Final Verdict
I have decided to let this place go. I’m gonna renew the domain name for another year. If I think of some other vehicle for the domain in the next year, I may keep it longer than that. If not: ashes to ashes, bits to bits.
I’ve come to think that writing about social issues is also useless. That was the only possible other purpose I had in mind for the blog. I have found in my own writing and in reading some other more famous blogs that too much of how your writing is perceived comes not from the ideas in your piece, but from the biography of the writer. I don’t believe that my own words are ever either so vaguely stated or so poorly written as to allow for, literally, opposite interpretations. Yet I’ve found that to be the case at times. People who know me, know my family background, know my (admittedly lapsed) resume as an activist, etc will think I am saying one thing while people who don’t know or only know a portion of that will think I’m saying the opposite. If my writing isn’t that vague, then the reasons I’ve stated seem adequate ones for quitting. It’s the author, not the words that people are reading. If my writing is that vague, then I’m not suited to doing this.
