Ideology and the Vagueness of Blogging: Ide-blogogy

Since so much blogging is afoot these days, I find it prudent that I get with the times and contribute some textual content to the mass of 1s and 0s we’ve all come to know so well in recent years, the Internet. The content mostly tackles an individual’s interactions with the universe, reacting frequently to art and various politics while attempting to sculpt or perhaps build upon a type of known, personal ideology.
It is the belief of this blogger that ideology is not so devious an entity as it is so frequently made out to be, though its manipulation at the hands of various media outlets poses ideology as a free entity ripe for the profitous pillaging. On its own, ideology belongs to the individual, is his or her “own”, and it may be observed and analyzed as often as is the desire of said individual.
I believe it was Socrates who once said that “the unexamined life is itself not worth living.” Food for thought, certainly, but what this Classic Greek aphorism fails to acknowledge is the infallible pleasure to be found in moderate exercises of the mind and body, relishing in the presence of an unaccommodated conscience; “living” in the most physical and tangible sense.
Yes, while it is our bliss as humans to treasure the moment, to encapsulate time and indulge in the art of others, it is also perhaps our responsibility to seek connection with our proximal environment and to share time challenging ourselves. What I hope to find in the midst of this tangled circular discussion is a balance, a balance in lifestyle, in meaning, in blog, that balances both the individual’s responsibility to combat the “obviousness” of ideology as Althusser would have it known, shifting and redefining to refresh one’s world perspective while at the same time grasping comfortably the reigns of a life not merely bent on existential definition, but also on laughter! And merriment! And poetry! And somewhere in the muddle, those two cherished realms of life, perhaps identified by Roland Barthes as “plaisir” (pleasure) and “jouissance” (bliss), may touch. In the mean time, I would merely acknowledge my aim to serve both ideas equally.