OK, now that I've got your attention, it's time to
get down to business. This blog post is mostly going to be about what I will be
up to on this blog in the coming months. First of all, it has been a long time
since I've been on this blog, and for that matter, looked at any of this
google account including the email (that's
directed to you MRDA if you are reading this). Mainly the reason I have not
been on this blog is because of work, which because of its nature makes it
harder to do what is already extremely difficult for me to do in the first
place, which would be writing in this case. In some cases, it took me over a
few hours to finish a blog post that was merely a few paragraphs. As a little
aside here, I can't stand those right wing libertarians and objectivists (not
all of them do this) who worship work and extol it's praises all day along.
Obviously, some work can be very rewarding, but I think it's fair to say that a
lot of it is just mindless bullshit. It's also a little odd that some of these
types will eagerly point out how work is a form of social control to keep
people in line (making the assumption that people need to be kept in line)
while at the same time rejecting the authoritarian state to keep people in
line.
Anyways, getting back to my point, the reason I am
returning to this work now is that I think it serves a purpose for me, which is
to help me be less self-conscious an d to practice writing. Now, in the past I
had written some private journal type entries, but I think a blog online
publicly visible is a better tool for overcoming one's anxieties in this area
because it is public and there exists the possibility of being criticized, made
fun of, etc. Now, of course you can block everyone from doing this on your own
site, but I am not going to do this. If someone wants to comment here and be an
idiot, I'm going to let em. My reason is that I think it's important to not be
overtaken by others assessments and to build up my own confidence by facing the
possibility of being criticized, mocked, etc. In some respects I think this is
odd for me to have to do this because it seems to me (and I could be wrong
here) that in many respects, I am less prone to groupthink than others who I
have encountered throughout my life (one of the reasons I never understood the
whole peer pressure motivation for having sex, doing drugs in my teens) but it
seems that here I have an issue with being self-conscious.
Anyhow, I think that what I am going to try to do
here from now on is concentrate on getting as much output as possible without
worrying about the technical aspects or how it sounds etc. Just a fair warning,
from now on there could be more grammar errors and even possibly spelling
errors (I will still use basic spellcheck though) and some of what I write
might be incoherent and not make sense at all though that might have always
been the case. I think I would liken my new method for writing posts to the
kind of drawing (don't recall if there's a name for it) where you draw
something on paper without removing the pen or whatever from the paper.
As this blog is for my benefit primarily, I think that this type of writing
would be the one best suited to my needs at the moment. However, I am not
opposed to feedback of any kind, especially negative feedback for that
matter.
Now with that out of the way, I want to give a
little info on some of the upcoming posts that I am going to be hopefully
getting around to. In the next little while I am planning to finish and revise
some posts I had started that were responses to articles from awhile back, like
last year awhile back. Then I plan to get in to some subjects that I had been
planning to blog on for some time and as well perhaps blogging on some recent
news stories if I come across any that peek my interest. As I'm relearning how
to use this blogger software to some extent, it may be that this process is
somewhat uneven so things might be slower than hoped for. Ideally though, I
would like to get in 1-2 blog posts per weeks, maybe 3 if were talking short
length posts here.
Well that's all for now so stay tuned if
interested.
Glad to see you back.
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