"Tomorrow Is Another Day"

 I have been extremely busy in the past month, and so strapped for time that I have often failed to keep up with my daily blog. Part of the reason is that taking a course in Poststructural research "unsettles" the whole project of writing a daily blog. It has the effect of forcing me to think about this blog as a construction but also as a kind of contrivance: I am playing a part when writing this blog that is very specifically inscribed in other social processes. For example, the idea that writing daily is a good thing (much like eating a healthy diet, for example, or running) is not something I just made up in my head, but it came rather from a historical premise: the idea that writing daily is an honest rendering of things that "actually" happen or that "actually" represent "real" people. In fact, that edifice starts to look weak when I explore it alongside Poststructural leanings.
   Now, my original topic for tonight's blog was going to be "Tomorrow Is Another Day", and I am sure it would have combined some Buddhist learning and stoicism to provide "me" with some fruitful self-edification. But now more and more I tend to think that the process of writing itself is a discursive act that goes even farther than the boundaries of the topic itself. For example  it invisibly reinforces privilege (the ability to comfortably write from a safe vantage point without the threat of discrimination or obstracism); authority (the claim to "know" that I will be okay tomorrow, even if I don't actually know that this is going to be the case); power (the ability to put words together creating a life world which I can safely inhabit for said reasons above), and so on. The fact that daily writing "makes" a writer...and the importance accorded to being a writer (the power, status, privilege, recognition, etc.) ...all of these things define the act and rationale for writing, because they are part of the manufacture of a cosmopolitan intellectual: a kind of hybrid figure who is neither university trained professor nor bachelor student, neither "published" to a wide audience (or in a recognized publishing house) nor "unpublished" (hence, you are reading this blog)
     Deconstructing texts actually forces me to consider: are the themes I choose to write about really self-evident truths, or are they specifically curated with a particular subject in mind? The "persevering", "survivalist" subject of "Tomorrow Is Another Day", is this not the response to an ideology of survivalism/resilience and macho bravado that characterizes a lot of Western existentialist thinkers? I leave it at that to ponder...