Washing the Brain

A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to an interview with Doris Lessing on Radio 4, about her Nobel Prize. She was deliciously dismissive of the whole thing (unsurprising when you hear the background), and then somehow the subject of blogging arose. When asked, Ms Lessing conceded that she didn’t know too much about it [blogging], but that she thought it must be like ‘washing the brain’. Is that what I’m doing? And if it is, is it really such a bad thing?