A brilliant film I just happened to watch this weekend, Being There (1979), Jack Warden's character says, "Life is a state of mind". This alludes to the idea that we see what we want to see, and the movie explores America's concept of reality in media and politics. This is a commentary on America in the form of satire. Peter Sellers plays the lead character, Chance, who has lived an isolated existence as a gardener that is dependent on his employer. He appears to be without any intelligence except for his knowledge on gardening and watching television. When his employer dies, he follows a series of mishaps upon entering the real world and being unaccustomed to its social norms. He accidentally, by chance, is mistaken for having refreshing wisdom on financial matters and becomes a media sensation. This is what we have see happen in American culture with the rise of the celebrity, some even found on Instagram or YouTube. I wonder if Lord Byron ever considered just how much celebrities would influence society. This all being said to come a long way to my point of the blogging revolution of how we have become our own voices of reality and subsequently journalists. Blogging can have many faces for professional and personal purposes because not all employers want to know your true thoughts/feelings on everything and vice versa. Luckily there is a way to shield your personal world from your public by adopting separate blogs for the two worlds. Blogging can be a highly beneficial tool for archiving personal knowledge and interests that might draw the attention of other bloggers who are like-minded or enlightened. This platform can serve as a display of your talents to build a wider network that could also help professionally. The different mediums that you can attach to a blog aid in making your ideas come to life that provide a different engagement than the regular news track. Blogging, therefore, is your state of mind.
This is the trailer for Being There (1979):
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