Genesis

Fiat verbum!

So, while I have been meaning to post my insignificant utterances somewhere for about 4 years or more, this whole thing came to pass because my son said the Word, and the Word was "How do you make your own blog?" or something to that effect.

Well, it looks like we made it.

So "paradoxical intentions" reflects my take on the zeitgeist. I'm a liberal, but I prefer to deal simply with ideas and not political positions or parties. My sense of things in early 21st century North America is that we are pretty screwed; and we're getting screwed by all of the policies which are supposedly saving us. Some of it is due to deceit, pure and simple, but a large part of it is a failure of imagination. And what was not imagined in many cases were the unintended (but absolutely predictable) consequences of the choices we are making. I won't limit my critique to politicians, because while they may be the worst of a bad lot, we are all in this together, and all to blame. We may not like to face that fact, but if our culture has become dysfunctional, refusing to accept any personal responsibility for it won't get us too far.

How do you think it became dysfunctional, after all?

But this is not intended to be the sharp, incisive, hilarious, heartfelt and revealing sort of post, but merely a welcome aboard if you happened to stumble by (how else could you have got here?) and a VERY BROAD statement of... er... something or other, but not exactly principle.

I welcome all comments, and all commentators. But I don't care a great deal for abuse, and I don't let myself engage in abusive behaviour, so... be forewarned!

Howdy neighbour!