Grandinite

THIS blog post may have changed my life.

It’s a great little primer on the Id and the Ego and how the masses crave authority. We have an innate desire to submit to authority because it absolves us of responsibility, particularly thinking for ourselves.

The superego is the opposite of the id. When you feel compelled by success and ambition, the superego is exerting its influence. The ego is the moderator between the id and superego. It tries to balance the two and is perpetually torn between extremes. Authority forms a bridge between the superego and the id, allowing the ego take a vacation. When you submit to authority, the superego is happy because it believes you are doing the right thing, the id is happy because your childish craving for a father is satisfied, and the ego is thrilled because for once there is peace.

This, my friends, is a clue in my quest for global domination, and will prove useful in my stated goal of being invited to a Bilderberg meeting so I can drink scotch, play golf and talk politics with the who’s who of the transatlantic elite. Well, perhaps not.

I think this is the crux of blogging, and it relates to a little something called The Digg Effect. The goal of many bloggers is to get their blog listed at Digg.com in the hopes of reaching the top of the voting pile. The resulting traffic can get you tons of new readers, which can translate into new RSS subscribers, and perhaps even some ad revenue.

One way of doing that would be to create ordered, structured “How To” lists. Heck, even I rocketed to fame when I constructed my List of Canada’s 40 Most Annoying Canadians.

Why do blog readers put so much faith in lists? I don’t know, but here’s a list of reasons why blog readers love lists LINK