Thought of the Day

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

In Z&AoMM, Pirsig is very self-centred but it is an "extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth".

I decided to make this quotation the thought of the day because it's pertinent to reading and my ambivalent relationship to reading. It's also clearly pertinent to blogging which apparently is now considered passe (don't know how to make the accent) or "so last year". That actually makes me feel more enthusiastic despite the fact that I have so little spare time right now to spend on the internet. Do I doubt the dogma of blogging and therefore feel compelled to keep supporting it? I read a newspaper article about the diminishment of blogging. The writer felt it had to do with people not having very much to say beyond what they said last year. Or that those who have things to say have tried blogging and now they're movin' on to some other form of self-expression. What would that be (clearly I'm skeptical - desperate as I am to "hang on" to blogging as a practice)?