a blog post to begin a new wave of blog posts

so, i've been told that i should start posting again.... and well, today, it is cloudy out, and i am studying-ish, so i thought, why not?
i've pulled out the old laptop from underneath an inch of dust (kidding, it sits on my desk and is almost always on) - and well, here i am.. typing absolute nonsense.
let's see...
to be honest, i haven't posted anything in ages because i've been experiencing a bout of writer's block. however, i think one of the reasons why i've been so unsettled this past little while is that my little blog outlet was missing... so maybe this'll help. maybe not... we'll just have to see.
i have gotten to read a few books over the past year, and they are a lot different than the books i used to read. latest additions to my bookshelf (other than the books i've been reading for french class): the tipping point (malcolm gladwell), and the world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century (thomas l. friedman)- yes, you read correctly - the twenty-first century. brilliant books, actually. the former deals with the question of trends and social behavior changes - and how to induce them to a certain extent, and the latter discusses the changes that are going on in the world from a global level.
i find it really interesting to read about our world and the social forces that are currently at play. i'm sure some people really do not care - and i can understand to a certain extent why they would not care - but for me, i see things going downhill... taking a nose dive fast and it needs to change. now, here there are two ways of reflecting on the path of disintegration that humanity is on - the first involves looking at social structures and individuals separately, and pointing the finger (and solutions) at one or the other; the second looks at social structures and individuals in an integrated manner: namely, that one influences the other in a type of dialectic.
ok, so i know that at this point, my ST would say: YHS - we're lost in your junkyard of thought - so i'll make a statement: i think that if we're to change society and make it follow a less self-destructive trend, we need to look at how we can affect both individuals and the social structures that these individuals are a part of - ourselves included.
take for example, blogging. as i recall, when i was in high school, blogging started out as a type of online diary type of thing, where you could write your "deep thoughts" for a group of people to see. when i started blogging last year, i decided to make it more of a forum for my observations on society and my environment, than about my personal life - and so have many, many people. it's gotten to the point where bloggers (the more hardcore ones - i'm nowhere near that!) actually have an effect on our society. news agencies are beginning to realize that they have competition. heck - dan rather should've watched his back a bit more closely...eheh - anyway, i'm on a tangent (to learn more about what i'm taking about, just go read some of friedman's book) but the thing is that our structure in society - that we go grab a newspaper, or turn on the TV, or radio for news - is changing. people are learning that there is this whole new side to the world that they can see through the eyes of individual bloggers, rather than through the lenses of news broadcasting agencies (which may i add are all owned by a handful of individuals) and so these news broadcasting agencies are starting to change their approach to news. BBC is a great example. they now have an open forum in which people can comment on world events, and share pictures and videos that they may have - but the reality is that the influence of bloggers on the traditional news agency (TNA) and the reaction of the TNA on the bloggers, will lead bloggers to do more things that will affect the TNA's - and you see, it's like a feedback loop that is constantly expanding (for all you geeks out there - this is called a positive feedback loop)
so if we're out to change the world - we need to affect both individuals and social structures - and i think it's a lot easier than we think it is... and that's part of the reason why i'm not so worried about it all - i'm doing a lot to make sure it does change, but i'm not worried if you know what i mean.
and those are my thoughts for today....