It sounds like a philosophical statement; maybe a Zen saying*. There are no followers. What does that mean? Where is the front? Could you be a leader, but in the middle? "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader." Google Book Search shows that attributed to French revolutionary Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, according to Respectfully Quoted by Suzy Platt, of the Library of Congress. (One website attributed it to Gandhi, which shows why the internet cannot be trusted. Trust me.)
So I have no followers, yet I write. Do I care? Well, yeah. But I also make pictures with no particular outlet or viewer either. I have about seven rolls of film in the darkroom, waiting for processing. (And that's film -- remember that? -- not the easily run off digital.) In a way, that's also a purpose of this blog: to find an outlet for all that stuff. But what if an outlet is not an inlet?
I think the tree falling in the forest makes noise. It may even make a lovely noise ... or at least an interesting one. Does it matter that no one hears?
*Koan. Damn, that's the word I was looking for. Koan.
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