Peek-a-Boo World*

The jury is still out on what I, Stu, think of blogging in the context of typography versus telegraphy in our post-modern world. House Calls has been an adventure over this year past, for me to keep it up but also by having opportunity to report on what I see as it flashes before me on the internet. Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death states:

"The telegraph made a three-pronged attack on typography's definition of discourse, introducing on a large scale irrelevance, impotence, and incoherence. The demons of discourse were aroused by the fact that telegraphy gave a form of legitimacy to the idea of context-free information."

In other words, what do you do on a daily basis about the random bits of news, albeit horrifying at times, for example bridge collapse, troops in Iraq killed, etc, yet Postman declares he took the liberty of answering that question for you: You plan to do nothing about them.

So, the blog, to me falls in the same category of insignificant made significant for a fleeting moment revealing nothing more than my mindset for the day or what I chanced across on the web, logged down here mostly for entertainment value and perhaps an inside look at what my life and opinions consist of. Nothing world changing, that's fer sure.


*Title of Chapter 5 in Postman's book.