www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins
When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they’re missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Diderot’s project was fundamentally about building infrastructure for thinking. He wanted to create a shared repository of human knowledge that anyone could access, organized in a way that invited exploration and cross-referencing. He believed that structuring information properly could change how people thought.
He was right.
Couldn’t agree more with Joan’s whole post. Start a blog! Joan links to some good platforms.
Or at least give RSS readers another try!