Back to Basics

Written on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 3:51 pm | by Marck Ronald Rimorin

In the interest of debate, I have to agree with Rom: I don’t give a hoot if Jun Lozada or if Ed Panlilio will launch a blog.  What difference does it make?  So freaking what, if everyone already has a blog anyway?

I started blogging three and a half years ago.  There are definitely other people out there who have been blogging for longer than I have, but I was there way before blogging became so popular that even Jun Lozada is launching one tomorrow.  Before blog awards, Multiply, and Brian Gorrell, people thought that there must be something wrong with you if you blog.  These days, if you don’t have a blog, there must be something really wrong with you.

This will sound offensive: while blogging is for everyone, not everyone can blog.  Transliterated: while writing is for everyone, not everyone can write.

It’s time we went back to basics.

I’ve often been chastised by friends for putting “too much emphasis” on “aesthetic value.”  Yes, I do agree with the saying, “Write to express, not to impress.”  Expression, ladies and gentlemen, can only get you so far.  You have to leave that lasting impression.  You have to influence people.  You have to make a difference.

This isn’t an issue of correct grammar or glittery graphics that look like a puddle of dog urine.  This is an issue of the public good.  Like I wrote countless times in the Experiment: if you remain blind, passive, and apathetic to the injustices that you yourself experience as a member of society, then you have no right to attack any form of injustice whatsoever.  You are more than welcome to “drown in the darkness” of your sorrows, and to “plunge yourself into the emotional abyss.”  By the way, you are more than welcome to stay there for as long as you need to.

A difference-maker is what the Philippine blogosphere needs: not a Lozada, not a Panlilio, and not the not-so-remote possibilities of a Francis Escudero or an Alan Cayetano blogging before 2010.  Someone will have to step up to the plate and secrete the necessary hormones to speak against the injustices of poverty, corruption, graft, and social services that suck.  That difference-maker is the voice of an entire generation of Filipinos, a difference-maker who makes a difference in cyberspace.  Someone to give that lasting impression that a legitimate threat to the order exists in the blogosphere.

In a word, a blogger.  Sadly, we’re in short supply of bloggers these days.

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About The Author: Marck Ronald Rimorin is a twenty-something blogger, "critic," and writer from Baguio City, and currently works in Metro Manila as a writer. His personal blog is at The Marocharim Experiment

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