I had once, in order to avoid a certain absurdity within the Left wherein being an effective Communist just seems to be reading for more or less your entire life, told a joke to the National Security Agency, believing that they would pass it on the Central Intelligence Agency, whom I suspect to be monitoring me. It was that "writing is a form of personal totalitarianism". I did mean that in jest, but do kind of wonder if there is any veracity to that theory. When you think about it, a person may only write so as to parcel out whatever it is that others find to be disagreeable about their person or to cast a certain aura upon the events in their life, which, as a process, can be a good way to cultivate memory, but also does hazard creating a cult of personality out of oneself. Because society itself has never been terribly agreeable, in the former case, it does seem like a lot of people who have good reason to write, but I do wonder as to whether or not a lot of texts haven't been published out of an odd kind of historical vanity. I'm not saying that that statement is true; I'm just saying that there could be grains of truth to it.