Beginnings are hard.
I have to admit, I love to rant and I love to write, same as a lot of other people. Trying to share one’s opinion in an ocean of opinions seems like a lost cause, but many of you already know me, and, well, I figure why not try? The world is going to hell in a handbasket and what it really needs is one more person crying in the wilderness to raise the alarm and awareness. Or maybe not. We’ll see.
My objective is twofold:
1) to create a conversation with people who may not be like-minded. Civil discourse, it once was called. Maybe we can exercise our discourse skills and see if we can’t revive that art? and 2) to connect with people who share the same ideals and thinking and offer them the opportunity to connect with each other, and maybe bring along some new thinkers.
I can’t do it alone.
None of us can have discourse alone. I know you try it, just like I do, in the wee hours of the morning you awaken and have a brilliant idea, and then a conversation with your alter self that you know would inspire 8 billion souls to do the right thing, whatever that right thing is. But the reality is we need to actually talk WITH EACH OTHER, not past each other, not to our mirror reflections, and not just to our camera phones. We also need to learn the art of listening and hearing. It’s truly a lost art.
Climate Info and Stuff
I will be sharing links to Guy’s blog and Nature Bats Last youtube videos about climate change and the rapidly deteriorating Earth's ecosystem. I will also discuss current events that affect each of us intimately, like access to: birth control, safe abortion, housing, health care, a living wage, civil rights, and voting rights. You can join in a civil conversation here. But if it strays into name-calling or anything that would be a clear violation of being a decent person participating in a civil conversation, you won’t be welcome here. And I’ll try not to be an a-hole too. Sometimes it’s hard for us Greeks… We don’t often mince words, or tolerate fools.
I have no idea how often I’ll be posting yet, but it will be free for now. If things get crazy, I may require a subscription to comment.
Today’s video was about the hopium of “renewable” energy.
I wish you a good start !!
Nice introduction. To me, it's a great idea to share beliefs opinions, etc. It's actually not so easy, at least for me, to even find like minded people on the climate where I reside. So thanks, this could be interesting in many ways.