any instant message jokes. By the time I tell you I’m laughing, it won’t be funny anymore.

1. It’s a stupid word

(I know I really communicated this point in the previous paragraph I just needed something to start off my outline.)  The problem with the word “blog” is that it’s sounds like people who don’t know how to speak Chinese making fun of Chinese by making sounds that sound very little like Chinese. (I used the word Chinese about three times too much in that last sentence).

2. Do we really need more information?

Look we already have enough (too much) information. Worse, blogging isn’t a result of a studiously generated opinion it the result of…well not a studied conclusion. While I know that’s not always true, smart people do blog -exactly 97.2% of blogs are stupid. Much like this one.

Now that isn’t to say that we can’t entertain ourselves mindlessly with the minutiae of other peoples daily lives. However I submit that the ones that blog their lives for all to see are morally opposed to buying celebrity gossip rags. We’ll write about pointless moments in our own lives but we can’t see why anyone would waste good money to find out about Paris and Brittany. At least the “Star” is making money! We (I started to say “you” but here I am blogging) are simply wasting time – ours as well as others.

3. We do things that don’t make good sense.

This third point isn’t really a point. While it’s a great example of my second point, it remains a very true statement. Not to say that blogging is the first thing that humans have done that is pointless and stupid. I could come up with a top ten list of pointless and stupid things we do, but top ten lists are an example of what I’m talking about. Hey look! A figure skater beating up a sychronized swimmer on YouTube – I better forward it to every e-mail address I can find!

So, all that being said, here’s a paradoxical blog. By a person opposed to blogs. And who doesn’t even like the word.