Scary quote about blogging(?!)

Couldn't resist posting this (rather lengthy) quote from Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Just substitute 'book' for 'blog' and you'll see what I mean about the scary bit... A person who writes books is either all (a single universe for himself and everyone else) or nothing. And since all will never be given to anyone, every one of us who writes books is nothing. Ignored, jealous, deeply wounded, we wish the death of our fellow man, In that respect we are all alike: Banaka, Bibi, Goethe, and I. The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of "We are all writers!" The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. And that was written in 1978! Of course, with blogs people are also interacting. But as, for example, the 'left' vs. 'right' debates in the American political blogosphere go to show - this isn't necessarily fostering any sense of greater understanding.