Bix dot Blog

Rebecca Toh’s latest newsletter is both not wrong and only makes me feel more at sea. I don’t feel that anything I do is “important work”, even when we expand the definition to incorporate the very small. I don’t, in point of fact, actually do anything. Even here, these posts exist mostly because of a quasi-mechanistic “need” to be blogging again; most of the time my blogging just depresses me more because it doesn’t say anything new or unique, and it’s difficult for me not to compare it to the days when my blogging was exactly and precisely new and unique. The reality is that much like Earth is “mostly harmless” I am “mostly irrelevant”. My abilities and capacities at this stage of my life are even irrelevant to self-sufficiency—I am effectively both mostly irrelevant and fundamentally of no use.