Reflecting Pool Discourse Web Blog Grand Opening — Free popcorn and balloons for the kids!!!
Yet another web blog to add to the glut of web blogs in the Universe. Everyone clamoring for the podium to dispense a few pearls of wisdom & insight. But who’s all that interested in ‘listening’ these days? Time was when headphones could only ‘listen.’ Then they added a microphone and it’s been talk, talk, talk ever since. A neurotic World theater packed tight with talkers who are tired of listening.
And the vast majority of them are pounding their gums to dead air. No one is listening to the blather. It’s more like the ‘Reality TV’ pandemic. Everybody buying lotto tickets so they’ll be ‘in the running’ for their magic moment 5 minutes of fleeting fame, usually bestowed by a long-shot fluke of luck, like when their blog post or YouTube video goes viral after Paris Hilton happens to punch the wrong key on her keyboard and accidentally re-tweets your Internet URL to 2,000,000 of her leech-bed followers who are anxiously scrounging around for their own moment of fame and good fortune.
I think CB Radios would never have gotten off the ground if they could only transmit signals, but could NOT receive any signals. Yet TV & AM-FM radio appear to be doing just fine without the ability to receive signals from the same ‘victim’ their broadcasts target. Maybe that’s why people are so tired of listening. All it has gotten them is a glut of spamming commercials that gobble-up the programming they were watching. Unilateral signal dispersal is quite different from the bilateral exchange, otherwise commonly referred to as true “Communication.”
But despite this general malaise in the blogosphere environment, here we are, adding yet another web log (blog) to the fire. Maybe the Free popcorn and balloons will help ease the pain.
Then again, a Socratic web blog that emphasizes Listening might not be such a painful idea after all.
To this end, all of the topics at the Reflecting Pool Discourse blog site are open for discussion and your participation by way of Comments on the articles posted is invited and encouraged. At this point in time, Moderator approval IS REQUIRED before a posted Comment will appear on a Post (necessitated by spammers and hackers).
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