I just received one such email from the urbanmonk. So it got me wondering about this strange but so fruitful web logging culture. There is nothing man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it.
Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
In the dark, the fear of an unexpected touch can mount to panic. It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite. As soon as a man has surrendered himself to the crowd, he ceases to fear its touch. Blogging may be a way of entering the crowd, may be a way of reversing the fear of sincere expression and experience.