Dreaming the Future Closer

I am getting to the point where there is a sort of praxis involved in posting to this blog.  I understand that what is posted here is not the final word on anything I am writing on, but that in the effort to write as if it were, I move one step closer to a more thought out position.

Sometimes, I discover that what seemed clear in the confines of my thoughts reveals itself as tangled and muddy in writing.  Unless it is irredeemably so, I still post it because I have faith in my capacity to keep thinking beyond my posting of it.

I also hope that, in spite of the muddiness, a reader might come along who will see in it something useful, that will spark their own thinking or allow them to push a thought already in motion a little further forward.

I also think its very important to learn that thoughts aren’t born fully formed from the minds of geniuses, ready for the rest of us to gobble up. 

I would hope people come to my posts with a critical eye, not in order to demolish what can be demolished, but it order to extract from it what is good to them. 

But there is something more going on, too.  In applying a critical eye, the critic learns more of themselves, acquires a firmer sense of their own tastes, of their own place. 

I hope that the muddier posts still provide some glimpse of my own critical eye at work.

I’m starting this blog for a very simple reason–to get all these ideas that are rushing through my head out of my personal notebooks and into the world.  True, this is a small step toward that ‘into the world’ but it is a step nonetheless. 

Most of what you will find here will be a mixture of personal musings and, for lack of a better word, political considerations.  I’m not sure what the mix will look like at this point, but I aim to keep things as compact and easily digestible as possible. 

I don’t want this to be a place where I post lengthy tracts and treatises, but something more diagrammatic, a map with arrows pointing out all the trajectories that seem available at present.  I don’t want this to be about my words, my ideas, but about potential actions and practices.