:: a new secret ::

you know how, in literature and history and all humanities, we study people and personalities, amongst many other things. say we study william blake, (when i say "study" it means at university level, in depth). we prob do a phD about william blake. they study him by reading his works, ALL his works. studying his biography. where he's born, when. put his birth in historical context. study his diary. study his letters to his contemporaries. put his works into historical and biographical contexts. draw inferences, accurate or inaccurate. write papers about all those stuff. draw conclusions, sometimes stretching the reality way too much. and so the william blake that we now read about is really the william blake that's outlined by past phD holders. are those inferences true? is that really who william blake was?

so i was thinking, how historians would interpret us, people of the 21st century. or rather, born in the late 20th century and grew up to witness the (in future obsolete) information age. how this capitalist craze and information technology that has us in its vice grip and has us cocooned in "revelation", how they would wonder at our ignorance, as we wonder at the ignorance of the Industrial Revolution era people. how they wouldn't read dusty old diary entries anymore but online blogs.

would they draw the conclusion from what they read on your blogs? what kinda inference would they draW? i suppose they would probably deduce that "chocolate bubbles" was a profoundly depressed woman with spurts of fast-dying happiness. they would probably think that my entries of happiness and joy was a form of self-delusion to hide my true depression, both from the public readers and from myself. there they would then deduce that information age made it easier for people to delude themselves. etc etc etc.

well. in any case i wonder at the conclusions they would draw if they put both my blogs together. yes, the new secret i have so enticingly put as the title is that i have a very very very private blog. i suppose it's not a terribly original thing to do, having a private blog, but well. that blog of mine is pretty dormant. for occasional fits of ourbursts that i don't deem fit to publish for everyone to read. well.

i forgot my point. haha. too much literature.