You and yourself

Everyone needs to hear about it

I have questioned the motive for writing this book. There were some rewarding aspects in amongst the tedium. The never-ending editing and refining was enough to deter anyone bar the foolhardy. I wrote it for myself, selfishness as always. Curiosity was sated, listening, and debating with many a friend and foe. So far so humdrum. It is available for free. If it were sold, I would not want or need a slice of the profits. However, did I hope it would reach a sizeable audience? Once I am gone, I am gone, but what about taking acclaim while I am still around? No credit is needed for this anyway for it contains not one ounce of credibility.

We could say that what we have put together is informative, educational or provides much needed amusement. It is easy to come up with something to justify it. Defer the truth, make it seem like there is a legitimate reason behind it rather than admit that it was to get noticed. If it turns out that nobody reads it, nothing much is lost. A writer satisfies their own wonderment about the subject matters. Even the few that get engrossed in it, soon forget most of it anyway. Some things stick but then we lose track of where we read it. The rest find ways of debunking it all. Feeling dejected about your lack of success is a feeling you will have to share with the countless other want-to-bees. There is only one queen bee per hive.

A great leader wrote what they thought was the most important document ever produced. Each person was expected to read and learn every chapter in the book. People were frequently tested to make sure they were fully conversant with it all. Those that weren’t were sent to re-education classes. The book contained a few good nuggets, a few wise words. However, there are always updates and more things that the leader needed to get across. Political sermons can be ignored if broadcast on the television. People can change the channel. To stop people with such temerity to duck listening to these important announcements they installed a speaker into every home. The speaker box had a control knob, allowing you to lower the volume a bit, but not turn it off. People in other nations would take a large hammer to such intrusions so other tactics have to be deployed. Is there anything that is so great that it merits chaining people to a desk, forcing them to get to grips with every nuance?

If people have an image to maintain they can fall back on manoeuvres that make it heretical to criticize. It is not just those that use godly references to hammer a religious message home, politicians and superstars in the making use the same tactics.

Can you slate a person building a pyramid however small and innocuous and write a text yourself without that being a little hypocritical? No, you can’t.