When I tell people about my work, their first question is: "What's the website about?" I will endeavor to answer that question for you today.
This website is not about nothing. This isn't Seinfeld.
This website is not about everything. This isn't Wikipedia.
This website is about something in between. It's just right.
Timothy Leary looked at the burgeoning internet and posited that a new realm of human consciousness could be opened by a new ability to live virtually. Then again, he ate weed food all day and dropped too much acid. But, do we not see a second life, a virtual life, in our relationship to the internet? Is it our "real selves" that populate social networking sites? Are we any more educated by surfing the tide of the news that the internet provides; or, any more entertained by the equal tide of television, videos, and viral memes? What would you say is the quality of your virtual life?
This site doesn't propose to stand athwart history yelling "Stop!", as William F. Buckley Jr proposed as the mission of The National Review. There simply is no "history" there. In fact, no monolithic abstraction is there steaming to plod over us, enslave us, or liberate us. We are not to be raised or destroyed by anything except our own labors. Perhaps this is why The Roomba Mifi so concerns himself with the nature of Enthusiasm. Buckley thought there was "solid reason for rejoicing" at the launching of his efforts, but admitted "that the joy is not unconfined." Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for this site, each moved by some measure of enthusiasm for something worth repeating whether it be a video, a book, a manifesto, or an idea. In this, I can assure you that our enthusiasm is most certainly unconfined.
This website is about nothing more than an attempt to enter your virtual life and relate something worth repeating.
Sincerely,
Patrick Benton
Editor
SomethingWorthRepeating.com
