Sunday, March 16, 2014

First post of an Introductory blog of an Anonymous Blogger blogger

Hello, you out there in Internet Land,

I am an anonymous Blogger.com blogger who refuses to share his identity. Because after all, it doesn't really matter who I am, or who you readers are. The internet doesn't exist because we want to know who every single person who uses it is called. In the grand scheme of things, names don't get remembered a whole lot. They don't tend to really matter unless they carry some weight. Even some of the most important people in the world are known by their deeds before their names. Pope Francis isn't really Pope Francis's name but we know who he is because of his good deeds out in the world. Sure, he has a real name that people can go look up, but he is known first because he is the Pope.

So, you see, names don't matter really. What matters is what we do and say. We leave a footprint so others can see where we've been, what we've done, what we said. Names can be forgotten, tossed to the wind like a plastic bag. Deeds transcend the necessity of names in the real world. They are just titles used to identify a thing, with no consideration as to what that thing did.

This entire two-paragraph introduction reflects a line from the movie The Dark Knight, where Batman tells Rachel Dawson, "It's not who I am, but what I do, that defines me."

I believe that he's right.