Cowell Historical Society

Why Blogging is So Mainstream in Today’s Society?

In today’s society, the World Wide Web has expanded vastly. In the last decade the Internet has become an acquired taste for the idiosyncrasies of mankind, and the obsession of indulging in the depths of people’s souls, minds, and hearts. It has transformed from just a trivial means of communication to an infamous way of advertising, entertaining, and educating. It has become the most common form to obtain information in regards to any question or inquiry one might have in life, period.

The complexity of the Internet has swarmed into the most basic forms of marketing, and advertisement possible. The new trend is called weblog, or blogging. To blog or weblog is to keep a diary, or a journal of sorts. It is a chronicle used on a website, any website to convey information, feelings, and thoughts. As news, commentaries, documentaries, and commercials are to television, blogging is to Internet.

As odd as it may appear, it is a valid analogy.

Weblog is the full initial word in its entirety, blog is the contraction, a nickname for weblog. It relates well with its popularity on the web, it is easier to pronounce, and easier to type. Blogs were created as the need to expand, and share data and information became demanded. What need you ask? Well the old cliche’ goes “See a need, fill a need.” Individuals and businesses need a way to voice opinions, market services, and relate with others. Everyone has something to say, something to share, either to prove a point, or to advertise.

Blogging is embracing our rights by the constitution. It is our freedom to speak without consequences. To blog is the easiest way to share our thoughts, aspirations, and intentions through this vast new universe that we call the internet. There are endless possibilities when it comes to being a blogger. People post blogs endlessly on the web. They receive opinions and commentary on their thoughts, they obtain options on their business ventures, they seek solace in other’s opinions and ideas. It is the ultimate form of communication that has ever been established that hasn’t any boundaries to retain natural expansion. There is an enormous abyss of options in regards to bloggers.

The world awaits their every word. In some cases obsession consumes the world, with blogging. Patronize those who have much to say and do. Blogs are successful tools to inspire others to react and reply. People feed on this. Blogging on the internet has become an overwhelming trend within the Internet society. With the rise of technology promoting the web by web friendly devices that text and e-mail, to even the most candid computer gurus that have developed many new networking innovations. This modern technology has made it possible to access and interact with the entire world through the Internet, and by blogging it enables everyone to blog from anywhere, at anytime. It is a simple, but yet complex world. Blogging is paving the future. It is an enormous realm providing the ultimate portal to reach extents beyond which we still can’t even fathom.

Society and State overlaps

Men should be governed in a manner which suits them. This is the other way of saying all good things are for, by and of the people as written in a number of constitutions. However, society is not just a fixed corporations of people. The basic unit of Society is the person who is the citizen also. So what are the border in governing a person concerning Society and State?

The vitality of the State is not conferred by its political order, but rather flows from the social fact. This social fact is the spiritual and physical life of its many human members. When a man thinks of the State, he inevitably envisions policemen, taxmen, dog catchers, and bureaucrats in the highway department. When the same man contemplates his Country however, no such easily defined or concrete images come to mind. If the figure of the State is the lawmaker, the figure of the Country could well be the song writer or war hero.

An oppressive state leader could silence the song writer or cause the brave to lose heart, but all would be the poorer for it, because vitality flows from the society up, not the other way around.

Men who love their country have been known to die for it. American history is full of such examples. At Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Belleau Wood, Midway, or Iwo Jima, men did not die for the War Department, the State Department, or the Tennessee Valley Authority. They fought beneath the unfurled banner of their nation, with thoughts of home and family forever enshrined in their hearts.

The stability of the state greatly depends on this love of country. The fact that Ceasar wants and needs this love proves that the political order should grow out of the social fact.

Men should be governed in a manner that suits them. This cardinal principle of government is today in eclipse. Today there is much talk and movement in every area of life towards a New World Order. This World Political Order or One World Government would be an attempt at political order without social fact.

Men and women of any given country are well aware of their oneness in society and are therefore able to form a state. There is though, no such feeling of oneness for the human race as a whole in our present world predicament. There is no common view on anything essential in the social fact. There is not even agreement on whom or what Man is. A world political order of any description is neither possible nor desirable at this time.

It is also a grave evil to impose our form of government on the people of another country. It simply is not possible to get a Constitutional Republic, with separation of powers, limited central government, protection of minority rights, and the rule of law, by installing ballot boxes in third world, Middle Eastern, or Islamic countries. There is no historical foundation there, which would guarantee the rule of law. What you do get by installing ballot boxes is a temporary democracy that leads to majority rule and eventually mobocracy, anarchy, and tyranny.

In the case of America, there is no constitutional mandate to promote democracy anywhere. America is not a democracy and was never intended to be one. The Founding Fathers of America knew this all too well. That is why they gave us a Constitutional Republic, not majority rule. America is a great example of how thousands of years of trial and error in government and economics finally came to fruition in the year 1776.

This was indeed an example of the social fact moving to establish political order. Our government suits us best because it is a result of centuries of effort, involving forms of government, rule of law, the idea of unalienable rights, checks and balances, and cultural diversity. The freedoms we enjoy as Americans cannot be gained by roaming the world installing ballot boxes and then sending Jimmy Carter to ensure the fairness of the elections. The end result of such arrogance and corruption is majority rule and tyranny.

Others before us have had similar thoughts on the nature of democracy. James Russell Lowell believed that democracy gave every man the right to be his own oppressor. Lord Thomas Babbington Macaulay, was convinced that institutions purely democratic, must sooner or later destroy liberty, civilization, or both. Oscar Wilde was quite certain that democracy meant the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. The great American Justice John Marshall new the difference between a republic and a democracy. The difference was like that between order and chaos. Emanuel Kant, equated democracy with despotism.

Democracy is nothing more than a platform for demagoguery and a perennial fraud. It is saddening to know that thousands of our young men and now our young women have been killed or wounded in conflicts half way around the world in order to spread democracy.

Culture and Society

There are many myths regarding the conceivable causes of baldness and its relationship with virility intelligence ethnicity job social class wealth etc. While skepticism is warranted due to lack of scientific validation some of these myths may have a degree of implicit in truth.

You inherit baldness from your grand father. Previously early baldness of the steroid hormone type was thought to be sex linked dominant in males and to be sex linked recessive in females. Research suggests that the gene for the androgen receptor which is significant in determining chance for hair loss is located on the X chromosome and so is always inherited from the side of the mother. There is a 50% chance that a person shares the same X chromosome as their maternal grandfather. Because women have two X chromosomes they will have two copies of the androgen receptor gene while men alone have one.

However research has also shown that a person with a hairless father also has a significantly greater chance of experiencing hair loss.

Intellectual activity or psychological problems can origin baldness. This notion may be because cholesterol is involved in the process of neurogenesis and also the dishonorable material from which the body ultimately manufactures DHT. While the notion that bald men are more intelligent may deficiency credibility in the modern world in the ancient world if a person was bald it was likely that he had an adequate amount of fat in his diet. Thus his unhealthy development was probably not stunted by malnutrition during his crucial formative years he was more likely to be wealthy and also have had access to a formal education. how a sedentary lifestyle is less likely to correlate with intelligence in the modern world and dietary fat content is not linked to economic class in modern developed countries.