Writing a blog

Many people and I am sure you are amongst them, have fairly fixed views on a number of subjects.  Opinion and the understanding of how we feel about a certain issue is of course bound up in upbringing and how we traversed the cliff between youth, when we are at our most narcissistic and maturity when we should be able to call on a lifetime of experience to see the other persons position. Of course as we get older we find that we miss the surety of youth and become confused by the wealth of diversity we have to cope with each week. The talent people have for crystallising their pet project, religion, socialising, sport or exercise, shopping or saving the planet, they are committed often to the exclusion of much else. The diversity of race, the standpoint gender brings to most subjects, the experts and the statisticians all colouring every issue, make for rich pickings if you enjoy writing a blog.
Writing a blog has the calming effect of blowing off hot air or applauding a point of view, behind the safety of ones keyboard in the silence of ones own mind. The exercise of thinking about a whole raft of things going on in the world around, of having an opinion and not having to risk that opinion with the raw contempt of the expert.