Today I found out that I was selected Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Well, not I individually, but together with you and everyone else that uses the Internet. We are the people whom Time thinks are making the news for the innovative ways we connect with one another on the electronic highway.
Of course, being a minute part of such a massive enterprise is hardly any distinction at all. In this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle columnist George Will not only points out that fact but deflates most of Time’s unnamed honorees a second time by calling them unserious. In fact, he finds many bloggers and perpetrators of newer Internet possibilities narcissistic. Perhaps many people mounting their ideas on the Internet are more pleased with the fantasy of their names being hurled through cyberspace than in those ideas actually registering with other people. But that is not the case here.
I spend a considerable amount of time thinking and working through ideas before publishing them on this blog space. I hope that people are edified by my thoughts. Also, I would be delighted if readers would contact me with their opinions about my writing or about the subject matter. The interchange might make both them and myself more sensitive and reflective people.
