B-Log

Reading Dickinson in the Bare All Age A major point of debate at present among the trend watchers is the rising tendency to bare it all. The long existed fencing which respected the division between private and the public has been punched into a sieve. A sieve which permits uninhibited flow two ways. The flow has unproblematised the two categories which we have always attempted to keep apart: the private and the public. With the advent of the so christened social media, the life inside had begun to take a beating. With a decade of social media behind us, the beating it took has totally deshaped the private space. With result that not only has the private shrunk to the real inside of the mind, with the physical and lived part of the life has become public. When the expansionist agenda of the public pushes mercilessly forward, aided by the unashamedly openness seeking social media, the outcome can't be otherwise.  It hardly matters what Emily Dickinson thought. Keeping asi