Finally experienced ontological freedom offered by blogs
With this blog, I feel like I have touched one of the most potent possibilities that blogs offer: ontological freedom.
In times past, across countless small blogs and owned websites, I never really experienced that freedom because I myself kept constraining that freedom by following the ontologies or taxonomies of tags, categories, labels, themes, about pages and so on. By carrying “identity” everywhere. “What does this say of me”, “How does this make me look”, and so on.
After all that, here I am, experiencing blogging that’s not tied to “my identity”. This could also be an organic phenomenon as one goes through phases of maturation, contemplation, grounding, and simple embodiment. Loosening the grip on textuality as an identity-defining or identity-anchoring thing.
This blog opened up pretend play for me. A place to feel like I engaged in various interesting ideas that come up in me. Experiencing them like pretend kitchen play sets of children is enough for me. I don’t need to design flyers, book a cafe, and put up the flyers around town to make it happen as a social/cultural event.