This blog has gone through many incarnations.
Just as thought and belief are themselves constantly evolving, so has this blog re-imagined itself in bits and pieces and all at once. I've always known what I'd wanted it to be, but sometimes putting the message in its true form is the most difficult part.
I don't expect any more such large-scale restructuring to occur. Here, for better or for worse, we are.
But where are we?
Academia is going to hell.
This is not news for many of you, especially those who've gone through secondary schooling in the past few years; the simple fact is that the arts of logic and reason are being subsumed by the rhetoric of feelings and emotion. In truth, we need balance.
This is something I'll expand on later. In the future I'll also present the Rule of Exclusion, but for now take it by my word that the complete loss of one art in favor of another is a terrible evil.
Even the mainstream media has stopped fact-checking and political leaders can shoot off unsourced comments without so much as the blink of an eye.
It's natural for each generation to think the world is falling apart, and it's just as natural for the next generation to take things too far by their forefathers' estimations.
You're here, I assume, because I don't really have to sell you on the value of logic and reason. But if you're one of those precious few who can still be swayed to my position, I implore you to stick around and see if what I have to say doesn't resonate with the part of your mental faculties you've never been forced to use. In there, in academia, you can justify yourself with anecdotes. Out here it's a crucible and it's heating up for you.
As we'll later learn, there's nothing more important than being flexible. So stretch a little.
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