While setting up a blog for a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., it finally dawned on me that “Hey, I could be doing this for myself, too!”
However, unlike the American frontier of the 1800’s, it seems that the virtual frontier (taken from the subtitle of a FRONTLINE special, Digital_Nation: Life on the virtual frontier) is not that far from the frenzy of “the madding crowd.”
In fact, it’s all around. 24/7 stimulation. Of course, how different is that from all-night cable shows and radio stations that you could watch or listen to or even call in to?
I’m not sure. What is all of this doing to us? To our minds? What’s happened to introspection? To contemplation? Can we even think anymore? Or do we just react?
Where did all the peace and quiet go?! (And how did I, a simple country boy, end up here?)
I Wish I Were Far From the Madding Crowd 
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