@wales, nothing wrong with writing for yourself. You have to have an audience or it isn't worth it. The self is a worthy audience. I found this paragraph pure gold:

Many were lost in the wars, in their sex and religion, in front of TVs, and the institutions they fitted into that ate them and left so little behind to talk to it was hardly worth the bother.

There's something very Catcher-in-the-Rye-ish about that.