I think I'm going to start stepping up the volume of stuff I post on this blog. For a couple of years now, I have posting most of my verbose musings on various discussion boards and link sharing sites under various pseudonyms. I'm trying to swear off of my addiction to those places right now, though... (it's funny how for a person like me, information on the internet itself is an addictive thing!). I do find, however, that I have a continuing need to write as a way to sort out ideas in my mind. Inductive reasoning is my favorite hobby. So I will be posting these things on this lonely website instead. I don't see much point in it really, because no one ever reads this website (at this point it's like one or two people a day coming through and browsing). But, maybe the website can impress future employers or future landlords or such people. Who knows.

Ok, I think I'm going to lose some of my timidity here, and begin to lay out my heart and the details of lots of models which I have put together over the years about things. I realize that most USAer folks who read my words will misconstrue them. Because the premises behind many of my models is so far outside the box, they won't know how to make heads or tails of what I'm saying. However, this blog is not really written for a general audience anyway, and the real people I'm trying to reach here with my words are the folks who have put some time previously into looking at the world around them and pondering it - dispensing with preconceptions, and looking at things with a fresh perspective.

One of the writers on the internet who I admire quite a bit is Dave Pollard. I actually don't read him often... and I think that he gets too much into the gritty details when writing about issues... and that he might not be targeting the needs of his readers as well as he could. But then, what thinker/essayist always does?

I really admire his vision of making an umbrella project where he seeks to cater to many different needs and interests which his readers would have.

In my estimation - nurture should be a prime directive for every one of us. We ought to do what we can to help those around us who are younger, and in need of guidance, direction, mentorship, or whatever.

I've been seeking to do this for several years at different discussion boards, but it doesn't always work. On larger boards it's sometimes impossible to turn around a zeitgeist from the chaos that reigns when people all want to interject their complaint and invective.

There's only so much you can do with a one-way medium like I have here at this website. I am almost ready to go live with a discussion forum I've created. That'll be nice, and there will be a link to it at the top of this page.

But I want to see what kind of cool thing I can build at this website under my name, as well. Maybe, for awhile, I'll copy Dave's example - in my own way.

Everybody should have the the right to choose what is published, and what is not published about their own ideas, and their own personal life. My brother, who is a landlord, was recently telling me about how he always googles the folks applying to live in the apartments he rents out. And quite often, such folks have posted something odd about themselves on their myspace account. And he disqualifies them.

Particularly, it's sobering for a deep thinking individual to start publishing under her or his own name. To delve into deep and critical thought about issues in the world around us, means you have to appraise things fairly; and in the usa... people are accustomed to not appraising things even handedly.

Folks here, have a habit of looking for what appears to be the consensus about an issue. They line up their beliefs with the paradigm, which seems to be commonly held.

Intellectuals are far worse. In the usa, these folks indulge in rancor, and bitter dialogue back and forth with eachother. They call it "debate" and they consider it a good sport.

A person who thinks logically and independently will often come to conclusions which are very different than the things his society subscribes to at the moment. If he's not being careful about how he presents his ideas, he will write in a philosophical style... and a casual reader will have a hard time wading through text. The writer makes strong assertions on the basis of novel premises, which are not familiar to the reader.

But whether a person is clear, or obfuscates his ideas behind eloquent turns of language... new ideas will often be scorned in the usa.

I have deep thinking friends... and I've watched the ridicule games play out around them.

So, it is with much hesitation that I stand on edge of this turret, and prepare to spread my wings, eyeing the horizon (by the way - this picture is a photo of my avatar in the virtual world of SecondLife - a video game in which people can fly).

However, there comes a time when one must make one's debut upon the world. I have published reams of essays under anonymous names in various internet forums over the past several years. I'm not sure if it's ethical to throw good ideas to the wind like that... but now I have a place where I can pen them, and publish them under my own name.