On Andrew Sullivans "Why I blog"

After having read Andrew Sullivan’s “Why I Blog” I feel Sullivan’s main reason as to why he blogs is because he finds it authentic and honest. He says that blogging is “A conversation, rather than a production.” It is the true integrity of conversation that he finds important and enjoyable in blogging. He has a connection with his readers that’s more personal than a manufactured piece of work. He essentially creates personal relationships with people through his writing and the personality of blogging itself. Sullivan understands this and so he is honest with his words. He also says “You end up writing about yourself, since you are a relatively fixed point in this constant interaction with the ideas and facts of the exterior world.” Again, it’s the authenticity of it all. It’s the elimination of exterior variables that allows for an introspective form of activity that gives one a sense of belonging in the busy and crowded world around us. Sullivan and other bloggers reflect on the world from their perspectives. It allows them to be entirely honest with themselves, something everyone should be able to do. After all its honesty that creates passion. Bruce Lee described this form of authenticity as “honest self-expression” and Maslow regarded it as the top level of his hierarchal system. I believe Sullivan understands this as the root for his passion and it is the main reason as to “Why he blogs.”