Most of my initial posts on this blog are going to be based on very specific topics. These topics are generally hot button topics that are fodder for argument on TV, radio and in the office.
The first "On" topic for this blog is 'being right'. It is an interesting thing being right. It is something we all think we are, but are often unsure or unable to verbalize what we are right about.
I've often said "Everything I believe is right." I stand by that statement. Everything I do believe is correct. If it wasn't correct I wouldn't believe it. I would change my mind and believe something else. Then, again, everything I believed would be correct.
When I tell people this, they often think me smug. "How can you say that?" they would ask. To which I reply, "What do you believe, fundamentally believe, that is incorrect?" Generally I get a hem or a haw from this, but think about it. What is it that you believe is wrong? A better question is: If it's wrong, why do you believe it?
You see, when I tell people this, they think it's the same as me saying that I'm right and they are wrong. Also, it can be thought that my believing I'm right makes me inflexible or narrow minded. Neither can be further from the truth!
First, my believing in something is never contingent upon what others believe. In a real sense, I doesn't matter to me what people believe (other than my family and a few select friends). Whether or not you are right or wrong in your beliefs is irrelevant to why or how I believe.
Second, and this may be hard to believe but it is true, if you can convince me that something I believe is wrong, then I WILL change my mind. My goal isn't in being inflexible or thinking that I am perfect. No, my goal is to be right in everything I believe. If I am convinced to be wrong then I will change. At which point, I can say again, that I am right about what I believe.
So, I'm right. The cool thing is, so are you. However, when our opinions disagree, that is where the fun begins.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
A Simple Philosophy
Hello World!
This is my first attempt at political blogging. In it, I'm going to write about topical issues, such as the War in Iraq, politics and society at large.
To bin me into a party would be difficult. I have, recently, voted Republican and could probably be considered a fiscal republican. However, I'm not even near being Republican on most social issues.
If asked, I'd say I'm some kind of libertarian. Not one of those nutty libertarians that smoke dope, join militias and ignore state speed limits. No. More like what I understand as a Jeffersonian Liberal.
I believe that the government should stay out of our lives and our wallets, and I mean it. Tons of people say that, but don't mean it.
Right wingers want government out of our lives, but they think that people can't be trusted with their own judgment or bodies (re: illicit drugs, prostitution, and abortion).
Left wingers think that people should be left to their own devices but only some of the time and only some people (re: right wing radio should be balanced, rich people should be taxed higher, and businesses are mostly evil).
I kinda think that, in part, both have decent ideas. Neither follows through with them, and neither have the courage of their own convictions.
Over the course of this blog, I'd like to discuss these ideas, philosophies and beliefs.
To sum up, my political beliefs can be boiled down to a simple statement: Never vote for a tax increase; and never, ever, under any circumstance trust a draft dodger!
This is my first attempt at political blogging. In it, I'm going to write about topical issues, such as the War in Iraq, politics and society at large.
To bin me into a party would be difficult. I have, recently, voted Republican and could probably be considered a fiscal republican. However, I'm not even near being Republican on most social issues.
If asked, I'd say I'm some kind of libertarian. Not one of those nutty libertarians that smoke dope, join militias and ignore state speed limits. No. More like what I understand as a Jeffersonian Liberal.
I believe that the government should stay out of our lives and our wallets, and I mean it. Tons of people say that, but don't mean it.
Right wingers want government out of our lives, but they think that people can't be trusted with their own judgment or bodies (re: illicit drugs, prostitution, and abortion).
Left wingers think that people should be left to their own devices but only some of the time and only some people (re: right wing radio should be balanced, rich people should be taxed higher, and businesses are mostly evil).
I kinda think that, in part, both have decent ideas. Neither follows through with them, and neither have the courage of their own convictions.
Over the course of this blog, I'd like to discuss these ideas, philosophies and beliefs.
To sum up, my political beliefs can be boiled down to a simple statement: Never vote for a tax increase; and never, ever, under any circumstance trust a draft dodger!
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