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Happy No New Years Resolutions
Jan. 1st, 2019 07:20 pmWhelp, it's now another "current year." And the concept of New Year's resolutions hasn't become any less cliche'd. Thus, I will not be penning an exhaustive list of high-minded aspirations and bad habit correct I will certainly not accomplish according to any sort of calendar-oriented schedule. The latter part, bad habit correction, should be an ongoing process anyway; something without any discrete deadlines or planned cessation periods.
Well, there is one commitment. That is, to keep this journal regularly updated, fresh with ideas, on-point, and all for a very long stretch into the future. I've failed at this many times over in the past. What happened each time was that I started some blog devoting to some singular interest of mine at the time of writing. The problem is that my main focus of interest always shifts from one or more things to another. The scenario would usually play out along these lines: six months to a year onto the project and I have lost the intellectual passion for whatever topic I was obsessively writing about. Each attempt yielded the same result: a dead blog. So enough for wasted efforts; here I write about everything and anything that crosses my mind which I deem worthy posting to a general public audience.
And speaking of audiences, I'm quite sure there's next to no people reading this journal, save maybe a tiny handful of close confidantes I can count on one hand. And that's fine. One of the reasons I fled from mainstream social media is that I did NOT want a lot of people reading my daily thoughts; at least not the sort of people who would be my "friends" on non-anonymous sites like Faceberg/Zuckerbook (Facesuck, really). Those sites are more geared for personal subject matter anyway, and I'm the sort of person who doesn't like sharing personal info with other people. Anyone reading this journal will probably take notice of the fact that I don't really talk about myself here, much less my personal daily details or emotional states. Most topics here are about my various intellectual interests and I write these posts in a rather impersonal manner. In fact, this post is probably the most personal I have gotten since starting this journal. There might be a few personal posts here and there in the future, but don't expect them to be all that frequent. I loathe talking about myself. Really. Mainly because I'm of the opinion that my personal life is quite boring. So why would I want to bore others with something supremely mundane and unremarkable? Anyone who stumbles across this blog in the future won't know who in the nine the hells I am anyway; beyond my interest persona of course. So maybe I'll build a tiny little audience on here? Who knows? I do know that I'm not looking for "likes" or any other kind of quantifiable e-validation. Qualitative validation is fine though; after all, I do need to allow my narcissistic side the occasional stroll around the block.
Actually, I do have a lot of interesting stories from my own past. But I probably won't be sharing many them, if any at all. I'm super paranoid about sharing anything that can reveal any bits of PIN (Personally-Identifiable Information); information about myself or the people involved in my stories. I respect everyone's privacy all around. And I have to be especially-privacy conscious in this age of the internet being chock full of perpetually-offended snowflakes. Yeah, the millennial generation just might ruin the internet. Boomers invented the internet (hey, at least they got one thing right) and GenXers made it fun in that savagely funny and entertaining kind of way. And maybe/hopefully Zommers (Gen Z) will resuscitate that spirit in due time. But those pesky millennials and their unrelenting fundamentalist PC puritanism -- they suck the living fun out of just about everything these days.
So 2019...What'll it be? I have no idea really and I don't like to insert myself into the business of making bold predictions. But I can guess that the culture war will probably rage on for at least a few more years as the cluster of moral panics gradually die down and the cultural scene returns to some semblance of normalcy. Big tech corporations will probably continue to censor those who boldly mock PC culture and retain their overall tone-deaf assessment of how the average person actually thinks and feels about this stuff. There will be new companies though swooping in and filling the growing market gap. And some of the big players may finally start to get the picture and thus get with the program and stop pretending that the majority shares the opinions of the 8% radical "progressive" (Neomarxist) fringe here in the US. At a more global scale, nationalist-populism (and populism in general) will continue to gain popularity and slowly begin to supplant the dying Neoliberal (Globalist-corporatist) order. Though this process will probably be quite messy.
I'm rambling on way too much here. It's starting to drone on like a list of silly New Year's resolutions.
Well, there is one commitment. That is, to keep this journal regularly updated, fresh with ideas, on-point, and all for a very long stretch into the future. I've failed at this many times over in the past. What happened each time was that I started some blog devoting to some singular interest of mine at the time of writing. The problem is that my main focus of interest always shifts from one or more things to another. The scenario would usually play out along these lines: six months to a year onto the project and I have lost the intellectual passion for whatever topic I was obsessively writing about. Each attempt yielded the same result: a dead blog. So enough for wasted efforts; here I write about everything and anything that crosses my mind which I deem worthy posting to a general public audience.
And speaking of audiences, I'm quite sure there's next to no people reading this journal, save maybe a tiny handful of close confidantes I can count on one hand. And that's fine. One of the reasons I fled from mainstream social media is that I did NOT want a lot of people reading my daily thoughts; at least not the sort of people who would be my "friends" on non-anonymous sites like Faceberg/Zuckerbook (Facesuck, really). Those sites are more geared for personal subject matter anyway, and I'm the sort of person who doesn't like sharing personal info with other people. Anyone reading this journal will probably take notice of the fact that I don't really talk about myself here, much less my personal daily details or emotional states. Most topics here are about my various intellectual interests and I write these posts in a rather impersonal manner. In fact, this post is probably the most personal I have gotten since starting this journal. There might be a few personal posts here and there in the future, but don't expect them to be all that frequent. I loathe talking about myself. Really. Mainly because I'm of the opinion that my personal life is quite boring. So why would I want to bore others with something supremely mundane and unremarkable? Anyone who stumbles across this blog in the future won't know who in the nine the hells I am anyway; beyond my interest persona of course. So maybe I'll build a tiny little audience on here? Who knows? I do know that I'm not looking for "likes" or any other kind of quantifiable e-validation. Qualitative validation is fine though; after all, I do need to allow my narcissistic side the occasional stroll around the block.
Actually, I do have a lot of interesting stories from my own past. But I probably won't be sharing many them, if any at all. I'm super paranoid about sharing anything that can reveal any bits of PIN (Personally-Identifiable Information); information about myself or the people involved in my stories. I respect everyone's privacy all around. And I have to be especially-privacy conscious in this age of the internet being chock full of perpetually-offended snowflakes. Yeah, the millennial generation just might ruin the internet. Boomers invented the internet (hey, at least they got one thing right) and GenXers made it fun in that savagely funny and entertaining kind of way. And maybe/hopefully Zommers (Gen Z) will resuscitate that spirit in due time. But those pesky millennials and their unrelenting fundamentalist PC puritanism -- they suck the living fun out of just about everything these days.
So 2019...What'll it be? I have no idea really and I don't like to insert myself into the business of making bold predictions. But I can guess that the culture war will probably rage on for at least a few more years as the cluster of moral panics gradually die down and the cultural scene returns to some semblance of normalcy. Big tech corporations will probably continue to censor those who boldly mock PC culture and retain their overall tone-deaf assessment of how the average person actually thinks and feels about this stuff. There will be new companies though swooping in and filling the growing market gap. And some of the big players may finally start to get the picture and thus get with the program and stop pretending that the majority shares the opinions of the 8% radical "progressive" (Neomarxist) fringe here in the US. At a more global scale, nationalist-populism (and populism in general) will continue to gain popularity and slowly begin to supplant the dying Neoliberal (Globalist-corporatist) order. Though this process will probably be quite messy.
I'm rambling on way too much here. It's starting to drone on like a list of silly New Year's resolutions.
