Mind Wander

Good heavens, it's been supremely harder to get on here than I possibly anticipated. Life is indeed crazy.


You know, I've actually started a list of thoughts on things I can blog about each day, and I've got three or four things on there so far. But to be honest, they're all a little more than I think I want to write this evening. I've had a very relaxing day, and I feel pretty chill at the moment, and I'm not sure I want to get myself worked up blabbing about my particular annoyances.


Which, to be honest, is something I need to watch out for. Some of the things I anticipate blogging about will probably be considered by most people to be a bit controversial. I don't really want to create argument. That doesn't seem to really solve anything. What I'd like to do with some of the things I think about is make people think themselves. The only thing worse than someone with a wrong conviction is someone with a wrong conviction that actually knows next to nothing about what they're supporting or against. I have no problem with someone having a differing opinion from me. In fact, it's actually more likely that I'll learn something discussing a differing opinion than a similar opinion. Unless the person with the differing opinion knows next to nothing about why they feel the way that they do.

This is why people who vote straight party without even considering things really bother me. Or rather, they kind of scare me. Then again, I am a little bit of a control freak. I don't really like turning over any more power over my life than I have to to someone else, particularly someone that I know next to nothing about. This makes voting quite a challenge, particularly on the national level. Still, learning a little about each candidate for a position before voting for one is better than hoping that whoever is in competition toes the party line that you're voting for. Especially since the "party line" on both sides of the red blue divide scares me just a bit.

And whatever happened to unbiased news? Is it still even out there?

But this is turning into an overview of a whole bunch of thoughts that could probably each fill a blog in and of themselves. Probably I should wrap this up before I stop rambling.

Too late.

"Yet a variable but always present percentage of the human race ignores rules of conduct at all times. They are the handicap, the burden, the main hindrance to the maintenance or the progress of civilization. They are not consciously evil. They simply do not bother to act otherwise than as rational animals." - Leinster, Murray Operation: Outer Space, 1957, emphasis added.