Something curious is happening on this blog. All of a sudden I’m getting a surge for something I posted way back in February headlined The Curs(e) of the Dog Fighting Competition. Unspun‘s WordPress diagnostics tell him that people have been arriving at this blog via word serches for “dog”, “dog images” , “dog pictures”.
I’m puzzld by this surge of interest. Why are people going to that posting? If you’re one of those, wold appreciate a comment on this posting on how come you clicked there would go toward satisfying Unspun’s curiousity. It’s like an itch on my back that needs to be scratched and only you can do it (or you could be really mean and refuse to scratch it and watch me squirm. Owwww)
i clicked out of a morbid interest in cruelty, and out of sympathy for the dog. i think it’s not far off from the impulse to approach a wounded animal in the world. i think more than we realize our responses to links are grafted from our real-world impulses.