The Value of Decay: My Old Blog.
The Broken Gentleman, my old website, has been completely static for the last month, other than updating links, and a few visits to older content. Every month, I get my google analytics email, and recognize that, until recently, it was a living thing.
It’s gone from a place of thought and action to something of a mausoleum, keeping a safe home for the ideas that will never go anywhere, the ones that are in stasis, and the lucky few that became something. Watching traffic diminish is oddly inspiring, it’s a reminder that the life of the thing was entirely my effort and ideas.
Watching things decay isn’t normally considered a motivation, and I’m certain this is a mistake. Decay inspires fear. Fear inspires action. Put in a crassly commercial context, people buy clothing to look good, but they also buy clothing due to fear of looking bad.
Worth pondering: the motivational value of showing people decay.
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