Recently, and with the prescriptive help of a friend, I came to the realization that the negativity in this blog is getting to be a little out of control. Of course, this is due in large to the fact that venting is therapeutic, and that writing is more productive, at times, than, say, drinking.
So i've started a new blog. This was also inspired by a friend who recently moved away. It was his wish to take the first steps in movement towards sincerity. Such a movement would ultimately be away from irony. This is not to say that irony would not have it's place in the New Sincerity Movement (coined: Dan Means), but indeed, irony would not be a milestone.
So by the terms of the New Sincerity Movement I am putting myself out there (so to speak), and I am doing it without a trace of negativity or ironic distance. I will not make fun of other. I will not complain or bicker. I will expose my academic love for philosophy, clearly and, with some luck, articulately. This new thread is called Serious Philosophy. It will feature some of my academic writing (including the paper i've been working on over the past few weeks), and post-academic writing, both instructive and critical, regarding whatever i'm reading at the time. This is, indeed, a visionary quest.
I do not expect the readers of this thread to cross over to the other. That's fine. I simply want to pursue something academic during my time away from school. This seems as good a forum as any.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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I must confess that I did not coin the term "New Sincerity", I am merely a practitioner of this school of thought. You can read a poor quality wikipedia article here. Look into The Sound of Young America, by the way.
Does this mean you're going to stop this blog?
The show will go on. Something will be up later tonight. Probably about wine tasting and wine tasters.
I love when your blogs mention me. Also, I love reading your blogs and laughing out loud in the public library. Actually, that kinda bugs me and thrills me simultaneously, it's confusing. Anyway, Though I am proud you moved to a whole-hearted embrace of the type of writing your inner self knows you want to do, I am saddened that I will no longer read additions along the lines of "possible ambassadors." Cuz that shit is goin' in the movie, man. One caveat; I don't believe in inner selves. I am engaging in a conventional sort of colloquialism to express an intended meaning. I don't know if you believe that's possible to do. Meaning outisde of the words we use to express it. On that note, let me bop over to your other thread.
concerning that caveat: I believe in understanding expressions. Expressions, like words, maintain importance only in connection with a myriad of other expressions, all of which resemble language. I understand the expression "inner-self" just as i uderstand the expression "soul." Whether or not i believe in these metaphysical entities is unimportant. What's important is that you laugh our loud in libraries in southern california and that Santa Cruz misses you like hell. I miss you. The garrison (R.I.P) misses you. Additionally, i'm still posting on this page. There will continue to be references to ambassadors and other ridiculous garrisonisms.
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