I keep the Index at WritingUp up-to-date with developments here.
I think the other older, major blog, substantial, is an excellent read. I only have 100 entries from a span across years, but I really like everything I wrote there, girly as it can be sometimes.
Oh yeah, speaking of girly.
I have other blogs, but I’m trying to post that older content here when I can or link back to it.
I guess you’re wondering why I’m bringing all this up. I wanted to post on the problem of equality, and how we might want to reconceive it so as to find ways of preserving the middle class and its values.
And then I realized that to dictate solutions isn’t my style, especially not when Aristotle, in speaking of a “middling” regime, says it only comes about by “fortune,” meaning that to try to implement a policy to create something that best comes about through luck is barking up the wrong tree. I don’t need to add my voice to shrill and inane class warfare rhetoric. Maybe when I have a better grasp on the problem I’ll say something, but while I see it clearly now, I know I can’t say anything that wouldn’t make the stupidity of our class warfare (which thank God is marginal) worse.
What I need is for those of us in our generation to watch out for each other, i.e. treat each other as if each of us were as important as the other, and that’s happening already. Equality in the best sense is already being achieved, being achieved through fraternity, and I don’t need to say a damn thing to see my ideals realized.
So I figured this was a good time to just advertise the older writings. This is actually nearing an anniversary; it’s been about a year since I started the WritingUp blog and then this blog, and they’ve been fairly consistent. And I know from people talking to me that people are learning from these blogs, learning tons. I’ve been getting into debates with people recently whose first experience with political philosophy was the Gettysburg Address post, or whose first real experience with poetry analysis was the post on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
And those debates, I think, call for a celebration of sorts. Hence, this post.
- South Park, Equality, and Power
- The Beginning
- At Ground Zero
- Clarifying the "Crushes" Post
- I’m not a Pittsburgh fan…
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Ashok,
I hope that the semester is wrapping up well. I can’t believe that next Friday I fly down there to drive back with you. Time sure flies huh? I hope that your thanksgiving was good, I know mine was. I missed your call last week and am sorry I haven’t called you back. I haven’t been that busy I have just been real apathetic about things. I think I was fatigued. From what I couldn’t say. But I feel better this week. Maybe I just needed some time off to contemplate.
Peace