On Why We Don't Blog Anymore

Respect What We Have Lost

Literally because there is too much else to do which can fulfill a need for a second or two of complex interest before passing. I have to leave all devices in another room simply to be able to read a book. My fortnightly reading of Private Eye (Other satirical magazines are NOT available) is punctuated by quick dives into the Internet to check a name or fact. On top of this I think that my mind has become rewired (like a Taxi Driver's) to work better with short, complex images and phrases to the extent that longer prose does not quite sink in as it used to to.

This is of course a bad thing and we have to do something about it. My first action should be to delete my Facebook account. I have been considering this for sometime now and the recent revelations regarding the obviously immoral harvesting of data have just made this more likely. I don't see this bringing down Facebook (whatever Agent Q