Blogging

It’s quite interesting to observe the modern blogosphere, and it seems to be far more engaging now than it was 10-15 years ago. Previously, people wrote just because or to satisfy their vanity. But now, writing/filming is done exclusively to earn money. All so-called top bloggers, as a brewer aptly noted, would “sell their own mother”—and it’s hard to argue with that; it’s just human nature. The technology for disseminating information is very well developed—there are popular networks, search engines, but somehow there are fewer and fewer real people there. Huge corporations fight for the right to own the minds of “little hamsters” and shape their opinion (so much for indirect democracy), and an endless amount of resources is directed towards this. For example, the recent story about the brewer and two vloggers from Perm smells like a colossal setup, but people seem to fall for it and believe that indeed officers from Petrovka would go to Perm over a libel case against two bloggers with an audience of 2-3 million people, half of whom are apparently bots. The hype has risen and crashed down on vulnerable minds. For several days, everyone was outraged about the terrible and lawless state we live in. People also remembered about predatory loans—but allow me, friends—isn’t it obvious that any loan will be expensive and you can probably do without it? Or isn’t it obvious that a bank, like an insurance company, is a structure aimed not at making your life better or easier but primarily at reallocating resources? It’s indeed hard for me to believe that people using large free services on the internet are surprised that they are being profited from. There’s a pretty modern saying, “If you can’t see the product, then you are the product.”

P.S. I guess I’ll end the first test post on the new domain and platform here. Unfortunately, I haven’t figured out how to transfer my old posts here yet, and it’s still unclear about how to enable comments and other cross-posting.

P.P.S. I think this blog will always be free and will not contain ads, and I’m also thinking about starting a podcast in the format of “YPP show.”