Scott Allan’s World

I have not blogged about much of anything in a while.  Like many bloggers, I have fallen into the Facebook trap.  It’s so easy to share a link and make a quick comment on there that I no longer take the time to duplicate or expand upon it in the blog.   Most of my regular blog visitors have also became Facebook Friends   Of course commenting on politics on Facebook has gotten my posts hidden by quite a few of my other “friends”.   I could take the approach of trying to not alienate my diverse collection of friends there by not posting anything except benign posts such as what song I’m listening to, what I had for breakfast, how cold it is outside, 25 things about me, etc.  However, I figure if you are truly a close friend of mine, you are not surprised at all by my political postings so why should I care if the rest have me “hidden”.     I don’t have time for people who are, as I say, “pseudo-offended” by everything and everyone they disagree with.  They have fallen into a cultural trap of political correctness that is used to control the thoughts and speech for social and political change.  We have become a nation of wimps.  We have been trained to have our feelings hurt and feign outrage every time someone looks at us the wrong way.  Criticism is not countered by logical debate anymore, rather it is silenced by over the top anger and name calling.

That being said, I apologize for not blogging much about politics lately.   I was energized by the Tea Party movement last year, but since then I have seen Health Care get passed in both Houses, I have seen unemployment keep climbing, I have seen reckless and irresponsible borrowing and spending, I have seen our country run by a bunch of liberal buffoons who seem bent on moving our country wildly to the left no matter what the cost to our liberty and economy.  It would almost appear as there is a deliberate attempt to make people more dependent upon government by destroying the economy.  Somehow people have come to believe that all problems can only be solved by more government control.

Frankly I am discouraged.   If I blogged about everything in the news that bothered me, I’d be blogging all day, every day.  Despite the Tea Party movement and polls showing that most of the country disapproves with the direction we are headed, there seems to be no way to stop any of it.  So lately I have thrown up my hands in despair and stopped blogging.  I can only hope that the 2010 elections have a profound change.  I have noticed than many of my Conservative blogger friends have also given up on political blogging or blogging altogether.

I guess I have forgotten the purpose of my blog in the first place.   I don’t write it for anyone else, I write it for me.   I get to express myself and also share photos and videos with my family.    I have always enjoyed my interaction with the few visitors I get.   It would be nice to have a massively popular blog that I could make money with, but since I haven’t figured out how to do that, I’ll be satisfied with my small corner of the Internet.