Thankyou,

 

Since you didn't put your name to this, I'm not sure who I'm saying hello back to... but hello back, anyway! And yes, it's always good to think about things. Thinking has an image problem in this society, and I think that's very sad. At the end of the day, that's what has bound all my blogging together; so, as I've always said, regardless of "what" it makes you think, that it makes you think, at all, is good enough for me! You're quite right, we can become lost consuming this endless smorgasboard of seemingly "mindless" entertainment.  The most frustrating thing I hear is people saying, "But it doesn't mean anything - it's just trash". There is no such thing as something that doesn't have any meaning - it is, by our very nature, impossible. Everything we do, say, think, feel - all of it - has meaning within it. If someone ever shrugs something off to you, and says, "Oh, don't worry, it didn't mean anything", they're either lying, or, as if often the case, are simply disconnected to the meaning. That's what I have tried to address here, in my blogging: that people have become so unconscious to everything, they truly do believe there is no meaning in things. Au contraire. And I think life is richer, and one we have more control over, if we actually connect to meaning. Some people fear it - which is, quite frankly, where a lot of that negativity I've met has come from! I say, embrace. Get thinking. It's good for you.

 

And thanks for enjoying the interview on facebook (there's more to come). To be honest, I re-read it, and thought, "Oh, Aaron, that comes across rather bad!", but I figured that if you're in the smaller group of people who will bother to join it, then you're in a league where the references to the larger audience my Big Brother work was targeting are not really applicable! I've had so many people, over the past two years, writing in and asking how I got to do what I did, and I was originally going to write an article about it. But it's such a long story, and one that I'm not sure suits being so public, and I never really got around to it. So, I just figured the best way was to have a chat with my friend, record it, and transcribe it. It's much longer, once I started writing it down, than it felt as a chat!! So, it's in a few parts. But by the end, it's fair to say, you know pretty much exactly what went through my head, and how it all came to be. And I'm really looking forward to Unreal, because although it doesn't have the scope that my blogging has, I finally get to show people "what I do". It's a proper, polished piece of work - not my stream-of-consciousness first-draft blogs! And there's always been that irony for me, that, in so many ways, my best work isn't what has finally found an audience! I dealt with that, because I hate coming attached with disclaimers, but it's still there, so I'm looking forward to getting this out there. Hope you enjoy it. 

 

Thanks again,

Aaron