Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel, and the Gnostic Gospels in Egypt, and Dan Brown in virtually every best-seller list, there's been archaeological/theological disputes over exactly who wrote what, when, where and why. But now with the furious arrival of the Internet, you have to wonder if anything anyone writes is actually worth anything anymore...?
When fellas like Homer, Aristotle, Mark, Luke, Paul, Augustine and Dante wrote, they helped change the world. The same is true with the later likes of Shakespeare, Dickens, Melville, Hemingway, and Mailer. But wait...! Now anyone of us can write. Anything...anytime...anywhere. On websites...facebooks...twitters that instantly circle the globe. What the hell's going on here?
Washington Irving -- another writer of some consequence -- once wrote: "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." Made me think of myself. Oh, and you too! Because today don't we all tend to write and write and write? A deft endeavor once reserved to those great minds that had something great to say. The Internet -- god bless all its wonders -- has somehow entitled each of us to do what I'm doing right now. Write and write and write some more.
Cyberspace is choking with each of our thoughts and musings, our causes and complaints. After awhile don't we become mostly a matter of quantity rather than quality? What brought this home was Dana Hanna of Maryland. Just a few weeks ago, the dashing Dana interrupted the minister conducting his wedding ceremony to yank out his iPhone. He enthusiastically sent the following Tweet: "Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife. Gotta go, time to kiss my bride."
I ask you now -- in the name of every publisher in every generation in every country of the world -- what the hell's going on here? Frankly, I'm too embarrassed to write another word.............
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You are kind of defeating your purpose here...you have a blog that you write on every day....so YOU are one of the people you are writing about.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I think we are suffocating ourselves with all this technology at times.
You're absolutely right...and I DO include myself...we're all just a little too caught up in ourselves...having said that, I admit it keeps me busy
ReplyDeleteThere is a difference in thinking, researching or contemplating prior to writing, as exhibited by Mr. Spatafora, rather than just writing without a clue or without a clue as to the consequences resulting from your actions.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous -- thank you for your reactions to my modest efforts. You're just the sort of person I try to write for...
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