I want to start a blog. Why? I want to start a blog for several reasons. First a foremost, all the cool kids have blogs! I really admire some people with blogs and envy what they do. I don't think it's because I want to be a blogger; I'd hate to be one of those people who wants to be a musician more than they want to make music.
So, there's many reasons I want to start (and carry on with...) a blog; the idea of a dissonance diary, a way to track my own ideas and opinions in order to see how they change and where they contradict each other. Dissonance theory is discussed to a real consciousness-raising level in Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me). Erm... consciousness-raising is discussed to a erm... consciousness-raising level in The God Delusion (td;dr it changes the way you look at things in a pretty fundamental way).
I would also like to be able to express political, philosophical or whatever opinions in depth (or perhaps just record conversations, debates or - heaven forbid - arguments for the sake of posterity). There is always the worry I am ranting and rambling when talking to someone or talking online.
It may be that I end up writing a literary criticism or personal profile; if I really find a knack for it I might write a literary profile or personal criticism. If I get drunk, I might accidentally spout an emotional torrent. That should be disregarded as akin to the ramblings of man yelling at traffic.
Most of this has a general aim (or self-justification) that I want to be better at writing. It's just dawned on me that I could also do some picks in the manner of the Rationally Speaking blog, I suppose I unintentionally did that in this post. Sweet.
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