Tokyo has had some pretty bad sh*t happen
to it before yet we're still here.
Someday, when I grow up, and am fully able to suppress my inner child, I want to completely say and write what I want.
The music example above is a good one, I think. The best music comes from people who have a message they want to say to the world and don't care if it sells or not. If it does sell, great. If it doesn't, well, that's too bad.
The best musicians are not going to change their music to Top 40 style just to get fans. Although, unfortunately, this happens far too often and that's why Pop music sucks so much.
Of course, like selling many CDs or downloads, for bloggers it is also gratifying to get lots of readers.
2012 is supposed to be the end of the world.
Hope you have your bags packed.
When a musician sells out and gives up on his music for sales, then he "sells out" as the term goes. Selling out is a sort of lie. It is not telling the truth and it is doing something purely for money (though I cannot slag off anyone who wants to make money).
Like being truthful to your music, writing the truth on a blog is not a good way to make "sales." What I mean by that is it is not a good way to garner many readers.
Sensationalism sells.
Just look at the news rack at your favorite grocery store upon checkout next time; Gossip and rumor magazines galore. Gossip and rumor and innuendo sell. They are all a form of sensationalism.
If you want many readers, then writing sensationalism sells. You needn't believe me. Just look at all the media. Sensationalism sells and that is a fact of life.
Newspapers, TV, magazines and the Internet do not sell well when they write boring stuff, like the truth. They need sensationalism to garner readers.
I don't know about you but I don't want the kind of readers who enjoy gossip tabloid publications. I probably couldn't can't get them anyway. I want to write the truth on this blog. That's also why there are no advertisements on this blog either.
Telling the truth is not as good as sensationalism to get readers. Sensationalist nonsense makes waves. Just look at the recent remarks from Keith Harmon Snow, Arnie Gundersen and Michio Kaku.
These guys make outrageous unfounded claims. People actually listen to them and print up their absurd remarks.
Sensationalism sells.
I blast these clowns out of the water whenever I can. If I wrote more wild nonsense about Fukushima and how people in Japan were being born with extra limbs or animals were deformed or birds were dropping from the skies and joined in with the scare-tactics of the sensationalist crowds, I'd probably have a large increase in readers everyday.
But, as it is, I don't. I want to write the truth and expose the charlatans as best I can. Writing the truth and telling people that no one has died from Fukushima or that rabbits are probably not being born deformed, or that deadly radiation is most probably not being secretly bombed on the Tokyo populace, or that 1/3 of Japan is most likely not to be evacuated and will be quite inhabitable for the next few hundred years at least, thank you, is not exciting stuff.
If I can, I just want to get the truth out. What I write is not exciting. So my blog readership, as with all truthful blogs on Japan, has declined.
The truth doesn't attract so many readers. The truth can be quite boring. Boring will cause a drop in readership. Continued drops in readership may kill off the motivation of a blogger. No motivation, no blog posts. No blog posts, no blog.
Doing something that kills you could be suicidal.
That is what a suicide blogger is.
So, make a choice; are you true to yourself and your "music" or do you want to sell out?
3 comments:
You should go to north korea. no evil western media there.
What a fool anonymous above is. Don't you know that all media everywhere is a sock puppet for those in power? Get into the real world.
Nice try at sensationalism, Mike, but even the nice Japan Times has you beat in that arena: Can you cannot resist clicking on this headline? "Inside Japan's Suicide Forest".
You will learn so much which you would never have thought of by yourself, such as this gem, surely worth the 200-yen Japan Times price-tag, eh?
"It's not just regular depression, but also clinical depression due to the stress caused by the reality of their circumstances," he said. "Depression is a huge risk factor when it comes to suicide."
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