Alcohol and a willing audience

It's just occurred to me that (probably) the main purpose of alcohol is to make it possible to create an audience when you want to say something but there's nobody willing to listen. "No, no, no, listen, no, listen ... I love you ... listen ..." - I'm sure you get the picture. Anyway, that means that alcohol was invented a long time before the net - and specifically before blogging software.

Of course, nobody *is* "listening", but if you choose to be suitably deluded, then you can kid yourself that somebody is and therefore feel entitled to express yourself.

I'm just thinking that the person who first suggested that the first sign of madness was talking to yourself was a mean sod with little to say. Just imagine the world with people contenting themselves with chatting to themselves instead of blogging, tweeting, facebooking or whatever else they're actually doing.

Anyway ...