You Can Win

A blog is what it is, a blog. I had thought a lot about removing the personal element from my blog but then the personal element is what makes my blog, my blog. I started blogging when I went to college, and there was a personal element to it back then too and back then there were so many people who used to blog, about their lives, their interests, it all died down by mid 2010s due to two reasons, political pressure on individuals and the rise of social media. Now who used to blog write long posts on Facebook and those who are aware of the deeper politics that has prevented people from writing blogs, do not write at all. Some like me, despite the political oppression at an individual level write nevertheless, though they are less and all of them, or at least majority of them, including me, have realised that writing doesn't really matter. Those who win Booker prizes do that because of circlejerking, and books and blogs even though they are important for kids, teens and young adults, serve no purpose to a man or woman beyond thirty years of age. For a person beyond thirty all that matters are newspapers and academic books. Though it's not at all bad to check what is going on in the literary and book world once in a while. People like Yuval Noah Harari are redundant now and they serve the same purpose as what was served by Rich Dad Poor Dad for poor people to intellectually curious people, while giving nothing that is actually of substance. Books and writing in general except scientific and academic writing is either just subjective experiences or imaginations of people. The world is not changing, it feels that it is, but I have realised that it has not changed at all. The change in the world is equivalent to a person changing clothes, just the appearance changes, the reality, a cold, exploitative, depraved and calculative world is as true as ever if anything it's gotten worse due to the internet as common people who believed in right and wrong before have consciously or subconsciously realised the actual truth of the world and have adapted to being selfish, obscene and hypocritical. I still write blogs, because for me the technology in the 90s and until late 2010s was more than enough and if the times had remained the same, I would have kept writing and so I keep writing blogs and other things when I get time. I want to give people two things either warmth or truth, or both. This is my goal in my writing. The world is deceptive and I want to remove the facade, and that I do through my writing. Fear is useless because fate, of anyone for that matter, is not good. It is not going to end well for, if not all, a lot of people and so they must know the truth of why it is so.