A Starting Point

I was recently pilfering through a collection of essays and came across an intriguing notion by Mr. James Harvey Robinson, a post-modern historian. His essay, entitled Four Kinds of Thinking, attempts to explain the shift in cognitive function from the modern to post-modern eras. He says in his essay,"On inspection we shall find that even if we are not downright ashamed of a great part of our spontaneous thinking it is far too intimate, personal, ignoble or trivial to permist us to reveal more than a small part of it."

The point Robinson makes here is quite an intruiging notion to consider. How "trivial" have our day to day interactions become? How impersonal have we grown to be in our relationships both intimate and social because we are ashamed or detrimentally self-aware. What limitations have we set for ourselves never to be broached and what are the consequences? I contemplate these inferred suppositions set forth by Robinson because it recently struck me that this should be the goal of my writing. On a larger scale perhaps, the answering of these questions and solving of these problems should be the goal of our lives.

This piece will not necessarily be narrative or expository as future installments surely will, but I feel it is necessary to tell any readers, presently or in the future, that this blog will be a platform of honesty that is, as James Harvey Robinson put it, "intimate, personal, ignoble". And perhaps, though it is not my aim, trivial. Because no matter how you view the world there are rather trivial aspects, and these aspects demand their moment too.

Consider this piece a road sign for bumpy roads ahead because a warning seems to melodramatic. But the writing henceforth may be offensive to some, but it will be honest and endearing.