Identity Crisis

Lately, this blog has been suffering an identity crisis.

In the beginning, I started this blog to post photographs that I took of things that interested me. Then, I started to intersperse other people's photographs into the postings, giving credit to the photographer as required. After a drought, I started posting silly pictures of myself dressed as a zombie.

Somewhere along the way, I started to post stream-of-consciousness rants, more for me than for my readership (such as it is). I never really bothered to make such rants coherent, rather letting them meander about without sense of structure or resolution. Lately though, I've started to post on more pensive topics, but keeping the structure loose and the arguments looser.

Now, I know my writing style, and this blog really has not been a good representation of it. It's all over the place, really. This space was never meant to be a place where I formally laid out arguments, or wrote meaningful prose, or even posted anything that I'd like to have quoted back to me in a court of law. It's been a drawing board, an empty desk, a fifty-five gallon drum in which to dump ideas.

But, reading back on some of the previous posts, I'm starting to realize that I may not be doing my own rants justice by posting them so loosely. I'm not getting the meat of several ideas I'm floating about, mostly due to intellectual laziness. For example, a few posts ago, I ranted about the nature of reality as it relates to belief, five ways to fundamentally alter our form of government for the betterment of the People, and so on; not really the funny pages here.

So, this blog finds itself with an identity crisis. It wants to be a place where structured arguments can be made, but it also doesn't want the scrutiny that comes with that. It wants to be a place to showcase personal photographs, but without the ego that this implies. It wants to be a place where deep personal thoughts can be shared, but wants to remain anonymous and out of sight. It wants to be a place where beauty can be showcased, but still remain cold and impersonal.

I don't know what I'm going to be doing with this space in the future. One day you'll see silliness, another day might bring structured logic. I may post images of my own or images that I find interesting. I may republish someone else's opinion with credit, or I'll lay down some original ideas that might just blow your fucking mind.

Whatever I do, it will still be worthy of the ThoughtCancer persona. Speaking of which, no one really knows where that persona came from. That might be a good post in the future...