2021 Start
I'm not in the habit of resolutions. They're usually set by people with no intention of keeping/maintaining them. I typically map goals out throughout the year anyway out of habit and work towards them.As far as not so new goals go, I do want to minimize certain things. My time spent on anti-social media, or on-line in general. I try to veer clear from Internet poisoning of my soul. While I am a technologist by skill and trade, I'm really not. I find more fulfillment in art and in writing, in literature and my environment. Politics was putrid, it splintered and divided people. Now there are two exiting camps in America: the communists/socialist far left (aka radical libs), and the ones who weren't. I was of the later group, the ones who considered themselves as being patriotic, which the left/libs despised (just as much as they did freedom and the nation that they're in). Ungrateful, spoiled rotten shits really. I wish they could be offloaded into Hong Kong, mainland China or North Korea for an extended vacation. Might give them a new appreciation for the nation (somehow I doubt it, but who knows?).I observed that I came to seriously detest the internet ecosystem, which was hostile and toxic. It was narcissistic and mean spirited, and there was an evil mindset that flourished therein. Never-mind the fact that it was a devourer of one's time and mental/emotional well-being, but also a spreader of misinformation, confusion, and even depression.I know we 'feel' like it's a good thing, and it can be when done right. Yet most people cannot handle it, they lack the discipline and personal tools to manage themselves. In a sense, it could be a wonderful ecosystem like it once was during the politically incorrect web 1.0 era. Now? It's a form of addiction and also enslavement. Self-enslavement, for we do have the option to walk away. Facebook and Twitter are influencer think tanks mass manipulating us all in how to think, act, behave, and even spend, who to vote for, all the choices you thought were your own. They want to own your ass!
Something Inexpressible
A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Yet nothing is invincible-Synchronicity The PoliceYou're here, obviously reading this, wondering what this even is (or isn't).Simply it is this:25% personal blog: pictures, quotes, listicles, etc. 45% personal journal: my life, thingies that are going on, thoughts, etc. 20% writings: my writing lifeI do realize people don't actually read shit online much, myself included. So I'll try to write succinctly as I can, as often. Short attention span theater of the mind requires this of me. Yet I'm not here writing for multitudes of strangers, this is for me. Not out of my need or want, but for helping others as well as myself. Blame it on this quote that I like:
"It is presumptious to assume we can do anything to help another person and it's vulgar not to try" -Edward Dahlberg.
Return to Chicago
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to LisbonHere's me flying right before the pandemic struck. And thus I got to see the city of my origin story once more before travel bans, masks, and great fear, anxiety, civil unrest, political upheaval sets in
