Is this blog like letters?
Ought it be?
I really quite like writing letters. I do it somewhat often and I like to think I’m fairly good with it. It could be a compelling format for this: responses to commenters, addresses to arguments had with internet friends, reachings out. 

I’m not sure letters written to anybody else are all that interesting, really. Maybe they are if you’re someone like Mark Twain or John Le Carre or Ulysses S Grant or Ursula K Le Guin or James Joyce. But those collections are usually written posthumously, or at least after they’ve found themselves quite famous. It’s another thing entirely if someone’s writing while a nobody, writing for an audience of aunts. Not that there’s anything wrong with aunts, I like writing for aunts. I’m quite fond of writing a blog for just people who love me and who I love. 

Isn’t that what they say you ought to do? Write for yourself and for people you like or even love, not for some imaginary audience? Does that apply outside of just writing literature? How about photography, furniture design, architecture? 

I think so.
I think that’s what I’ve been aiming for for years and years. If anything I ought to double down, making art that’s not just only enjoyable by people who love me, but only accessible to them in the first place. Not accessible in a password protect sense, but in so far as it would confuse people who didn ot know me personally. I think that should be the goal for artists on this side of the twentieth century. 

We’ve explored Mass Media, we know what it means for something to appealing to loads of people. We’ve been there and we have done that and I think it’s enough. Music and media that’s appealing to everybody is uninteresting...I wrote that then I realized that that’s sort of the point of the Church. Does that mean the church is uninteresting? I don’t think so. Is the church the only thing capable of aiming towards universal interestingness? 

What makes it cool for Catholicism to want to be universally appealing, but uncool for Taylor Swift. Why does the Church become more concentrated for the effort while others only water themselves down?

I have no idea.