I earlier wrote an idea that there can even be compensation for people to record their opinions so that those may be available for analysis for government, hopefully for a better one than we have now.   This would provide the discourse analysts a richer repository to study to find context and settings for other discourses.   It would also make their job much more difficult.   Context and setting are easier to construct when you have very little information about either.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/14/discourse-analysis-of-a-diary-or-blog/