So that we understand each other (with apologies to C. Guevara)

These are writings on speculative thought. These are comments on the world, and often they are also my own comments on my self, i.e. on how I look at the world.

How I look at the world is inevitably shaped by who I am, where I am, and who I am with.

I teach philosophy, a much maligned course wherein if you find it relevant you pass–if you don’t, then you don’t.

My girlfriend, Thealove, lives a dash-and-daring life as a breaking news reporter. The union of academia and journalism seems odd (though I was once a campus journalist myself), but when you find the best partner for the long journey of life you don’t let her go.

We have a bear called Padingtun, and he speaks in three distinct voices.

My dream is to live in Italy where I can have a small villa, drive small cars in small country roads, and eat pasta everyday.

The purpose of this blog is communication. I am posting my ideas here in the hopes that somebody might react and help make me think more and better. It’s is a basic tenet of my philosophy of life, and it all starts with speculation. Without critics, inquirers, and basically people who have the guts to actually say “wait, is it really the case?” life would be one howling wilderness of boredom. So let’s all make conjectures and refutations and conjectures and refutations and conjectures…

It never ends.

 

So…there!