Degradation

Am I sullying whatever little sanctity this medium has by using it as a scratch pad to do my office work? When I started blogging way back when,  I had my head in the clouds. I thought that the Internet wasn't so big after all and I was one of the select few who had that extra special spark of creativity. My blog would stand out,  I had thought. A worldwide audience would eat up my words to rave reviews.

Of course, that hasn't been the case. The internet has become everyone's backyard and school teachers tell kids to blog their assignments. The zing factor of all these things have pretty much worn itself out. It's always been my experience that the avant gard always moves on. What's cutting edge today becomes quotidian tomorrow. I've lived to see many of my pet interests become commonplace topics of conversation. And I've lived to see certifiable fools become professors too.

There isn't much sacredness to anything.  If you want, you can get away with pretty low things. I can and have dragged my own node through the mud plenty of times. Doing things of disrepute and not covering up my tracks. The leeway this world affords to you is almost criminal.