AmeriCorps/Nonprofit Blog
According to Sarah's Magic Eight Ball, I am going to receive a phat scholarship from Clark University. What a relief.
The DNC has started, but I was so disgruntled with catching a summer cold over the weekend, that I didn't even remember! Gracious.
But hooray for NPR! I'm back on track. And since I don't have a TV to deliver the three paltry hours of coverage, I can get my fill via WBUR and the internet. Delicious.
Speaking of the internet, Dick Gordon discussed the role of bloggers at the Convention during the second hour of his show, The Connection. I love that show; it's one of my favorites. So being now a blogger of sorts, I thought it was my duty to weigh in on the blogging phenomenon (of course, I have the distinciton of being read solely by people who know me, since the interent catalogues site slower than the proverbial molasses (or at least, so it seems to me).
Unfortunately for me, I don't have a lot of time to devote to blogging or the reading of blogs as I have no interent access outside of the Habitat office (and that connection is tenuous at best).
But I find them fascinating, although also a bit pompous and self-inflating. I mean, why should we care what these people think? However that's a simplification and kind of cynical, lazy malaise that has led to the the general population's apparent disinterest. Although, the more I talk to people--and maybe this is just the people I talk to--the more I agree with the article in the Onion that stated: The marjority of the US population is out of step with the mainstream. In other words, a lot of this apparent disinterest is really just propaganda and a fabrication of mainstream media.
Nothing very eye-opening there. But it's still fascinating how out of step I feel compared to the mass media/culture (even more so without a TV), and yet how in step I seem to be with most people around me. Perhaps my interest in current events and politics is a little stronger than others, but I know very few competely uninterested individuals--and most of those are really just tired of that garbage being shoved at them.
So why don't we rise up and change it?
Viva la revolution!
