A Year Later, and Nothing Much has Changed.

Last March and April I had a sort of negative epiphany. I wrote the three peices of The Courts Will Not Save Us trilogy (see left side column for the links). In the middle of that, I also wrote Hoist the Black Flag!, which I had cause to re-read just a couple of days ago. It pretty much presages the conclusion of The Courts Will Not Save Us, but reading it again, I find no cause to change. I’m still willing to try to teach the horse to sing, and I still appear to have a stay of execution, so I think I’ll be doing this a while longer yet.

I’ve found over the last year that I’m often repeating myself, but I tell myself that I’m doing it for a larger, newer audience. Someone advised me once that, when lecturing (and really, that’s the best description for this blog that I can come up with) the best tactic to get your message through is:

Tell them what it is you’re going to tell them

Tell them what you told them you’d tell them

Tell them again what you just told them

Repetition seems necessary.

I’d like to reach a broader (read: fence-sitting) audience, but I’ll settle for what I’ve got for now. I’m pleased when, from time to time, I see that someone has spent an hour perusing the “Best Posts” or the archives, but I find it a little disappointing that my (on average) 600 visitors a day leave (on average) three or four comments, tops. And it’s generally the usual suspects – there are six or eight of you who consistently comment (and I’m not complaining about that!) I don’t get too many questions, and almost no outraged protest (Michael Klein being the one major anomaly to date.)

(Poor, poor pitiful me.)

Ah, well. I do this because I enjoy it, as much as posts like the one below piss me off. Perhaps it’s just catharsis, but I think I’ll keep on doing it. Hopefully it’ll keep on drawing an audience.