The Philosophy of Bolging
The bolg has inspired many reactions during it's short time in existence. Chiefly a yawn or a dumbfounded "don't you guys have anything better to do?" But many are fascinated by the fact that somewhere between 2 to 6 people have been motivated to give, with dubious regularlity, detailed accounts of their evenings for almost no reason that are then read by an astoundingly small audience.
The amount of effort (as time is the scarcest resource of all) that is put into bolging implies that there is something greater than the bolg itself which is contained within the activity of bolging. This begs the question what motivates the bolger?
It is my proposition that bolging is representive of minimalism (the movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression. ) or deconstructionism (which finds concrete experience more valid than abstract ideas and, therefore, refutes any attempts to produce a history, or a truth. In other words, the multiplicities and contingencies of human experience necessarily bring knowledge down to the local and specific level, and challenge the tendency to centralize power through the claims of an ultimate truth which must be accepted or obeyed by all.).
In conclusion I would like to point out that his post is an extreme violation of the bolging spirit.

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