But I'm not thrilled about it, for two main reasons.
The first is that these platforms epitomize everything that's wrong with the tl;dr (too long; didn't read) attitude so dominant today. Most ideas are complicated, and they require a lot more than 280 characters or a couple of paragraphs to expound. By conforming with this culture of brevity, I'm afraid I'm only contributing to the problem
My second concern is that I really have no right to expect anyone to give a damn. Why should anywhere care what I think? And if I'm going to be so presumptuous as to request an audience, shouldn't it be for a work I've spent serious time completing? Sure, I can ask you to read my book, because it represents months of effort. A polished piece, a novel or a story, is the ultimate distillation of an artist's thoughts and creativity. But a blog post written between bites of pizza on a Thursday afternoon? A tweet published on a whim? Who cares? I certainly wouldn't.
And yet I'm asking you to read my blog and follow me on Twitter anyway. (It looks like my self-promotion skills are woefully lacking.) I hope you'll find something endearing in this forthright disavowal of my own project. One thing I insist on in my writing is honesty (well, in a certain sense- read below to see what I mean).
So, follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/BenjaminClabau2
And check back in on the blog! I hope to keep posting every few days.
Keep smiling. Wear a mask. Black lives matter.
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