Sunday, January 17, 2010

Why I am not a good Blogger

Actually I think nobody is a good blogger – nobody can be. The principle of the blog is to perpetually babble on about something. About anything. Ideally daily. Unfortunately nobody has something relevant to say every day. In fact most of us never have anything relevant to say in the first place. So – why would I bother spending my time writing something irrelevant day in, day out?

Think about what kind of Blogger Albert Einstein would have been. The great Albert, the Icon of intellectual superiority and moral integrity in the 20th century. He would have written E equals m c squared. Grand. He would have written on a bit the Lorenz transformation. Interesting. And a few rather incomprehensible treatments on tensor calculations and 4 D space time. A no – actually he would not have written that in a blog as he would have published these things – as he did then – in peer reviewed academic journals. So what would Einstein have written in a Blog? Maybe a few witty statements about fashion, God (also a fashion) and a few things about people and their follies in general. There are a few dozen bonmots about Einstein. But not much more. Actually I believe he would not have become a blogger. Because there is no reason for it. Maybe some students would have sat down and collect his quotes and put them up on a blog or on Twitter or a similar one of all those hollow internet entities.

Einstein simply did not have enough to say to create an interesting blog. So who the hell would I be...

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:00 AM

    a relative theory. you never know. he was famous for his ambivalence, too. don't be so hard on yourself. you don't have to be an Einstein! ;)

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  2. Well - I am not hard on myself alone, but on the vast majority of bloggers, if not mankind at large, which, of course, makes me an arrogant s.o.b. But no: whatever I say here is strictly subjective. Also the very nature of blogging :-).

    Einstein was not famous for his ambivalance. Nono. He was famous for his genius and his moral integrity and his cultural creativity (what would be considered lack of focus and style in my case - or indeed ambivalance) *;->.

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  3. perhaps he would have written: the internet has taught us that reality is relative!

    lg stefan kibellus

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  4. perhaps he would have written: the internet has taught us that reality is relative!

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  5. perhaps he would have written: the internet has taught us that reality is relative!

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  6. @Stefan K: Na - (special) relativity theory talks about reference frames

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  7. Relativity theory gave us some very straight and logical insight into reality. It more hints at the idea that there is an absolute reality - notwithstanding the fact that this reality contradicts human intuition. Reality is entirely indifferent towards human intuition. It is difficult to use physics metaphors for social phenomena - half understood words are transfered to a completely new universe of meanings. But the words only, and not their true meaning, as that is deeply mathematical in nature. The Internet has taught us what a chaotic lot we humans are. The Internet teaches us day in, day out, that the cover of civilization is thin... greedy and confused domesticated monkeys with cars and keyboards.

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  8. sleeping monkeys with cars and weapons! the mankind like to knows all about but their understanding is like nothing.....

    lg stefan kibellus

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