I have been thinking about doing this for quite some time as I think that it is an excellent way to preserve thoughts over the days, months and years. The fear is that it does preserve thoughts over the years and those thoughts may come back to haunt me when I least expect it. As we dive further and further into the technological age we are learning that having everything committed to writing, whether in text on your cellphone or in email on your laptop, can have some very daunting consequences. It almost seems ironic that the instrument (internet) that was supposed to provide us with the freedom of all the information, all the time, has now imprisoned us in our electronic word, sound and video.
We only need to look to the presidential election to see how we an unlikely candidate such as our friend Senator Obama is made to be held accountable for the sermonizing of his pastor. The text records form cellphones and hard drives have been used to incrimnate several individuals in high profile cases. How do we manage to keep our thought and discussion free in a world that records and memorializes our day to day frustrations? When will they come back to haunt us? What will it be that will force our final undoing? How about that risque Utube video that you made one night in your college days, or that cell phone shot of you in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Big Brother is not only watching but he is keeping tabs. It is the proverbial cow that has already left the barn. Once you hit send,upload or enter it is forever committed to the electronic eternity. There is no way to get it back, it will be copied, pasted, bolded nad italicized. It will be emebedded in a 4th graders report on the tropics and emailed to your co-workers on the job. So be carefull and be cautious of electronic commitment as there is no electronic annulment and no getting it off the NET!
Nevertheless, I blog on (very naievely) in hopes that my thoughts will not come back to haunt me and hope that this blog will stand as a historical record of a life well lived and a blog well written.
