Monday, 27 October 2008
Side bar
I've added a few links. These are the blogs I read most frequently. By looking at them you can probably see pretty much how and what I think. I'll add more as I remember.
New blog
I've never written a blog before. I've read them, but apart from a couple of guest posts and the very occasional comment I've always been a silent lurker reading and either nodding in agreement as the disembodied writing of a person far away makes sense or frowning as some point ridiculous or juvenile is made.
I hope to rectify that, I hope I can write and express my views; unoriginal as they may be, not so much for those reading, I doubt I will get anything like a regular readership but as an aid to thought, a way to put down what goes on in my head. I will try to be entertaining, I will try to be original and I will try to make this worthwhile.
Prehaps I should describe myself. Politically as a child I never knew how to describe myself. I saw the collectivist consensus, the centre left that is taken as orthadoxy in this country and it just didn't seem to make sense. I have always tried to think things through, to see how one idea fits in with another. If an idea dosen't fit I can then see if I should reject older established parts of my belief structure to make everything fit better, not just with themselves but with outside objective reality. I hate to take things on trust, knowledge should be based on as the phrase says 'the authority of no man', but on the coherent experience of life.
Yet this approach is difficult. Because of it I have rejected the consensus many times. I find the idea of man made global warming strange. It just dosen't add up. For years people have talked about it as fact, now increasingly it is seen as an ideology being pushed to gain influence and control. This was obvious years ago to anyone who looked, and many did yet the consensus stayed.
Anyway I digress. I am 25. In current political terminology I would be described as a libertarian although Ihate the term as un-English. I have spent the last three years doing a politics and philosophy degree at the university of Reading (or more honestly I have spent the last three years using it as an excuse to drink stupid amounts and rant about the world to increasingly bored friends) and before that I was a carer to my grandmother. I now work part time in a job well below my skill level to pay the rent and am now job hunting for something better. Tomorrow I will write a post about something I believe in. Or maybe not, this might be the first and last post I make. Lets see.
I hope to rectify that, I hope I can write and express my views; unoriginal as they may be, not so much for those reading, I doubt I will get anything like a regular readership but as an aid to thought, a way to put down what goes on in my head. I will try to be entertaining, I will try to be original and I will try to make this worthwhile.
Prehaps I should describe myself. Politically as a child I never knew how to describe myself. I saw the collectivist consensus, the centre left that is taken as orthadoxy in this country and it just didn't seem to make sense. I have always tried to think things through, to see how one idea fits in with another. If an idea dosen't fit I can then see if I should reject older established parts of my belief structure to make everything fit better, not just with themselves but with outside objective reality. I hate to take things on trust, knowledge should be based on as the phrase says 'the authority of no man', but on the coherent experience of life.
Yet this approach is difficult. Because of it I have rejected the consensus many times. I find the idea of man made global warming strange. It just dosen't add up. For years people have talked about it as fact, now increasingly it is seen as an ideology being pushed to gain influence and control. This was obvious years ago to anyone who looked, and many did yet the consensus stayed.
Anyway I digress. I am 25. In current political terminology I would be described as a libertarian although Ihate the term as un-English. I have spent the last three years doing a politics and philosophy degree at the university of Reading (or more honestly I have spent the last three years using it as an excuse to drink stupid amounts and rant about the world to increasingly bored friends) and before that I was a carer to my grandmother. I now work part time in a job well below my skill level to pay the rent and am now job hunting for something better. Tomorrow I will write a post about something I believe in. Or maybe not, this might be the first and last post I make. Lets see.
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