Blogs not about anything

I like blogs. I don’t think I’ve written that down before — at least not in public. I suppose I have a lot of opinions that I haven’t written down in public.

Anyway, I like blogs that are about something, which is fortunate because most blogs are about something. There are a lot of blogs about “rationalism”, for example. These are pretty good, not least because they give numpties like me a handful of talking points that I can bring up in conversation to demonstrate how Clever I am.

But I’m slowly going off blogs that are about something in favour of blogs that are just journals of regular folks’ idle thoughts. The latest orthodoxy mutates so quickly that I can't keep up, and feels unimportant and consequencelessly culture-war-ey. And I feel increasingly estranged from the only-lightly-filtered daily experience of other people’s lives: maybe this is because writing on the web is micro-optimised to sell me things or make me think a certain way; or maybe this is because I work from home and so opinions aren't buffered by having to face other people's judgment.

So a blog about e.g. a guy who keeps getting his stuff stolen resonates with me, because it’s not about anything: it’s just the way he feels.