The First Post

This is the first post from The Brown Notebook and for those who are keeping track, it may be wise to provide a few caveats here:

1. This blog exists in the past as well as in the present and future
Since a lot of these posts are rewrites of initial drafts and notes taken in long hand in the aforementioned Brown Notebooks, I will date the post to the actual time of the writing/creation event occurred.

What this means to you is even though today is Thursday, September 27th, 2012, a lot of what is written will actually occur before this time. I have archives going back until about middle school, so depending on the post, it may date to 20 years before this blog was created.

2. I reserve the right to change my mind
As much as possible, for posterity and the rest of it, I will try to keep my crappy first-draft ideas intact, but sometimes I look back on an idea and am so horrified, I just have to let it go.

Also, I don’t ascribe to the notion that I can be on all of the time. I think it is ridiculous to think that myself or anyone can always be always clever and well-spoken, so in that vein, I will try not to over-edit when said editing runs in danger of ruining the context.

3. This blog will be politics free
Generally . . . ahem. On a good day I feel like we are truly a tribal hunter-gatherer people who have been subverted into a city-state construct that may have adversely affected the original intention. I understand the need for government, but don’t appreciate all of its precepts. I think people are generally good and will generally do the right thing when left to their own devices. I don’t decry organized religion, as the hope from above is the purest source. However, I do think it’s adherents can from time to time get caught in the nuance of philosophy and miss the more poignant teachings. See also Be Cool.

Also, I think my 20s were the time for political and religious conversions. If you don’t understand personal freedom and responsibility or don’t know Jesus, that’s too bad, but at this point I am probably not the one to take you there.

4. I write as an agent of no one
These writings are my own and I don’t write as the agent of any organization or ideology. These writings are not a part of my day job or the work I do for The Man. Any time I am quoting or referencing someone else’s work, I will do my best to provide the right level of attribution, but I do believe in the law of independent discovery, and since we are experiencing a lot of the same things, we may from time-to-time have the same ideas.

Having said that, I do write and submit content on several blogs, so I will occasionally do a shout-out to one of those articles, as appropriate and makes sense for the conversation.

I reserve the right to update, edit or delete this First Post at any time – and for any reason.

Ok, so without further ado, Dear Reader, here we go . . .