The virtues of blogging?

- Well, here we are Caecum at our new exciting blog where we're expected to blog about the virtues of blogging. A little self-referential self-referencing. A bit like advertising the positive and educational virtues of advertising, aducation, if you like. Think of how much we'll be advancing the philosophical and scientific evolution of humankind through this endeavour.
- Now, don't be like that Appendix. It's not all fun and games and disappearing up your own rectum in the search for coliform bacteria. We have things to share you and I, other than bacteria. And we're surrounded by people who want to know what we have to share.
-There are people in the world who want to read blogs about blogging?
-Yes. Think of all the interesting stuff about blogging that we'll be able to blog about. People will be tripping over themselves to read that stuff.
-What stuff?
-Our stuff!
-You mean this stuff?
-Yes. This stuff.
-Name one.
-Well, there are all the people involved in this little educational endeavour, all the 23 things people.
-They'll want to read this stuff?
-Yes.
-So, given a choice between, say, going to the movies, or maybe, going to the pub on a Sunday afternoon and listening to jazz, or maybe, spending the afternoon on their patio reading a book by their favourite author, or even doing some physical activity, and READING THIS BLOG, these people would choose to stay home, or even go to work, and read this blog?
-Well, I'm not saying that exactly. I mean, not even I'd do that.
-I rest my case.
-So, there are more attractive things than reading this blog. I accept that.
-And more important things.
-And possibly more important things.
-Like almost anything.
-Listen Appendix, we're knowledgeable people. We know stuff. Worthwhile stuff that needs sharing.
-You mean like how to cure every disease that there's ever been in the history of humanity, how to live together as one and love everyone else as though they were part of our own family, how to be smart and think in ways that would make Einstein jealous, how to cure global warming? You mean things like that?
-Not exactly. No, we don't know how to do that. Neither of us do.
-And yet people will still want to read what we have to say? Even though we have nothing to say that will advance humankind in any way? And even though people would be far better off actually going out and learning some actual stuff or actually going out and actually doing some actual stuff? Is that what you're saying?
-Well, I guess I am. It's not all about advancing humankind, is it? You can't go about advancing humanity all the time. Sometimes you have to eat, sleep, commute, go to the toilet, things like that. Hopefully not all at the same time but there are things to do other than advancing the human species. We all have our own lives to lead. Things to do. People to see. Movies to watch. Books to read. Blogs to write. There's other stuff, you know?
-You mean those things we do to fill in all that time we have to fill in, all that time that's leaking away and leading us to our own deaths as inevitably as our own deaths are bearing down upon us?
-That's exactly what I mean. We have time to fill. Plenty of time. You can go off and do your scientific research or think deeply about the nature of being if you want, but you can't do it all the time. Can you? We have to do these other things. Write blogs about blogging and so forth.
-So, blogs are a bit like muzak, are they? They fill in the gaps between things. Those gaps and their accompanying silence that would otherwise insist that we think about the nature of standing around thinking about the nature of gaps?
-That's it! Now you're getting it! Blog away, my friend! Welcome to the new 2.0 world!