Sunday, February 27, 2005

Closed

I haven't been tending this garden particularly well in recent weeks. Most of the plants are dead. The soil is hard and unforgiving.

Therefore, I'm of a mind to wall off the garden and leave it to the elements. Perhaps not permanently, but for a significant amount of time. I may pop up at my other blog, WhyHeRuns.blogspot.com. Writing and, really, reading, are becoming tiresome to me. I don't really want to do anymore with the world of James Dobson and Howard Kurtz and Jeff Gannon. It's increasingly becoming a world of abstractions for me, abstractions I don't feel much control over. I always felt like I had more to say than I said. I have a tendency online to edit and selfcensor in ways that are more obvious to me here than in the world of flesh and blood. I didn't like that. I don't like not having an audience, although I know I never really sought one out.

I got into all of this to vent. To get in touch with some representation of what upset me and to rail against it.

But I'm feeling increasingly like my political opinions aren't interesting to anyone, particularly myself. I'm feeling like my connection to politics whatsoever was arbitrary, an attachment born of the disgust at seeing antiliberals metaphorically spit on me and those like me from television screens.

Enough!

This spot is hereby closed, although I may change my mind at any moment.