Friday, April 27, 2007

Is blog really bourgeois? An arguement with myself.




Moot (or some such wanky term):
The blogger is one with "spare time"

Argument one: The whole concept of blogging is limited to the rich. It is limited to those lucky enough to have more than they require. The hand-to-mouth masses are excluded from world wide self-display and this exacerbates the abyss separating rich and poor. The poor have always had trouble in being seen and heard and blogging is an illustration and symptom of this. Even in the West the division presents itself with those bottom-of-the-heap proletarians underrepresented in blogging - and democracy.


Argument two: All cultures, in all countries have spare time. There must be time for stories to be passed down generations. There must be time for sitting/smoking/resting/drinking/festivaling. Very few people genuinely have no spare time.
It is what one chooses to do with spare time that varies between class. By implying that blogging is somehow more valuable than sitting and talking shows the direction of ones bias. Blogging shows the isolation and inferiority of the bourgeois (and other Richy's).




1 comment:

gudhed said...

are ponies bourgeois?