Long Time No Blog
I just don't have as much to say these days. Or at least: I don't have as much to say in this forum. But no, I think it's more than that, because I find myself picking and choosing conversations I want to have (even conversations with myself) carefully these days. I'm picky with who I want to argue/discuss things with, and what I care to argue/discuss. More picky than I used to be, at any rate.
Today I was reading a post that was lauding Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" as a work of erotic fiction. My first impulse, no doubt, was to rail against such a notion (of course, all of Rand's fiction and most of her non-fiction could be used in BDSM contexts pretty easily, either as direct spanking-punishment implements, or by forcing one's submissive to read them). That impulse quickly waned. My next impulse was to read what other people were saying. It was all fairly predictable. My next impulse was to just click the little 'x' and go away from the conversation, which is what I did. Sure, there's part of my brain, in the background, still processing it, but I just have little desire to enter into such conversations right now.
And yet, I'm not feeling generally apathetic--in fact, I think I'm sort of feeling the opposite, as if I'm recognizing that feeling so deeply about stuff like Ayn Rand (or Xtian street preachers, or who gets to be a feminist) meant that I didn't have as much social or emotional space about things that I really do care more deeply about, and want to care deeply about (i.e. social justice, good friends, sex, probably not in that order).
Apparently I care enough about discussion what I care about to actually write and post here...at least today!