Edit: try the auto-sized version. I got ahead of myself and should have looked around a bit Hey folks, I tried to do a thing and wanted to share it with you. Not long ago I jumped into a...
Hey folks, I tried to do a thing and wanted to share it with you.
Not long ago I jumped into a discussion and ended up rambling again about politics and systems and such, and moocow1452 asked whether I had a newsletter. I didn't, but was flattered, so I tried to make something.
This first essay is me setting the stage a bit, laying out where I'm coming from, who I am, and what I intend to do. What I wanted to do is obtain some permission and set a schedule for myself with this topic. I don't want to be disruptive, and I'm not trying to antagonize. Because of the subject matter, there will be moments of me talking askance of different issues/problems and approaching situations from angles that get used a lot for all kinds of ends. I will inevitably write something that angers someone, that makes them suspicious, so on and so forth, but it's never my intention, is the best I can say. I want to be clear, that I make a distinction between what I observe and what I personally believe, and these essays are firmly rooted in the "what I observe" part of that sentence. I will share personal things along the way, and pledge to make it as obvious as possible when I'm doing that, because I want to maintain respect for the fact you are each a thinking person. I'm not trying to be a lecturer or a moralist, nor particularly partisan. I will fall into something I'm sure, and I'm aware of all the stereotypes about people saying they have no ideology/are "apolitical". I just have to take that to do what I want to do, is how I see it.
The schedule I'd like to set for myself, in the short term, is an essay every week, posted on Sunday mornings. I wanted to share this one now so I could pitch the idea and see what folks think. I'd post the next one on the 28th of July. If that works, this means me posting a topic every week, with a link to the essay. The comment section would be the discussion of it. Once I feel like I've "caught up" a bit, I might change to bi-weekly, or when particularly major events occur. I suspect we're in for a lot of "major events" so I'll do my best not to be ridiculous about that. I don't mean to report news. Folks are already plenty good at doing that and I do have a completely different set of things in my life to keep up with. I want to be thoughtful, sincere, and detailed, so I don't think I should try to ride at the very edge, if that makes sense.
I've shared in the past about my plans and endeavors, and really appreciate the level of engagement folks have shown with all of that. My own conditions have shifted a bit, to a state where my business potential is a bit reduced and I've got some unexpected spare time. I didn't want to do a separate site/mailing list, because while I'd like for lots of people to read it, I'd prefer I get to that because folks shared it with each other, with people they think would like what I wrote. As I say in the essay, I won't be trying to do a business venture, and won't be advertising myself. I want to preserve authentic communication as best I can, and I also want folks to trust my intentions. I want some attention, not all of the attention. So it's just a simple document, a thing to read in the morning with your coffee and think about. You're free to keep it, give it to people, whatever you would like to do. I'd appreciate some credit but I left out my name on purpose - it's about the content, not me. If folks want to follow along, this would be the place to do that, my account here on Tildes would be that. The hope is that if I can do this and catch a regular audience, I can engage with folks and hone my perspective enough to compose a bigger work, a book or something like that with all the proper citations and details.
So I guess in a way I'm asking for permission, to post some raw philosophical work here on the regular. It will involve politics a lot, but not always, because in the end what I hope to accomplish is an account of our time that encapsulates not just abstract movements of systems, but the experiences and feelings of people. So that as the future unfolds, there is an answer to the question, "what happened" that at least tries to be a complete picture, that isn't derived from groups intending to answer that question toward achieving particular ends. As I wrote in the essay, I know being objective isn't really possible, but I think the way to answer that problem is to simply say "I'll do my best". I'd like to see what folks think, however opposed or different their perspectives are, and see what I can put together with all of it in mind as I try to puzzle things out for myself. As always, I appreciate your time and attention.
I'll also abide by whatever tagging/topic heading folks think will work best. I figured ~humanities would be best considering the type of work I'm trying to make, but am happy to defer to the community.
Edit: Would ya'll be interested in audio? I could always read it out and post that along with a written version.
I like it. If you're focusing it on Tildes as your distribution, it would be neat if it was here, or had an email list, or was somewhere else with an RSS because I'm an old. But platform aside,...
I like it. If you're focusing it on Tildes as your distribution, it would be neat if it was here, or had an email list, or was somewhere else with an RSS because I'm an old. But platform aside, I'm really interested to see where this goes.
I will look around and see if I can do RSS. I've never actually done anything with it before, but if it will make things easy for folks I'm game to learn. I really appreciate ya'll taking an...
I will look around and see if I can do RSS. I've never actually done anything with it before, but if it will make things easy for folks I'm game to learn. I really appreciate ya'll taking an interest!
Edit: If you have a spare moment, would you mind checking out this version and see if it reads better? I looked around for auto-sized layouts and it seems to work out much better on my devices.
This is much more legible, thank you! FWIW: rss is fantastic, as it permits signing up and subscribing to that which doesn’t require another service to subscribe to (substack, medium, or even...
This is much more legible, thank you!
FWIW: rss is fantastic, as it permits signing up and subscribing to that which doesn’t require another service to subscribe to (substack, medium, or even facebook, twitter). I really would recommend it!
I'm not going to lie, it took me longer than it should've to understand the kind of idealism the newsletter was referring to. Though, it would be very strange to write regularly to a general...
