Hello

So… why does this place exist?

It’s here because I need a little bit of a quiet place to think. As I find social media getting 4channier and louder and more aggressive, I find myself getting dumber and angrier and less and less able to say why I am feeling a thing, rather than the fact that I’m feeling the thing. I’m finding myself at cross-purposes to people I love, and I am finding myself simply spinning my heels with the frustration and anger of it.

And so, I’m opting out. If social media is the two minutes hate, then political memes are the newspeak of our era, and I am going to do my best to not participate in that anymore. I’m not going to stop paying attention to things, and I’m not going to stop participating in the world, but I’m certainly going to stop feeding the demon that Mark Zuckerberg et. al. have raised. So, I’m moving here, to a domain I own, and I’m going to do my best to commit paragraphs to the page and be as thoughtful as I can. I’m not expecting a ton of readership here, but if I have the chance to make my thoughts coherent, and gather together notes about the world, maybe that’ll be enough. Putting together something and actually expressing it sounds better to me than just constantly throwing one sentence snark out into the void, anyway.