blogs

So i've been discovering the entertainment of reading other people's blogs. Since I genuinely considered law school a little while ago, I am ecstatic to have discovered this female lawyer's blog who works for a large NYC firm and, as far as I can tell, hates it with a passion.

There's apparently this whole made-up world out there of bloggers and famous bloggers and famous bloggers' fans. It makes me think of this theory of celebrity I heard somewhere. The idea is that we used to live in fairly small, typically agrarian communities of up to 500 people. So, everyone more or less knew everyone else. Now we live in huge anonymous uber-communities and no one even knows their neighbors' names. To deal with such a lack of connectivity and not feel hopelessly isolated, we form connections to people such as Brad Pitt. These people obviously don't give a flying fuck who we are, but we know their love lives, birthdays, and middle names. They also help connect us with the anonymous masses because, although we don't know each other, we all know Brad Pitt.

I think this blogger celebrity thing is an even bigger extrapolation of that. I don't know this NYC lawyer woman but I do now know the things that happened to her yesterday, how she feels about law school and how much she had to drink on Friday night. All this without having any clue of even what she looks like.

If nothing else, modern society provides endless fodder for analysis.