Welcome

Hello and thank you for coming! Let me be perfectly honest us front. There is no coherent structure or purpose to this blog. I’m not especially interested in creativity or authenticity, and I’m not great at producing them. I have a very hard time being brief, and I like to repeat myself a lot. I see all ideas as being part of an infinite, interconnected whole, so I often end up in unexpected places or back in the same places more often than I would like.

  So why read this blog? I have a natural loathing of podcasts and blogs myself, so naturally I’m the perfect person to start one. I hate to join in on what other people are doing, and I can’t help but disagree with people whenever there seems to be a broad consensus. I love philosophy and literature, but I can’t stand writers or philosophers. So if I were you, I would hate this blog. And let’s be honest, I am in no way cool or hip, and I am not good looking. I profoundly lack artistic talent. So you won’t get any of that value here.

     Alright, so I’m not cool, not especially creative, and not interested in pleasing anyone other than myself. So why bother reading any of my entries? What do I have to offer? I believe my mother once said that I had an especially gift for spouting piffle. Endless pontificating, pointless musing. Lots of both of those. Add a bit of philosophy, a bit of science, psychology, theology, economics, and you start to get the picture. You also might get some private musings about my own life, struggles, and character. I’m a husband and a parent. I’m an employer, a worker, a business owner, a craftsman.

     All this blog contains is a record of my personal journal entries. Some people use their journal to talk about their lives. I like to record my own internal arguments with myself. I write down what I think so I can figure out what I think.

     Generally, the content is safe for all ages. There might be some very rare instances of strong language. When I talk about sex I like to be frank, purely for the sake of clarity. I’m not out to offend anyone about anything. I don’t see any point to useless vulgarities. But I also don’t see how knowledge is served by avoiding asking certain kinds of questions or saying certain kinds of things.

     Why might I be someone worthwhile listening to? No special reason. I’m nobody in particular. I’m not famous or especially successful. I have no “platform”. I might be above average intelligence, but I never figured out any special use for it. In fact for a long time I wasn’t even sure who I was or what I was like. I took a lot of personality tests, trying to figure myself out, and they all came back negative.

    When I finally did find a test that correctly diagnosed my condition, it all made sense. My particular personality is split right across the largest archetypal divide. Half thinking, half feeling, with no clear focus of interest. I’m always a bit at war with myself, and I can always find a reason to disagree with anyone about anything, because I can’t find any agreement inside my own head.

    And I think that’s what I bring to table. Because that’s what life is like. That’s what people are like. We’re at war with one another. We have no clear single interest, no clear single perspective. We’re at war with ourselves. Our species is spread across the largest divide. But maybe, just maybe, somewhere strung over the abyss, that’s where the answers are.

     So come along, join me, if you have the patience. You might find some gems hidden in here. You might find someone who shares your concerns, your feelings, your thoughts, your hopes, your taste in children’s cartoons. Welcome to Making Nobody Happy.