Published on February 18th, 2010.
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Sometimes I'm asked why this isn't a
blog. Why I don't have fancy little buttons at the end of each article saying "share this with Facebook!", or a section for how many people thought my
blog was totally cool. The most common request is for a comments section. Most of the time, I hate comments sections. I do not need to go through a list of the 20 different types of commenters to illustrate the fact I don't need them.
My main fear is just irrelevant posts. Stupid posts by artificial people. Let's say I write a political article, and the physical embodiment of why I don't vote appears - a man who is completely isolated to one point of view. He clutches his half-empty beer can, wipes his mustache, and goes to work on why I'm a communist because I say guns are unnecessary. These people do not care for the truth, they care for being
right. My fear is that they will unite with other like-minded people and post either: idiot comments back to each other, or idiot comments in a giant idiot-attack to me. Another smaller fear is dealing with comments that are simply impossible to deal with, such as the person who lets religion or morality get in the way of progress. (YouTube any pro-abortion video) I end up just coming off an asshole and it, quite frankly, makes me feel bad for taking the side of cold logic for warm morality.
You should have no worry that my articles have been challenged before. Every article you've read has had some point in it either challenged or built upon by someone who messaged me asking for clarification, or attempted to provide an out-right contradiction. I write these articles to educate people. My highest priority in writing an article is to keep them factual, followed by concise, and memorable. If I receive any challenge to my words, I happily accept as long as the person's overall tone is pleasant. (I will still accept, just not as happily, if their tone is miserable)
As for my policy in sharing my articles, you'd think I would start a blog and promote it if I were truly trying to educate people. It would seem, then, contradictory of me to keep my audience so narrow. In my life, I've always preferred
cult followings. Even though I'm a great leader when I need to be, I still consider myself introverted. I think this throws some bias towards cult followings. I don't think I would be as happy knowing some hip hop gangster even has the availability of my articles to read from, as opposed to 100 people I personally deem 'utopians' (lack of a better-fitting term) being truly enlightened.
My goal, and I admit this sounds egotistic, is to create little people like me. People who, when confronted with issues, will simply know the answers, know how to speak and write well. I believe that the personality of you, the reader, combined with the thoughts associated with my writings, creates a unique perspective that other people can benefit from. I have lived in a mostly-fatherless house, where my mother did most of the raising and was never particularly strict. I spent(d) a lot of time in front of a monitor and I don't have much of a libido.
This is probably not your life. Thus, a new perspective is born. You decide what to believe, ultimately, and that's what makes you yourself. You come to my dark little website and learn. I have no plans to add a web 3.0 design with flashy objects all over my site in hopes of attracting mind-numbed stumps to my writings, and I doubt that will ever change.
And please stop calling me a philosopher,
Vael Victus
