Is Blogging or Writing Pretentious?
The other day, I was going through my dashboard when I read a piece posted by the "Arctic Patriot." In the second paragraph, he makes a rather interesting statement. When writing publicly he offers, you put your thoughts out here and assume somebody wants to read about them. "It's really quite pretentious if you ask me." http://arcticpatriot.blogspot.com/ That is something I have never thought about yet I understand. That written thought also illustrates the power of writing and why we do it. We are conveying thoughts and ideas. We are speaking as free men using the greatest medium ever invented. Bloggers can write about things that would never get published in your local paper. Just yesterday, I wrote a piece about morally bankrupt lawyers. Many of them are still working. Where are you going to publish something like that? Where are we going to speak the truth about scared and fearful men who are willing to look the other way any time some elite, powerful,...