I'm not going to lie, it took me longer than it should've to understand the kind of idealism the newsletter was referring to. Though, it would be very strange to write regularly to a general audience about metaphysical idealism lol
My bad. Yeah, I'm being simplistic/colloquial there. There is some stuff I have regarding idealism and materialism, but I'll make those meanings way more clear when they come up.
My bad. Yeah, I'm being simplistic/colloquial there. There is some stuff I have regarding idealism and materialism, but I'll make those meanings way more clear when they come up.
Edit: try the auto-sized version. I got ahead of myself and should have looked around a bit
Hey folks, I tried to do a thing and wanted to share it with you.
Not long ago I jumped into a discussion and ended up rambling again about politics and systems and such, and moocow1452 asked whether I had a newsletter. I didn't, but was flattered, so I tried to make something.
This first essay is me setting the stage a bit, laying out where I'm coming from, who I am, and what I intend to do. What I wanted to do is obtain some permission and set a schedule for myself with this topic. I don't want to be disruptive, and I'm not trying to antagonize. Because of the subject matter, there will be moments of me talking askance of different issues/problems and approaching situations from angles that get used a lot for all kinds of ends. I will inevitably write something that angers someone, that makes them suspicious, so on and so forth, but it's never my intention, is the best I can say. I want to be clear, that I make a distinction between what I observe and what I personally believe, and these essays are firmly rooted in the "what I observe" part of that sentence. I will share personal things along the way, and pledge to make it as obvious as possible when I'm doing that, because I want to maintain respect for the fact you are each a thinking person. I'm not trying to be a lecturer or a moralist, nor particularly partisan. I will fall into something I'm sure, and I'm aware of all the stereotypes about people saying they have no ideology/are "apolitical". I just have to take that to do what I want to do, is how I see it.
The schedule I'd like to set for myself, in the short term, is an essay every week, posted on Sunday mornings. I wanted to share this one now so I could pitch the idea and see what folks think. I'd post the next one on the 28th of July. If that works, this means me posting a topic every week, with a link to the essay. The comment section would be the discussion of it. Once I feel like I've "caught up" a bit, I might change to bi-weekly, or when particularly major events occur. I suspect we're in for a lot of "major events" so I'll do my best not to be ridiculous about that. I don't mean to report news. Folks are already plenty good at doing that and I do have a completely different set of things in my life to keep up with. I want to be thoughtful, sincere, and detailed, so I don't think I should try to ride at the very edge, if that makes sense.
I've shared in the past about my plans and endeavors, and really appreciate the level of engagement folks have shown with all of that. My own conditions have shifted a bit, to a state where my business potential is a bit reduced and I've got some unexpected spare time. I didn't want to do a separate site/mailing list, because while I'd like for lots of people to read it, I'd prefer I get to that because folks shared it with each other, with people they think would like what I wrote. As I say in the essay, I won't be trying to do a business venture, and won't be advertising myself. I want to preserve authentic communication as best I can, and I also want folks to trust my intentions. I want some attention, not all of the attention. So it's just a simple document, a thing to read in the morning with your coffee and think about. You're free to keep it, give it to people, whatever you would like to do. I'd appreciate some credit but I left out my name on purpose - it's about the content, not me. If folks want to follow along, this would be the place to do that, my account here on Tildes would be that. The hope is that if I can do this and catch a regular audience, I can engage with folks and hone my perspective enough to compose a bigger work, a book or something like that with all the proper citations and details.
So I guess in a way I'm asking for permission, to post some raw philosophical work here on the regular. It will involve politics a lot, but not always, because in the end what I hope to accomplish is an account of our time that encapsulates not just abstract movements of systems, but the experiences and feelings of people. So that as the future unfolds, there is an answer to the question, "what happened" that at least tries to be a complete picture, that isn't derived from groups intending to answer that question toward achieving particular ends. As I wrote in the essay, I know being objective isn't really possible, but I think the way to answer that problem is to simply say "I'll do my best". I'd like to see what folks think, however opposed or different their perspectives are, and see what I can put together with all of it in mind as I try to puzzle things out for myself. As always, I appreciate your time and attention.
I'll also abide by whatever tagging/topic heading folks think will work best. I figured ~humanities would be best considering the type of work I'm trying to make, but am happy to defer to the community.
Edit: Would ya'll be interested in audio? I could always read it out and post that along with a written version.
I like it. If you're focusing it on Tildes as your distribution, it would be neat if it was here, or had an email list, or was somewhere else with an RSS because I'm an old. But platform aside, I'm really interested to see where this goes.
RSS would be great! It’s very hard for me to read on Canva, but what little I can make out seems exciting. 👀
I will look around and see if I can do RSS. I've never actually done anything with it before, but if it will make things easy for folks I'm game to learn. I really appreciate ya'll taking an interest!
Edit: If you have a spare moment, would you mind checking out this version and see if it reads better? I looked around for auto-sized layouts and it seems to work out much better on my devices.
This is much more legible, thank you!
FWIW: rss is fantastic, as it permits signing up and subscribing to that which doesn’t require another service to subscribe to (substack, medium, or even facebook, twitter). I really would recommend it!
great start and i like the project itself. 👍
I'm not going to lie, it took me longer than it should've to understand the kind of idealism the newsletter was referring to. Though, it would be very strange to write regularly to a general audience about metaphysical idealism lol
My bad. Yeah, I'm being simplistic/colloquial there. There is some stuff I have regarding idealism and materialism, but I'll make those meanings way more clear when they come up.