I am anti-social (and proud of it)

Anti-social, a common label put on people who do not go along with a lot of the bullshit p's and q's of social interaction. I have certainly been labeled anti-social in my life more than a few times. The thing I find is that this issue like others is always framed in the way that the majority is right and healthy while the minority is wrong. A lot of these idiots that use the anti-social label seem to think that most of society is good while there is a small group that just refuses to kind along with the rest. I don't think that's the case at all, rather what I see in the adult world is the same kind of schoolyard bullshit only hidden behind a few more layers of socialization. The same game of domination and submission and the whole know your place in the pecking order that goes along with that. Now in my view, that is what is really anti-social, but for most, that is just reality and people that don't like it just need to grow up.

Well, I say fuck that. Furthermore, if saying that and having that attitude makes me anti-social than as the title of this post  says, I am more than proud to wear that label. The reason for this is that if society must be that way than I also say fuck society. For one thing, there are few people in this world that I feel close to and if I could be in a world without people and maintain the same level of development and civilizations (perhaps via advanced robot technology) than I would take such an option if it was actually available. As a little aside here, maybe my anti-social nature is what makes me feel drawn to cats which I am by the way, that explains the  picture associated with my username. 

Honesty

One of the things I have been pondering lately is the subject of honesty and how its opposite, dishonesty, is really harmful to the individual in the end just as much as it is harmful to the people that person deceives. This post will be a break from my (so far) usual bucket of hate that I spew forth through my keyboard and instead will provide what I think might be some practical advice to people based on knowledge gained from my own experience.

My Revised View of "The Pragmatic Libertarian" Podcast

Well it has been a little while now since I last updated this blog, but as work has been rather overwhelming in the last two weeks ( a blog post on that is probably in the works) I have not had the emotional energy to write a blog post ( it does take a lot of energy to write for me, maybe that's why I had trouble in school). To get to my main point though, I had in a past post done a review by of a podcast called "The Pragmatic Libertarian" by someone named Shawn, who goes by the username Xomniverse. Initially when I wrote that, I gave a mixed review noting that while I found many of his ideas intersting, I had some misgivings about other things he had said. After having listned to more episodes of his podcast and watching many of his videos on youtube, I have revised my opinion to a large extent. I now think very highly of him and find his ideas to be challenging and refreshing as they provide a much needed anecdote to some of the more simplistic cliched approaches to libertarianism that are out there. I would now just like to reccomend his podcast to any readers here that are interested in libertarianism and philosophy and politics as I think you will find much of value in his work. I will now be linking his podcast on the sidebar of my blog.

On The Casey Anthony Verdict: My Brief Thoughts

Well, I have returned again to another round of my blog. The next blog post I had planned was to be somewhat of a semi follow-up to the riot post, but because this story came out and I figure I will do current news from time to time, I figure that I will comment briefly on this story.

As most of you may know, Casey Anthony, the Florida woman accused of killing her child, Caylee, was found not guilty last Tuesday of that charge. I'm not going to get into the details of it, I think most people reading here are probably aware, but here is  a link to a CNN story and video about the verdict.

Now predictably, there have been strong reactions to this story, with many members of the public expressing outrage. In the media, one of the harshest critics of this verdict has been TV show host and former prosecutor, Nancy Grace, who, in my opinion, would be top runner for the award of world’s biggest cunt. Here is a little interview  with Ms. Grace about the verdict. Incidentally, if you want more stories and videos about this, go to cnn.com. 

Blogs and Attention Seeking

Well, it looks as if my last post did not garner the negative attention that I hoped it would. perhaps if I had linked that post below the comments of another blog post dealing with the same issues, I would have been able to attract the hate comments that I was sort of hoping for.


Anyhow, that lead me to thinking about the pros and cons of having one's blog be widely read vs. having very little readership. Having looked at the counter below my article, it's clear that I have not been the only person on my blog and I also have a few comments as well.


Now it's certainly true that for many people, things like blogs, youtube channels, and other assorted things are ways for people to satisfy the human drive for ego gratification (I think that's what I meant to say) which I don't think there's anything wrong with doing. As for myself, I have until recently been a passive observer on the Internet, never actually participating until less than a year ago. The reason I started blogging was that someone in comments section recommended that to me, I had never really given it much thought before. For one thing, I have always been a private person (the reason for my reluctance in online participation period) and my written communication is drastically inferior to my verbal communication, nevertheless, having gotten into blogging, I have come to rather enjoy it, messing around with the design and linking to things, it's all pretty fun. I also feel that as my writing is something that I want to improve upon, it makes sense to practice it and what better way of practicing it than by throwing out random piles of words for all the world to see. So I guess that this blog is as much for my benefit, regardless of how many people read it, as it is for any other purpose. Now as my main problem with writing is the ability to get stuff out on paper (or computer screen) in the first place, I figure that the way to improve my skills as to get as much material out there as I can. Thus, from now on when I write posts, my main focus will be on churning out material, and I won't be as picky about grammar and other stuff as I have been in the past, after all, this is not a school paper. I still will correct spelling mistakes and obvious errors, but other than that, so please no comments about subject-verb agreement or any other crap like that.


To return to what I was talking about at the beginning, I think there may very well be advantages in having a relatively unknown blog. The first advantage I can think of is that you can say more controversial things without having to deal with a barrage of angry comments or complaints from a host of whiners who troll the Internet. I wonder if I get even get away with some illicit stuff for awhile, maybe I should devote whole posts to slandering and/or libeling people and see if someone ever picks up on it. As an aside, I oppose such laws and would not take any action against someone who did that to me so if you ever feel the need to make up crazy stuff about someone, I am fair game. I also wonder how along it would take for a blog like mine cloaked in obscurity to be reported by some nanny if I were to post a bunch of porn images on it, not that I would do that. I've also thought about the possibility of posting stupid and absurd stuff for my own amusement, just to liven up the blog a bit. Anyhow, that's all I can think at the moment so I guess I'm signing off here. The font used here is Helvetica, by the way.