The Illusion of an Oversaturated Blog World

Maybe you've felt it too: that heavy feeling that every idea, every passion, and every half-formed thought is already circling somewhere in the blogosphere. Why add another voice to the crowd in an already oversaturated blog world?

Maybe it's all an illusion

But then—it happens. You come across a post about something you didn’t even know you were curious about. It wasn’t trending. It wasn’t shouted in your ear. It was quiet. And it made you think.

I had one of those moments not long ago. I wasn't searching for it. It simply appeared—and suddenly, my mind was curling around ideas I hadn’t even named yet. That’s when I realised: the notion of “too much” might just be that—only a notion.

What matters isn’t the flood of words; it's the single drop that finds you at the right time.

That experience made me wonder if “oversaturation” is really just an illusion. From a distance, the internet is overwhelming, yes—but for the individual reader, it isn’t about the volume of voices. It’s about the one voice they happen to hear at the right time.

Philosophy in an oversaturated blog world

Philosophy reminds us of this: truth is not always found in the loudest crowd, but often in the quiet insight that reaches us personally.

The philosopher Iris Murdoch believed,

The essence of the good life is to see things as they truly are. 

In the same way, perhaps the essence of writing is to accept that our words don’t need to reach everyone—they only need to meet the right reader at the right moment.

Australian Voices in Philosophy

I take comfort in knowing that some of the world’s most thoughtful writing in philosophy is quietly nurtured here in Australia.

• Aeon publishes essays that are as close as the internet gets to philosophy in public life. A recent piece reflected on the paradox of attention in the digital world:

We mistake information for wisdom, forgetting that wisdom requires stillness.

That struck me as exactly what I felt while reading that hidden-gem blog—sometimes wisdom sneaks in when we aren’t seeking it.

• New Philosopher creates whole issues around timeless questions—happiness, freedom, truth. Their style shows how philosophy can belong not only to academics but to anyone willing to pause and reflect.

  
  

• Seed of Virtue, a smaller Australian blog, writes about applying Stoic thought to everyday life. One post simply said:

“Life is long if you know how to use it” 

Simple, but it stayed with me.

• And even in Indigenous Australian philosophy, which often intertwines land, time, and spirit, there is a lesson: that knowledge is relational, not a competition. A reminder that writing online, too, isn’t about who says it first, but how it connects.

There are many paths in the craft of writing online...

Medium Philosophers I Keep Returning To

Since I’m a Medium member, I’ve also been inspired by personal, philosophy-leaning writers there:

• Philosophy Writer— Explores life's big questions and timeless ideas through the lens of philosophy. Essays that dig into ethics, metaphysics, and what it means to be human—always in a personal voice.

Why I Write, and Why I Keep Going

I’m not an oracle. I don’t chase viral hits or chase every trend. Instead, I write because maybe, just maybe, someone will stumble in here and find the one line that lingers.

I think blogs can serve as small interventions—brief pauses, sparks of curiosity, and quiet companions in a distracted world, where the overwhelming abundance of words and the illusion of an oversaturated blog world might be just that. An illusion.

Hidden gems are rare not because they don’t exist, but because they wait patiently to be found—by the right reader, at the right time.

If you're reading this now, perhaps this is your moment. And that makes all the difference.

Namaste`

Deb xx

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