Monday, April 6, 2009

#1

Why should you read my blog? Because it's not about me. It's about you and everyone else. Yes, you could say that essentially, the blog is about me: it espouses my ideas and opinions. But the subject of my blog is not I.
Why should you read my blog? Because I make and enter a (multiplicity of) discourse that each and everyone of you might find relevant.
Why should you read my blog? Because in argument and discourse one's argument is made clearer, the truth is slowly uncovered and humanity benefits.
Why should you read my blog? Because it is a slow fight against ignorance, against common-sense ideals, against the crowd mentality and against immorality.

Do I believe the posts here will achieve all that I claim? No.
Many will deride this blog as useless, stupid and ostentatious.
Many will deride me as useless, stupid and ostentatious.
That is fine. You, reader, will know where they stand in relation to the ideas put forth.
Many will consider my person (any aspect of it) as warrant for my observations' being fallacious. I ask you not to value me, but my ideas. These are independent of me.
Editing will take place only to elucidate and clarify.
Do I believe I am some kind of arbiter of truth? No.
The Truth is there for all to attain; I am your stepping stool. Don't bother wiping your shoes.
Those smarter, stronger and abler than I should attempt to help, not me, but Truth.

What is the ultimate goal of such posting?
1) To facilitate discourse on the subject of the post (discourse either here in the form of comments, discourse on the street in the form of heated argument or discourse in the mind in the form of wrestling logic)-->
2) By dialectic, the truth will out.
3) There is nothing that is an end in itself, this post included and Truth included. "Only Man is an end in himself." -Ayn Rand