December 19, 2013

Blogdenity

These days what we do is mush words up together to make new ones. It's a trend.  It's trending.  Some examples are bromance, ........... and blogdenity.  Blogdenity is the idea that you are your blog. You are the same thing as your digital imprint.  At first it seemed like having a blogdenity was optional, and even private.  You could craft and experience the internet world without a fear of leaving the snail trail of your mind in an everlasting binary, to be saved, exploited, potentially used against you, certainly used to make inferences about you from afar, let alone allow for keyword searching of your mind to anyone who knows you or is close enough to inquire. 
     Are we our blogdenity, do we have two identities?  How do we reconcile our "online identity" with our real selves.  Is talking to no one while simultaneously talking to everyone with the potential to be heard by no one a communication process the mind and body can actually internalize?  Has the internet brought us closer to ourselves? each other? both?  If I think back on emails I've written, blog posts, google searches, facebook messages, tweets, photo up loads, i'm fucking blogging on blogger right now, there is basically a trace of a growing portion of my life, interest, and thoughts that's left an imprint.  Now, is it insane to all of a sudden feel naked.  Realizing that it may be possible to reproduce anything you've ever written on the internet since 1998, or earlier. Or for young ones, everything, ever.  Blogdenity may be the first thing the oligarchy tries to overtake in its subclass.  As we become increasingly used to all being voyeurs, and then in way, voyeurs of ourselves (What do I look like to people?  What am I projecting) then maybe someday we might lose our ability to step back, to separate our minds and experiences form our digital representation of them.  Then, incrementally, our pasts can be altered. Or worse, the plug could be pulled.  Can we survive without this outlet for narcissism, self reflection, self effacement, self promotion?  Are we already robots?



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