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This blog has turned twenty. A decade ago I considered the changes it had undergone in half that timeframe. Since then I have stuck with the standard of one entry a month that it had settled into. However, I think the word count has reduced somewhat over this past decade. Furthermore, I'm more likely now to reuse old content that has simply sat offline in some archival form.

These changes could partly result from the slow march of time taking energy from me. I also feel as if it has something to do with present life conditions. I was at my most creative while my life itself was more lively. Most of what I make is rather pedestrian but now-and-then I feel I do something better that deserves a continuing platform here. And I still have the impetus in me for more blogging - how difficult can writing something recreationally once a month possibly be?

There is plenty of subject matter to choose from but I wonder whether the Blogger 'labels' or tags I attach to each post confuse that somewhat. What is the difference between a life experience and nostalgia for instance? Something I have just experienced will soon become one of many past recollections. But more often my nostalgic posts enthuse over retro popular culture content or artifacts rather than anything happening with me. Possibly that is how to distinguish those two tags.

Then there are the philosphical and political tags. The former allows for musings of a more personal kind while the latter focuses on substantive political debates. But naturally they will overlap as political problems have philosophical solutions. I have long been wedded to my fasciniation for distinct if interconnected ideological positions. But in the last decade I have explored those aspects of politics that transcend ideology. This self-directed study was prompted by changing times and the effect I realized meta-ideology has on society. But you cannot be cerebral all the time.

Sometimes I have mused on matters of music or shared the odd recipe - that one needs revisiting now we are coming into summertime. Other times I have expressed some whimsical half-baked concept of mine. There will always be more of those - I get plenty of them just walking or riding public transport.

If I want to do longer posts but lack the energy for a proper essay then there is always the option of annotated lists. I have been turning to that method more and more. I could also accept that short items are okay - tiny anecdotes involving something I have seen or heard could become the most evocative for future me.

A note of caution creeps into all this. In an era of privacy-pillaging artificial intelligence, how much of my text or images do I want to share? I once assumed that personal obscurity and careful phrasing were sufficient defence in a crowded online world. But is it? Apparently this website lets me set the entire blog to 'custom readers' only. I wonder if that is a worthwhile thing to do in the third decade of Lazy Luddite Log.