This
blog is above all else a personal exercise I do for my mental health.
I have found keeping the mind active through reading, writing and
drawing to be one of the most useful tools in my recovery. It is true
that I am also a bit of a narcissist, so I like the idea of being
able to post some of the interesting ideas I’m reading about
online, which gives me a good motivation to do a bit of writing.
I often have little
to say, so a lot of it is just quotes. I have a scanner sitting next
to me and could easily scan the pages and use an image-to-text app,
but I actually prefer to transcribe them. So when I read something
interesting, I’ll get up, transcribe a few paragraphs, maybe stick
a few together to put it into context a bit, maybe fill the gaps with
my own summaries. I might find a few related articles or a video to
link in there. But I’m not trying to sell myself as any kind of
expert, or any kind of genius, or even particularly mentally well for
that matter.
I’ve just been reading a few interesting books recently and would like to share what I’m learning.
Like many people who experience precarious lifestyles either through choice or circumstance, I am burned out. This is a blog that is also designed to speak for the dispossessed, many of whom are not well...and I am one of them.
So I deliberately leave it a little rough around the edges. I am using a free blog, with a standard template, and I often do my posts in a rush. Sometimes I post a lot, sometimes I post nothing at all.
It looks a little bit like virtue signalling? Well I guess it is that. We all like to look like smarty pants these days I guess. But I think you’ll find it’s equally self-depreciative too. In order to speak about the topics I am covering, I think it would undermine my own message if I weren’t completely honest about some of the poor choices I have made in life. At the time of this writing I am jobless, living in public housing, a heavy smoker and suffering various forms of mental illness.
Oh, so it’s competitive victimhood then? I suppose it is a bit of that too, if I’m being honest with myself. I will be speaking about economic discrimination the same way you would talk about other forms of discrimination, and it will at times probably read like “oh look at this poor white man who’s being discriminated against”, and I guess I apologise in advance for that. I’m sure that’s how some people will read it.
I will talk a lot about the incentives and disincentives that different people face in life to make certain choices, and when I do that there are going to be differences. It can’t be helped.
I’ve just been reading a few interesting books recently and would like to share what I’m learning.
Like many people who experience precarious lifestyles either through choice or circumstance, I am burned out. This is a blog that is also designed to speak for the dispossessed, many of whom are not well...and I am one of them.
So I deliberately leave it a little rough around the edges. I am using a free blog, with a standard template, and I often do my posts in a rush. Sometimes I post a lot, sometimes I post nothing at all.
It looks a little bit like virtue signalling? Well I guess it is that. We all like to look like smarty pants these days I guess. But I think you’ll find it’s equally self-depreciative too. In order to speak about the topics I am covering, I think it would undermine my own message if I weren’t completely honest about some of the poor choices I have made in life. At the time of this writing I am jobless, living in public housing, a heavy smoker and suffering various forms of mental illness.
Oh, so it’s competitive victimhood then? I suppose it is a bit of that too, if I’m being honest with myself. I will be speaking about economic discrimination the same way you would talk about other forms of discrimination, and it will at times probably read like “oh look at this poor white man who’s being discriminated against”, and I guess I apologise in advance for that. I’m sure that’s how some people will read it.
I will talk a lot about the incentives and disincentives that different people face in life to make certain choices, and when I do that there are going to be differences. It can’t be helped.
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