The purpose of a blog

I've never liked blogs.  I suppose I've always been too much of an egotist and too bad of a writer to really get into them.  I've tried a few.  When I was an undergrad I had a Xanga, it was possibly the worst writing in the history of mankind.  My wife found the site a few years after we got married and she still won't let me live it down.  With that said social media has become the time capsule of our generation.  It is where we chronicle our highs and our lows.  Our triumphs and our defeats.  It is the diary of the 21st century, and for better or for worse it is on the web for the entire world to see.

I'm a history teacher, one of my favorite things to do in the classroom is to introduce my students to things that were written in the past.  Napoleon's letters are great, so is anything written by presidents or kings long past.  My favorite though, is a diary by German Jew named Victor Klemperer.  In the book I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years we see Klemperer's diary.  His life under the oppression of the Nazi's.  Klemperer, you see, was a professor who married an Arian woman.  Because of this he was able to avoid the fate of the majority of Jews in Nazi occupied territory.  He describes his life keeping track of every event in order to preserve a record for future generations.  I am, by no means whatsoever, anything close to Victor Klemperer.  I'm an average writer at best with a wonderfully boring life.  My blog though can still be useful, it can still be a record of my life and of this times.  How neat would it be in a hundred to have a researcher site my blog in his thesis on Education:Successes and Failures of the Twenty first Century.  One can dream I suppose.