In reply to blogging about blogging about blogging – soulcruzer.
Blogs are, from the reader perspective, a window into the personality of the blogger. The window can have varying levels of opacity and the light coming through can be polarised. The best blogs are a window of transparency free of polarisation in that way the mind-light, transmits across the entire spectrum and the personality shines in all its chaotic glory. – Dave Anderson
Your comment, Dave, is a pretty cool metaphor, and I love how you’ve framed blogs as a “window into the personality of the blogger.” I like the idea of varying opacity and polarisation. Blogs are indeed like windows, and I think they’re also like prisms: the light of a blogger’s personality can refract into a spectrum of colours, revealing hidden facets and depths that a plain window might not show.
I wonder if some level of opacity or polarisation isn’t part of what makes blogging so fascinating. After all, isn’t personality itself a construct of layers, contradictions, and shifting masks? Perhaps the “chaotic glory” you mention arises not despite these filters but because of them—like stained glass transforming raw light into art.
For me, the best blogs aren’t necessarily those that strive for perfect transparency, but those that embrace their complexity. A little polarisation can add dimension, like shadow adding depth to a painting.
Sometimes the most honest light is fragmented, capturing the chaos and beauty of a personality in flux. What do you think? Can the “mind-light” shine fully even through layers of artifice and reflection? Or does transparency remain the ideal we’re always chasing?
note: with this post, i’m trying out the new ‘reply’ post-kind type. i suppose this post-kind is most useful when riffing on a comment (like a jazz musician) as opposed to commenting on a comment. but i wanted to try it out anyway.
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